drugs and addiction
... Pip up, is now apparently of a lower status than Pip 2) Joe explains to Pip that he is “all wrong in these clothes.” Joe felt that it was unnatural for him to be in these clothes, in London, and before the new Pip, or for that matter, anywhere out of the forge. He accepts the fact that he is a common blacksmith and does not belong, or rather does not want to belong, in high society. He is best as a blacksmith, and a good blacksmith he will be. Unlike Pip, he looks to climb no social ladders nor dig up any riches. Pip even describes him as a man of “simple dignity.” For Joe to be in any other clothes than his forge dress is unnatural: “It ain’t that I am proud, but that I want to be right, as you shall never see me no more in these clothes. I’m wrong in these clothes. I’m half so much fault in me if you think of me in my forge dress, with my hammer in my hand, or even my pipe. You won’t find half so much fault in me if, supposing as you should ever wish to see me, you come and put your head in at the forge window and see Joe the blacksmith…sticking to the old work.” Joe wants to be who he truly is, unlike Pip, who wants to desperately climb away higher from his roots. 3) Herbert warns Pip not to love Estella: “That girl’s hard and haughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex.” Herbert further proclaims that Estella was...