Achieving Measure of Contentment in Charles Dickens Great...

Achieving Measure of Contentment in Charles Dickens Great Expectations Works Cited Not Included Great Expectations is a novel that not only satires the issues of Victorian society, such as status and crime, but additionally centres on the rites of passage for a child living in that society. It is through this central focus on rites of passage that Dickens is able to convey to the reader messages about the serious issues he felt so strongly about. One such issue is an issue that concerns all humans. It is the desire for contentment in ones†¦show more content†¦The first of these, I believe, is of good and bad values. A value is a moral principle or belief that is important to you. Factors included in Pips search for good values are the pressure of peers, money and confusion. As a young boy, the life Pip leads at the forge with Joe and Mrs Joe dictates the course of his life. It is all he has ever known, and therefore it is all he can ever dream of aspiring to. At this point of the novel, Pip is satisfied with all his life represents and all his life will lead to: he is content. The values Pip learns at the forge come from Joe, who teaches moral simplicity and altruism through his own honest personality. Pip describes him to be: a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow- a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness. (Page 6). These few lines depict how Pip admires Joe as someone that has the values of a meek, self-sacrificing person; that has achieved their own happiness through living good values. Building up Joe as a character has been achieved well here by Dickens, as he uses numerous synonyms to generate Joes moral temperament. Pip likens Joe to the ancient heroic figure of Hercules portraying that, as a blacksmith, Pip recognises Joe to be physically strong, but also in weakness indicates that Joe has a psychological or behavioural flaw or weakness: he isShow MoreRelatedStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pages524 Creating an Ethical Organizational Culture 525 Creating a Positive Organizational Culture 527 Spirituality and Organizational Culture 529 What Is Spirituality? 529 †¢ Why Spirituality Now? 530 †¢ Characteristics of a Spiritual Organization 530 †¢ Achieving a Spiritual Organizat ion 531 †¢ Criticisms of Spirituality 531 Global Implications 532 Summary and Implications for Managers 533 S A L Self-Assessment Library What’s the Right Organizational Culture for Me? 512 glOBalization! Face Culture