Pip And Trabb's Relationship

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The anonymousness of the benefactor and the confusion or complications it brought into the story. The division and inhumanness of the division in classes of the character such as seen in the relationship between Pip (boy) and Estella, or Pip and Trabb’s boy. Focalization in cases of characters like Trabb’s boy and Orlick tend to make Pip seem somewhat of a snob, his ill treatment of Trabb’s boy throughout the book is hard to miss, especially since there was in reality very little difference between him and Trabb’s boy. As far as the book goes, had Magwitch not met Pip as a child, Pip could have possibly ended up living a very similar life to that of Trabb’s boy. Yet he seems to take on a very superior tone, insulting and demeaning, even after Trabb’s boy saves his life from Orlick, he still makes no effort to learn his name. His disrespectful characterization of Trabb’s boy as an ‘overgrown young man’, shows lack of true gratitude. The narration is autobiographical in structure giving off a feeling of distance between the narrator and the focalizer. The narrator uses an after-the-fact good-natured retrospect, filled with irony, humour and a distant voice which, at some few …show more content…

Inviting readers into the lives of the characters in different ways, both leaving the reader quite engaged, and entertained. The focalization in Mrs Dalloway allows the reader the liberty of getting into the heads of various people and get an in-depth exploration of the main characters, answering most of the questions that may arise in the readers’ mind as s/he reads. Seeing characters through their own eyes as well as the eyes of those around them, whereas Great Expectations keeps the reader inside Pip, looking out into the world around him. Seeing the world and the people around him as he sees them, the reader could potentially be left with many unanswered questions, engaging his/her

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