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Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861) is usually read and even taught withthe relationship between Pip and Estella at sit center. This study shifts the focus to Pipand Joe relationship, viewing this relationship as another center for the novel. Unlikeother studies that relegate Joe to the margin, this study presents him not only as anothermajor character but also as Pip’s double. Dickens employs Joe to enable Pip take the tworoads when Pip’s road diverges to the blacksmith’s road and the gentleman’s road andvirtually enables Pip to know what the two roads have to offer him .Before Joe replaces Pip on one of the two orads, Dickens carefully paves the wayfor this replacement. First, Dickens begins the novel with Pip, as a boy, suffering fromidentity problems, opening the door for different possible readings of Pip’s identity.Second, he presents the young Pip and Joea s two characters who have much incommon: have the same good nature and interests, tied to one another by real friendship,treated alike by Mrs. Joe. Equally important, Pip and Joe unite physically three times inthe course of the novel to form one movign body when Joe carries Pip on three differentoccasions. The ending of the novel supports this new reading as Joe marries Biddy whoonce has been Pip’s choice for a wife. Moreover, they name their first child Pip, anindication that he is strongly related to the original Pip who is now a gentleman .

Metaphor of Robert , Road Not Taken , Charles Dickens

2012

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