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Dickens Pip's character's importance to the plot of the novel

"Great Expectations" is paramount. Charles Dickens uses an

ongoing theme over the course of this novel. Dickens creates

Pip to be a possible prototype of his own and his father's

life. Pip's qualities are kept under wraps because the

changes in him are more important than his general

personality. Dickens created Pip to be a normal everyday

person that goes through many changes, which allows a

normal reader to relate and feel sympathetic towards Pip.

Dickens reveals character traits in Pip similar to both himself

and his father. John Dickens, Charles' father, worked as a

clerk and was careless with money. John was said to be a

good hearted man, however he had a prison record,

arrested for debt. All of these characteristics were also

shared by Pip in the novel "Great Expectations" (Priestley,

96). A bit of Charles can be seen after Wheatley-2 Pip and

Estella met. When Charles met Ellen Tarnan, "He......

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