Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations"

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"Charles Dickens, in his novel Great Expectations, explores as one of his major themes the psychological effect on the individual of the desire for property, money, and material possessions. This research will analyze this influence on Joe, Mr. Joe, Pumblechook, Miss Havisham, Estella, Pip, and Wemmick.

Joe is one of the least affected by the desire for property and money. He is a down-to-earth character who is happier with his lot and work and life than most of the other characters, and thus he does not have to blindly seek material things in order to establish some sort of money-oriented self-esteem. As Angus Calder writes in the Introduction to the novel, it was Pip who underestimated the worth of Joe's character in the beginning, only later coming to understand the simple goodness of the man: "Joe, who at first, (Pip) confesses, 'I always treated as a ... "

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