"is it personal weakness or something else that is chiefly to blame for what happens to a central character in one of the core texts?"
In Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, the young protagonist, Pip is decieved into believing in a far better life than the one he is living. On his way to this better life, Pip mistreats the people who should mean most to him and loses respect for his simple upbringing. Pips simple upbringing by his enraged mother is to blame for his lack of respect for his family, along with Miss Havishams and Estellas desire to make him feel like a peasant. Pips young mind absorbs everything around him and shouldn't be the blame for his actions. His actions are a result of the people surrounding him and the way they treat him.
It is through his sister and gaurdian, Mrs.Joe Gargery and her husband, Joe Gargery, this his youthful mind is molded. It is obvious in the earliest stages of the book that Pip does not accept Mrs.Gargery as a mother figure, in his......
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