Analysis of the book ‘Great Expectations’ composed by Charles Dickens reveals an aspect of family belonging, where Pip, the main character tries to live up to societies expectations of being a gentlemen. This can be seen where Magwitch tells Pip that his a gentleman, ‘Yes, Pip, dear boy, I’ve made a gentleman of you! It’s me wot has done it! I swore that time, sure as ever I earned a guinea, that guinea should go to you...his head so high that he could make a gentleman – and, Pip, you’re him!’. The use of high modality represented in the exclamation marks demonstrates Magwitch’s happiness in making Pip a gentleman, showing the personable nature of belonging giving the idea of the connection between Magwitch and Pip, also establishing the idea that fulfilling society’s expectations; therefore allowing him to feel like a ‘gentlemen’. It is plausible to say that living up to society’s expectations can lead you in fitting in and belong, if there is an absence in expectations, and individual is left to feel
Analysis of the book ‘Great Expectations’ composed by Charles Dickens reveals an aspect of family belonging, where Pip, the main character tries to live up to societies expectations of being a gentlemen. This can be seen where Magwitch tells Pip that his a gentleman, ‘Yes, Pip, dear boy, I’ve made a gentleman of you! It’s me wot has done it! I swore that time, sure as ever I earned a guinea, that guinea should go to you...his head so high that he could make a gentleman – and, Pip, you’re him!’. The use of high modality represented in the exclamation marks demonstrates Magwitch’s happiness in making Pip a gentleman, showing the personable nature of belonging giving the idea of the connection between Magwitch and Pip, also establishing the idea that fulfilling society’s expectations; therefore allowing him to feel like a ‘gentlemen’. It is plausible to say that living up to society’s expectations can lead you in fitting in and belong, if there is an absence in expectations, and individual is left to feel