2006-09-01 04:25:49 · 4 answers · asked by Flora Butter 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It's both. But there is a sort of moral in the story. Pip helps a man and is given help in return. But the criminal he helps wrongly assumes that turning Pip into a "gentleman" is helping him. Pip, wrongly assumes that Miss Havisham is his benefactor, rather than some criminal he met by accident. He is also influenced by the snobbish notion that he is in love with Estelle - when she is just a spoiled brat. I forget the name now of the other girl in the story - but she is "ordinary" and he dismisses her - but she is much more caring and he doesn't appreciate her as he should. I've always thought a modern version of the story could be made in to a movie, there are so many moral dilemmas. People still make the same mistakes that Pip made in Victorian times in the 21st century. Dicken's tried to demonstrate many points - I think either he failed or not many people have read the book. I think the other girl was "Biddy"? Or was that Joe's wife? Anyway, great book - great observations on life by Dickens - and still relevant today.
2006-09-01 04:48:49 · answer #1 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think all of Dickens' novels were commentaries on the society of the time.
2006-09-01 11:33:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-01 11:35:36 · answer #3 · answered by imamonkeyoohaooha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
great deal see wikipedia.org
2006-09-01 11:32:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋