【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 d violence of his sister and in the exhortations of Uncle Pumblechook. So Pip is timid and sensitive. However, Joe, a blacksmith, his brotherinlaw who is also a victim of Mrs. Joe?s temper, takes good care of him. He treats Pip as his friend and gives him sincerity and fort. Although they are not wealthy, Pip was innocent and kind. And his dream is being a blacksmith like his brotherinlaw in the future, which will insure his life. On Christmas Eve, Pip sits on the gravestone of his parents and crying, suddenly he was seized by a convict, a “fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his left leg” (2, ).8 The convict Magwitch threats him to bring him food and a file. Despite his fear, he treats Magwitch with kindness. Even acknowledged the police are searching for convict, Pip worries for him. He said to Joe, “I hope, Joe, we shan?t find them.”9 This reveals that Pip is innocent。 he not only loves Joe who loves him much, but also cares about those who are in trouble. Pip?s innocence and his love for Joe are also revealed through his inner conflict about whether he should tell he theft to his real friend Joe or not: My state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated, did not impel me to frank disclosure… But I loved Joe perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me loved himand, as to him, my inner self was not so easily posed… The fear of losing Joe?s confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimneycorner at night staring drearily at my for ever lost panion and friend, tied up my tongue… In a word I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be () Here we see a real character Pip, who is simple and innocent, timid and kind. However, there is a change in Pip?s inner heart after being invited to Satis house, where he encounters Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter, Estella. Pip is luckily invited to play at Satis house, where is exactly as it was years ago. Miss Havisham was abandoned by her fianc233。 on her wedding day, so over the years she had been living on her wedding day. Time seems stationary for her. She also asks her adopted daughter Estella to play with Pip. Pip falls in love with beautiful and arrogant Estella. But Estella always mocks him for his coarse hands and thick boost when they are together. During the time of getting along with the rich, Pip gradually lured by the upper class, and began to hate his coarse hands and thick boost, began to ashamed to face the world, ashamed of his own ignorance of the world and shallow. Late, he bees the apprentice of Joe, the blacksmith, his early dear friend. But now Pip even thinks his old friend is shallow ashamed of him in his bottom heart. One day, the lawyer of Miss Havisham, Mr. Jaggers, tells Pip that a person, who refused to give his name, is paying for him and wants him to go to London to bee an upperclass gentleman. “Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same.”11 Pip?s desire to improve his social starts is increasingly intense, as a result, he is no longer as innocent as before, he departed from his inherit good nature. Pip leaves the hometown, and goes to the desirable metropolis London. He begins to enter the gentleman society, and makes friends with them. As such, Pip?s ego grows tremendously and he looks down upon his mon but kind and loyal friends from his childhoodJoe and Biddy. Since then, Pip lost his original simple and virtue, and picks up a bad habit of dude. In London, Pip lives a life of upper class。 his vanity makes him arrogant and selfish. When Joe gets to London from country to inform him of Miss Havisham?s messages, Pip is ashamed of admitting their relationship. He is thinking: “If I could have kept him away by paying money, I certainly would have paid money.” 12 At this point, the person who is faced of Joe now is no longer the former Pip, and poor Joe is embarrassed because of Pip?s indifferent “courtesy” and his own inability to find “a suitable place to put his hat”. Joe even calls Pip “sir”, which indicates the distance between Joe and Pip. They are no longer intimate like before. In London, although Pip bees a gentleman, he is less and less confident, for he begins to examine his own conscience. However, everything is changed when Pip?s benefactor is appeared. He is no one but the convict Magwitch. Pip?s change in his attitude towards Magwitch is a significant symbol of his regaining conscience. Magwitch? s unexpected return from abroad is like a bolt from the blue crushed Pip?s gold dream, which makes him realized that his benefactor is not Miss Havisham but the convict he once helped and Miss Havisham is not intend to bestow Estella on him at all. This matter, like a lightning, makes him recovery in moral, makes him realize that he has rebelled against Joe and his good nature and bees the significant milestones of the maturity of Pip. Pip realizes that all his Great Expectations are built upon the money from a convict and then changes his view on the social status. Now he bees disappointed, he is no longer snobbish or arrogant. After a fierce fight in his conscience, Pip realizes Magwitch is important for him. He cannot abandon him. When Pip learns that Magwitch risks his life returning to England to see the gentleman made by him, he takes care of Magwitch though he dislikes him because Magwitch looks frightening and also helps him find a covert place to avoid being discovered by others and plans to send him abroad to help him escape. Gradually he knows that Estella is the daughter of Mr. Jaggers? house keeper and Magwitch. However, the plan to smuggle Magwitch is failed for they a