How Pip Changes

Pip, was the best name that Philip Pirrip could pronounce as a child. Growing up, Pip didn't have a mother or a father to look after him, they died when he was younger, and this caused his older sister Mrs.Joe to have to look after him. Throughout the story, Pip has a large number of women who influence him in many different ways. First there is his sister, Mrs. Joe, then Biddy, Mrs.Havisham, and Estella. They all changed his life in different ways, yet they all contribute to how Pip is as a person.

I think the best person to begin with would probably be Mrs.Joe. She brought Pip up from being a child. She brought him up "by hand". She always bragged about how she took such good care of him, when in reality, she beat him, and treat him terribly.
"I should have been good enough for you; shouldn't I, Biddy?"

Throughout the story, Biddy was probably my favourite character, she may not have always knew where she stood with Pip, yet she wasn't rude to him when he put her down, she showed wisdom and currage, and I think that's a big thing to accomplish. She's strong, and she always loved Pip, but in the end she knew she could never have him, so she went back to Joe, which in a way, Pip was

The next character who influences Pip is Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham is a bitter old woman, who half a centuary ago was left at the alter by her husband to be. She still wears the yellowing wedding gown that she wore on that day. She is a cruel harted woman, that wants to reek havock on the entire male population. When Pip is told by his sister and Uncle Pumblechook, that he has been asked to go to Satis House to "play" he is confused as he wonders why an old creepy woman would want him at her house. Miss Havisham was very dramatic and everything she did was staged to try and get sympathy from Pip.

"What do I
"play, play, play!" "For a moment, with the fear of my sister's working me before my eyes."

He feels like he has to listen to Miss Havisham and do everything she orders or it may get back to his sister, who would then beat him.

Throughout the chapters, Miss Havisham tries to get Pip to fall in love with Estella, so she can then rip his heart out, and cause havock on all man kind.

Miss Havisham leads Pip on all the way through the story, as she makes him believe that she is his benifactor. When Pip finds out, he is furious, yet, he still goes to see her at Satis House.

When she is cought alight by the fire, Pip is able to kill the flames, but Miss Havisham doesn't survive. The weight and the material of the dresses back then must have been so heavy and thick. It would have clung to your skin.

Miss Havisham was a crude, old, cold hearted woman, who brought even her daughter up to hate everything. Towards the end of the book, she did start to come around, and accept all the horrible things she had done. I think we tend to begin to like her at the end of the book, because she realizes what a horrible person she was all