The Axis Of Desire Holding Pip an‎d Magwitch InDickens s Great Expectations(Part Iii )In Terms Of Greimas s Actantialmodel : A Study In Literary Discourse

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Part Three of Dickens s Great Expectations, as a phase of the protagonist s life, summarizes the story of another special character in GE,that is Abel Magwitch, as an impressing actant in the protagonist’s life. Magwitch, as Miss Havisham and Pip, has his own expectation created out of actions and roles done by other actants in the text . He is a remarkable man so filled with gratitude over a small incident in the past that he devotes his life to repaying the small boy who helped him. In short, Magwitch’s expectation is to make Pip gentleman in a full sense and so his expectation is great .Magwitch’s great expectation is simply a revenge, as that of Miss Havisham.His revenge was against the crooked social system with judges only by appearance and circumstantial evidence and not by evidence based on facts. That is why he spent most of his life in Australia which is miles and miles away from England and separated by two oceans. In spite of the truth that anyone who is sent off there is not expected to be seen again, Magwitch has great expectation to adventure and risk his life just to see Pip as a gentleman and to repay the kindness that Pip and no one else had shown him throughout his life.

The Axis Of Desire , Holding Pip , Magwitch InDickens , Great Expectations , Terms Of Greimas

2017

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