Childhood fantasy, pip imagines what his life is going to be like. He doesn't see what this is going to require of him. This is the classic child mind.
Especially since orphaned, wrong sense of feeling unwanted.
The average life isn't good enough for pip.
Am I wicked? Am I a good person? Have I deserved what I got? What is normal?
Doesn't have normal expectations. He has grand expectations and fears.
Pip tries on elders to find a mentor.
Mag witch is the threatening outside world. Church graveyard. Wickedness, animal need to survive. Threat of abandonment if he doesn't satisfy mag witche's needs.
Haveshem is a play on words: have a sham. Or having shame. Witch like figure. Symbolizes horrible decay and unfulfilled dreams, or shining promise and the potential of what could be. Fairy godmother. Left at the alter, everything in her house is left like it was that day. Representing crushed hope. Loss.
Estella is trained to be a heartbreaker of men. Adopted. Pip loves her.
A pip is a seed. The acorn that could become the oak, or blow away in the wind.
Male desire to rise in the world.
Joe gargery and Jagger's could both be father figures. Pip identifies with each one, both are different sides of morality.
Joe is a blacksmith, derives power but doesn't use it.
Jagger's knows things about people, blackmails for power.
Joe lives by feeling. Looks at every situation as a whole and goes by his heart. Romantic. Not a success financially, does have a rich emotional life. Content, a good person.
Jagger's lives by the letter of the law. Cold, no emotion. Analysis of everything.
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