benefactor is, in fact, the convict that he had helped years ago, and not Miss Havisham as he had hoped, Pip began to feel all the more guilty. He increasingly associates one part of his life, that dealing with the convict and his guilt, with evil, and the other part, that dealing with Estella and Miss Havisham, with good.The conflict in Pip’s mind between good and evil appears in the form of a dichotomy between characters as well. Throughout the novel, Joe, the husband of Pip’s sister, a blacksmith, is the personification of all that is good. He is a gentle, benevolent man to whom Pip becomes apprenticed. Joe serves as the guiding force through much of the boy’s childhood, although Pip trades Joe for money and higher social class later in the novel.Dolge Orlick, on the other hand is the novel’s representation of pure evil. Ugly and oafish, Orlick harasses Pip as a child, and scares the boy into thinking that the devil lives in the shop. After fighting with Mrs. Joe over his taking a holiday, it is suspected that he shot Mrs. Joe and left her paralyzed. Later in the novel, Orlick colludes with Compeyson and attempts to kill Pip, after accusing him of coming between him and his woman. Pip is saved, however, by Herbert and a group of men, who scare away Orlick.Dickens, besides simply personifying good and evil, represents the conflict between good and evil in reality. When Mrs. Joe has a heated argument with Orlick over his holiday, Joe and he get into a physical fight, which Joe wins handily. In creating and describing this scene of conflict, Dickens is essentially describing which force he believes will win out in a conflict between good and evil. He believes that it is good that will eventually win out, represented by Joe, very similar to the outcome of the battle between Miss Pross and Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities.The last dichotomy between characters that is representative of the theme of ...
