Premium Content The Essence of Pip
By Emily Flynn - October 25, 2000
The forms that stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.
--Darwin, The Origin of the Species (1859)
Christopher Ricks poses the question, in his essay on Dickens' Great Expectations, "How does Pip [the novel's fictional narrator] keep our sympathy?" (Ricks 202). The first of his…
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