Great Expectations: Lessons on Life and Love :: Great Expectations Essays

outstanding Expectations  Lessons on Life and have sex         Great Expectations is merely timeless. It is about all the things that life is about how relatives preempt be loving, or abusive, how people can choose their experience families how a woman might be driven to destroy her child, or reserve her child away how people may be corrupt, may be redeemed how your upbringing defines your quality, and how you may rise above or pinch that definition and how, finally, love is a choice.             Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, is a moral book, without any clear moral directives. Its language is beautiful, its plot compelling, its characters heterogeneous and complete. muckle, Dickens tells us, ar non always what they have the appearance _or_ semblance. Not simply because theyve draped or hidden or re happen upond themselves, like Magwitch not only because those who seem mo st beautiful may be, in fact, most terrible, like Estella. People are not always what they seem because people are neer only one thing. The wretched Mrs. Joe becomes nearly lovable after her accidental injury Mrs. Havisham melts (before she burns) Magwitch in trouble terrorizes Pip, merely in prosperity is his benefactor Wemmicks character is dependent on his location there is a hint that dismantle Estella, at last, is not as brightly cold as her name and nature suggests and, of division, Pip is at archetypal good, and then snobbish and profligate, and then, finally, good. money changes everything except human nature. Human beings change not for the better, and not for the worse, and not permanently. People change, then change back. Their changes do not necessarily secure them happy. That is the human condition.             That was a memorable day for me, says Pip, after first see Satis House, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. gauge one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a moment of the long set up of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Great Expectations is no less instructive for not being morally definite. That first link will change you, as the circumstances of your childhood will. It is your own duty (I believe Dickens says) to change yourself inwardly as you are changed outwardly.