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Jul 4, 2024 · Pip's benefactor in Great Expectations is Abel Magwitch. Magwitch's financial support allows Pip to rise in social status, but it also creates a moral conflict for Pip when he learns the...
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Who is Pip's benefactor? Magwitch is eventually revealed to be Pip’s benefactor, even though Pip has long assumed that Miss Havisham is the one funding his education. After Magwitch started making money as a sheep farmer, he became obsessed with using the money to transform Pip into a gentleman.
When, four years into his apprenticeship, a mysterious benefactor enables him to escape the working class, Pip moves to London as a teenager to become a gentleman. In his youth, he believes that his patron is Estella's guardian Miss Havisham, who wants to make him a suitable contender for her ward's hand. Once he moves to London, though his ...
Abel Magwitch, the convict, who escapes from a prison ship, whom Pip treats kindly, and who becomes Pip's benefactor. Magwitch uses the aliases "Provis" and "Mr. Campbell" when he returns to England from exile in Australia.
- Charles Dickens
- 1860
The convict, not Miss Havisham, is Pip’s secret benefactor. Pip is not meant to marry Estella at all. With a crestfallen heart, Pip hears that the convict is even now on the run from the law, and that if he is caught, he could be put to death.
Pip is twenty-three, and he and Herbert have moved to apartments in the Temple. One stormy night Pip hears footsteps on the stairs and a terrifying stranger emerges. Pip is shocked as the man discloses that he is his benefactor, and that Jaggers is his agent.
Jaggers is not permitted to let Pip know who his benefactor is unless Magwitch chooses to reveal himself as the benefactor to Pip. Magwitch makes himself known to Pip Dickens continues his tale in about 1829, when Pip is 23 years old, Magwitch secretly returns to England under the name of "Provis".
