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Great Expectations Character Map

Michael Sebastian

Pip

  • Main protagonist
  • Kindness inherited by Joe
  • Ambitious and longing for success
  • Chases wealth and Estella
  • Immature to mature over the course of the story

Importance

Pip is important to the plot because he is the main character, and the whole book is written around him and his "great expectations."

Importance

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“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 wrong.”

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Mrs. Joe

  • Tyrannical and power-hungry
  • Abusive, overbearing, and harassing
  • Controls Pip and Joe more or less for comfort knowing they won't leave her

Importance

Mrs. Joe is important to the plot because she helps raise Pip, introduces him to Havisham, and becomes an emotional event for Pip, Joe, and others when she passes away.

Quote

"People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking questions. Now you get along to bed!"

Joe

  • Kind
  • Stays true to his character
  • Blacksmith
  • Uneducated to educated over the course of the story (via Biddy)

Importance

Joe is important to the plot because he helps raise Pip, cares and helps him on whatever he is doing, and serves as the fatherly figure and somewhat as a motivation to become a gentleman.

Quote

“There’s one thing you may be sure of, Pip... namely, that lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn’t ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same. Don’t you tell no more of them, Pip. That ain’t the way to get out of being common, old chap.”

Biddy

  • Kind and helpful
  • Intelligent
  • Teaches Pip and Joe how to read and write

Biddy

Importance

Biddy is important to the plot because she takes care of the Gargery's after the attack on Mrs. Joe, and also teaches Pip and Joe how to read and write.

Quote

"Oh, there are many kinds of pride... Pride is not all of one kind…[Joe] may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect."

Herbert Pocket

  • Simple but loyal
  • Friends with Pip
  • Provides Pip work towards the end of the story for all he has done

Importance

Herbert Pocket is important to the plot because he serves as a good friend to Pip along with a person to check ins with (like managing money, doing the right thing, etc.)

Quote

"No man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner... no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself."

Matthew Pocket

  • Cousin to Miss Havisham
  • Warned her about Compeyson
  • Herbert's father and Pip's, Startop's, and Drummle's tutor

Matthew Pocket

Importance

Matthew Pocket is important to the plot because he educates Pip and tries to tell Miss Havisham that Compeyson was a bad person.

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Miss Havisham

  • Vengeful and harsh
  • Life runs around the fact that Compeyson ditched her
  • Regrets her harshness towards Pip by what she has done to him over the story

Importance

Miss Havisham is important to the plot because she raised Estella to the way she is, acted as a driver for Pip to become a gentleman, and provided Pip with useful people for acclomplishing his expectations.

Quote

“I’ll tell you... what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!”

Wemmick

  • Jaggers's clerk
  • Professional and somewhat happy outside of his work
  • Helps Pip to become what he is at the end of the story

Importance

Wemmick is important to the plot because he helps Pip in becoming a gentleman and assists him in Magwitch's escape.

Importance

Quote

“Choose your bridge, Mr. Pip... and take a walk upon your bridge, and pitch your money into the Thames over the centre arch of your bridge, and you know the end of it. Serve a friend with it, and you may know the end of it too—but it’s a less pleasant and profitable end.”

Jaggers

  • Lawyer and Pip's guardian
  • Professional yet lives a gloomy life
  • Helps Pip to become what he is at the end of the story

Importance

Jaggers is important to the plot because he becomes Pip's guardian and helps Pip in becoming a gentleman.

Importance

Quote

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”

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Molly

  • Deeply scarred wrists
  • Murdered a woman out of jealousy
  • Jaggers's maid
  • Estella's mother

Molly

Importance

Molly is important to the plot because she was discovered to be the mother of Estella.

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Estella

  • Main plot driver
  • Beautiful; essentially Pip's crush
  • Cold and heartless
  • Pip's main motive to become what he is at the end of the story

Importance

Estella is important to the plot because she drives Pip into becoming a gentleman and chasing wealth.

Importance

Quote

“But you said to me... ’God bless you, God forgive you!’ And if you could say that to me then, you will not hesitate to say that to me now—now, when suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

Magwitch

  • Main plot driver
  • Criminal
  • Escaped and worked his way out of imprisonment
  • Generous in giving money to Pip for him to become someone he is not

Importance

Magwitch is important to the plot because he is the benefactor to Pip and the whole reason he was able to be a gentleman. He was also discovered to be the father to Estella.

Quote

“And then, dear boy, it was a recompense to me, look’ee here, to know in secret that I was making a gentleman... I says to myself, ‘I’m making a better gentleman nor ever you’ll be! … If I ain’t a gentleman, nor ain’t got no learning, I’m the owner of such. All on you owns stock and land; which on you owns a brought-up London gentleman?’”

Compeyson

  • Main antagonist
  • Broke Miss Havisham's heart
  • Led Magwitch to getting imprisoned
  • If it weren't for him, Pip would have a different life

Importance

Compeyson is important to the plot because it forces Magwitch into a rivalry and the reason he went to prison, became a herder, and provided Pip with money. He is also the reason Miss Havisham is the way she is.

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