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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is a study on the causes and effects of Pip?s ambition as seen in
Charles Dickens? Great Expectation. Pip has an ambition to become a gentleman.
Thus, the thesis writer is curious to know what are the causes of Pip?s ambition and
also what are the effects that ambition brings to him. The purpose of this thesis is to
find out the reasons of Pip?s ambition and also what are the effects that ambition
brings to him. To achieve her goal, the thesis writer uses literary approach such as
characterization and conflict. In order to support the analysis the thesis writer also use
the concept of gentleman in Victorian period and the concept of ambition to give clear
perspectives about condition at that time. There are three causes that makes Pip has an
ambition to be a gentleman, first is because of his poverty in his childhood, second is
because of the treatment of Miss Havisham and Estella, and the third is because his
love toward Estella. Pip?s ambition has two effects there are negative effect, his
snobbishness and also the positive effect, his realization. Finally, Pip realizes that he
cannot buy everything with money and what he has done all this time is wrong. Pip?s
realization makes him become a real gentleman in his life, because becoming a real
gentleman does not depend on how much money that someone have but more than
how he or she behaves in the society.