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    Pip, also known as Philip Pirrip, is the main character and narrator of Great Expectations. As the protagonist and focus of the bildungsroman, understanding Pip's character is key to understanding the novel. There are two Pips - Pip the narrator, who tells the story as an adult, and Pip the character, who experiences the events. As a character, Pip is idealistic and desires self-improvement, but his idealism sometimes leads him to perceive things narrowly and treat others poorly based on superficial values.

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    Pip, also known as Philip Pirrip, is the main character and narrator of Great Expectations. As the protagonist and focus of the bildungsroman, understanding Pip's character is key to understanding the novel. There are two Pips - Pip the narrator, who tells the story as an adult, and Pip the character, who experiences the events. As a character, Pip is idealistic and desires self-improvement, but his idealism sometimes leads him to perceive things narrowly and treat others poorly based on superficial values.

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    Pip, also known as Philip Pirrip, is the main character and narrator of Great Expectations. As the protagonist and focus of the bildungsroman, understanding Pip's character is key to understanding the novel. There are two Pips - Pip the narrator, who tells the story as an adult, and Pip the character, who experiences the events. As a character, Pip is idealistic and desires self-improvement, but his idealism sometimes leads him to perceive things narrowly and treat others poorly based on superficial values.

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    Pip Character

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    Pip, also known as Philip Pirrip, is the main character and narrator of Great Expectations. As the protagonist and focus of the bildungsroman, understanding Pip's character is key to understanding the novel. There are two Pips - Pip the narrator, who tells the story as an adult, and Pip the character, who experiences the events. As a character, Pip is idealistic and desires self-improvement, but his idealism sometimes leads him to perceive things narrowly and treat others poorly based on superficial values.

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    PIP- main character

    As a bildungsroman, Great Expectations presents the growth and development


    of a single character, Philip Pirrip, better known to himself and to the world as Pip.
    As the focus of the bildungsroman, Pip is by far the most important character
    in Great Expectations: he is both the protagonist, whose actions make up the main plot
    of the novel, and the narrator, whose thoughts and attitudes shape the reader’s
    perception of the story. As a result, developing an understanding of Pip’s character is
    perhaps the most important step in understanding Great Expectations.
    Because Pip is narrating his story many years after the events of the novel
    take place, there are really two Pips in Great Expectations: Pip the narrator and Pip
    the character—the voice telling the story and the person acting it out. Dickens takes
    great care to distinguish the two Pips, imbuing the voice of Pip the narrator with
    perspective and maturity while also imparting how Pip the character feels about what
    is happening to him as it actually happens. This skilfully executed distinction is
    perhaps best observed early in the book, when Pip the character is a child; here, Pip
    the narrator gently pokes fun at his younger self, but also enables us to see and feel
    the story through his eyes.

    As a character, Pip’s two most important traits are his immature, romantic
    idealism and his innately good conscience. On the one hand, Pip has a deep desire
    to improve himself and attain any possible advancement, whether educational,
    moral, or social. His longing to marry Estella and join the upper classes stems from
    the same idealistic desire as his longing to learn to read and his fear of being
    punished for bad behaviour: once he understands ideas like poverty, ignorance, and
    immorality, Pip does not want to be poor, ignorant, or immoral. Pip the narrator
    judges his own past actions extremely harshly, rarely giving himself credit for good
    deeds but angrily castigating himself for bad ones.

    As a character, however, Pip’s idealism often leads him to perceive the world
    rather narrowly, and his tendency to oversimplify situations based on superficial
    values leads him to behave badly toward the people who care about him. When Pip
    becomes a gentleman, for example, he immediately begins to act as he thinks a
    gentleman is supposed to act, which leads him to treat Joe and Biddy snobbishly
    and coldly.

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