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Take various examples from the novel, to Demonstrate Pip’s decline into snobbery and his notable recovery towards the end of the novel.
Great Expectations is a Christian morality tale of a young man’s fall from innocence into the egotism of snobbery and thence to redemption through selflessness. This novel shows us Dickens’ view of what money can achieve in society and what money may also lead to and bring about. Pip’s urge to better himself is triggered off by many reasons, these reasons corrupt him and make his descent into the egotism of snobbery far worse, as the foundations of his beliefs are corrupted. ... Pip becomes a slave to his own great expectations, and snobbery almost engulfs him.
Young Pip is an orphan living with his shrewish and twisted sister and her kindly husband Joe. Brought up under very bad circumstances he is desperate to escape from his caged and miserable life. ... Dickens shows a very obvious difference in Pip’s guardians and this in itself is symbolic as they demonstrate in caricatures, the two different sects that the people in the book belong to. The two basic categories that people fall into are; the materialistic and; those who understand the value of material possessions and have come to realise that aims in life should be more fulfilling than accumulating wealth. The beliefs of these two types of people develop one of the basic underlining issues in Great Expectations, that is snobbery.
At the time when Great Expectations was set and also still in the world today, snobbery falls into two main categories; upper-class snobbery and middle-class snobbery. Upper-class snobbery is where a person who has been brought up in the ‘proper’ way, (in the upper-classes), looks down upon someone who has been brought up in less fortunate circumstances (in the lower or middle-classes). Middle-class snobbery is where someone rich looks down upon someone who is not as wealthy. ... When Pip tries to ascend to a higher position he finds that to try to cross the invisible social barriers between the classes is nearly impossible and even though he does manage it in various parts of the novel he is always set aside from others.
Approximate Word count = 1766
Approximate Pages = 7.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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