Wrapping Up Great Expectations

     I believe that the overall theme of the novel Great Expectations is of responsibility. This is a consistent problem for Pip, and is used throughout the entire novel. Everybody at some point in their life struggles internally, whether it be over a label or over indecision. Pip feels both and represents the many possibilities of things that can happen to an ordinary person. I seriously think that Dickens created Pip to teach readers how to respond in situations, and how to have responsibility. Even though all of the horrible things that happened to Pip probably won't happen to an ordinary person, Pip represents many predicaments and instructs how to deal with each of them. From reading this book, I got that you need to have responsibility to gain respect and that there's a boundary where you need enough pride to take this responsibility, but not so much that you seem cocky and rude. Though it's quite straight forward, this is something you need to do and are capable of doing at any time/place. There's no need to wait until someone is brutal towards you, start demonstrating your reliability by being responsible all of the time.