Love in Great Expectations

Webster’s dictionary defines love in many different ways, “A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance. To have a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward (a person) (Webster, love)”. In Great Expectations, Pip is going through maturity, and is always undergoing maturity. We find that Pip is always longing for friends, family, and for love. Love …

…He is capable of loving and knowing when love has begun and ended. But, like all good things (like love and this paper) they must come to an end until another good thing comes along; another wonderful girl- a girl which loves Pip for Pip, as he does for her. Work Citied WWWebster Dictionary “Love” Merriam-Webster, Incorporated 1999 < http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=love> (26 November 1999) Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York. Penguin Classic, 1996