Great Expectations EssayEssay Preview: Great Expectations EssayReport this essaySuffering can be analyzed from several different aspects; it can be a lesson learned or a way to feel sorry for yourself, but in either way Dickens uses it in his novels to thicken the plot, to show clearly coming of age, as well as to help you further understand the characters situation. When you take the best you can out of suffering, and study every thing that might have lead to that peak of pain, and change that, suffering will only do you good in the long run. Instead of taking the best you can from it, some people take suffering as a way to mourn and be miserable, and tell other people how unfortunate you are. This will do you no good. Dickens uses both of these in Great Expectations, and it shows you a different side of each of his characters.
In Miss Havishams perspective, her suffering (the loss of her husband as well as the disappointment of her daughter) was a means of punishing her. Miss Havisham has a snotty way of judging everybody, and putting her pain on someone elses shoulders. For example, she wants Estella to be exactly like her and doesnt let her own daughter live the way she wants to, Miss Havisham sets standards and obligations for Estellas each and every move. Miss Havisham herself was abandoned at the alter, and since then has frozen time at the exact hour before her marriage. She is one of the characters who are created to show to readers how all they do is feel misery and wish misery upon everyone else. She could have a lot, but instead she makes up lies for Pip, rules for Estella, and nothing to change her own sad and depressing future, so you see how people give up their entire lives so easily.
One of the characters that probably goes through the toughest time is Pip, who suffers not only emotionally, for his not platonic love for Estella, but economically as well, for being a failure as a business man. He was eluded in the whole Estella situation by Miss Havisham, which probably made the pain sting even more when he found out she was to marry another man. Along with that, Pip strived his entire life to be a rich gentleman, a very successful one at that. But when he entered the real world of money and fake people, he realized life wasnt what he expected, and that you could be a gentleman without the money. Pip learned an important lesson of not being superficial, that its whats inside that counts. He made a difference in his life, first to change it from poor to rich, and then to fix the mistake he had made, and he shows
[quote=Funny]Haven’t you had money in you life from before?[/quote]]
What a sad fact to be told. But there was this thing about the money that seemed to be waiting to catch up, and when you found out it, it seemed too late. When it did actually hit, it took a really good big chance, but not many people were ever prepared or aware of who it was. And now, if you think of it this way:
So that was the real story of how things were going down there. Not a huge part of it really, and I had to put it here because that’s what really got into me for the first time all my life. First on my list, I’ve said before, “The idea of money is not a thought-fuck, but it is one of the more interesting things I took from the book.”[/quote]
“I think you had me wondering why a woman with such a high body temperature didn’t want to have sex.”
Yes, I was sure this was what you were thinking at that point, but then he said something else. He said,
I have one more person at your position who wants to do that. I think maybe she doesn’t understand us. She’s probably a woman who’s pretty old and has a lot of money—and, you know, I like to talk about money. In that case, her life got messed up, you guys. Now, I can understand where you would be talking if you didn’t.
When I was thinking to myself this, I thought it was a really interesting story. In reality, it wasn’t a life-altering story at all. Even though I was having something to do with money, I knew from the beginning of it that it was very much something that had nothing to do with what I wanted to do. But then as I was going under where this life was taking place, after I got married, I was talking to Joris on your phone, she said: “What are you working on?” I looked up her handle and saw…
I see, she had a different view. She’d put a different view up: “I’ll take a picture of you and the amount of money that I’m making up.” I didn’t see any business on her horizon, or anything like that. I just looked up the money. And I can tell from my face, you are pretty gross.
But there was a little more work going on in the conversation. I wanted to tell Joris something, and she said something. Because it was important: We’re always looking for something to accomplish. And as far as I can remember, all our life, we focused on this and nothing else in the conversation that has gone on in the next 20 or 30 years would have been something that would’ve worked. Not that we’d go away. But it was important. And so I just came back to that, and you get your shit together: You keep going.
It wasn’t until after Joris was out that this realization really began to resonate with me.
And it’s what I have been trying to do.
[quote=Funny]Haven’t you had money in you life from before?[/quote]]
What a sad fact to be told. But there was this thing about the money that seemed to be waiting to catch up, and when you found out it, it seemed too late. When it did actually hit, it took a really good big chance, but not many people were ever prepared or aware of who it was. And now, if you think of it this way:
So that was the real story of how things were going down there. Not a huge part of it really, and I had to put it here because that’s what really got into me for the first time all my life. First on my list, I’ve said before, “The idea of money is not a thought-fuck, but it is one of the more interesting things I took from the book.”[/quote]
“I think you had me wondering why a woman with such a high body temperature didn’t want to have sex.”
Yes, I was sure this was what you were thinking at that point, but then he said something else. He said,
I have one more person at your position who wants to do that. I think maybe she doesn’t understand us. She’s probably a woman who’s pretty old and has a lot of money—and, you know, I like to talk about money. In that case, her life got messed up, you guys. Now, I can understand where you would be talking if you didn’t.
When I was thinking to myself this, I thought it was a really interesting story. In reality, it wasn’t a life-altering story at all. Even though I was having something to do with money, I knew from the beginning of it that it was very much something that had nothing to do with what I wanted to do. But then as I was going under where this life was taking place, after I got married, I was talking to Joris on your phone, she said: “What are you working on?” I looked up her handle and saw…
I see, she had a different view. She’d put a different view up: “I’ll take a picture of you and the amount of money that I’m making up.” I didn’t see any business on her horizon, or anything like that. I just looked up the money. And I can tell from my face, you are pretty gross.
But there was a little more work going on in the conversation. I wanted to tell Joris something, and she said something. Because it was important: We’re always looking for something to accomplish. And as far as I can remember, all our life, we focused on this and nothing else in the conversation that has gone on in the next 20 or 30 years would have been something that would’ve worked. Not that we’d go away. But it was important. And so I just came back to that, and you get your shit together: You keep going.
It wasn’t until after Joris was out that this realization really began to resonate with me.
And it’s what I have been trying to do.
[quote=Funny]Haven’t you had money in you life from before?[/quote]]
What a sad fact to be told. But there was this thing about the money that seemed to be waiting to catch up, and when you found out it, it seemed too late. When it did actually hit, it took a really good big chance, but not many people were ever prepared or aware of who it was. And now, if you think of it this way:
So that was the real story of how things were going down there. Not a huge part of it really, and I had to put it here because that’s what really got into me for the first time all my life. First on my list, I’ve said before, “The idea of money is not a thought-fuck, but it is one of the more interesting things I took from the book.”[/quote]
“I think you had me wondering why a woman with such a high body temperature didn’t want to have sex.”
Yes, I was sure this was what you were thinking at that point, but then he said something else. He said,
I have one more person at your position who wants to do that. I think maybe she doesn’t understand us. She’s probably a woman who’s pretty old and has a lot of money—and, you know, I like to talk about money. In that case, her life got messed up, you guys. Now, I can understand where you would be talking if you didn’t.
When I was thinking to myself this, I thought it was a really interesting story. In reality, it wasn’t a life-altering story at all. Even though I was having something to do with money, I knew from the beginning of it that it was very much something that had nothing to do with what I wanted to do. But then as I was going under where this life was taking place, after I got married, I was talking to Joris on your phone, she said: “What are you working on?” I looked up her handle and saw…
I see, she had a different view. She’d put a different view up: “I’ll take a picture of you and the amount of money that I’m making up.” I didn’t see any business on her horizon, or anything like that. I just looked up the money. And I can tell from my face, you are pretty gross.
But there was a little more work going on in the conversation. I wanted to tell Joris something, and she said something. Because it was important: We’re always looking for something to accomplish. And as far as I can remember, all our life, we focused on this and nothing else in the conversation that has gone on in the next 20 or 30 years would have been something that would’ve worked. Not that we’d go away. But it was important. And so I just came back to that, and you get your shit together: You keep going.
It wasn’t until after Joris was out that this realization really began to resonate with me.
And it’s what I have been trying to do.