Great Expectations Theme of Lies and Deceit

The world of Great Expectations revolves around the appearance of things: the appearance of happiness, the appearance of love, the appearance of beauty, the appearance of wealth, and the appearance of criminality. Society enforces strict boundaries between classes, lifestyles, and regions, making it nearly impossible for people to move between these designations, and, thus, forcing people to deceive society in order to gain mobility. Lies and deceit are the weapons used to attain dreams and to make an inflexible world, flexible.

1. Do lies influence Pip’s innocence or loss of innocence?
2. Why doesn’t Wemmick want to show Jaggers his Walworth side?
3. Are any lies good in this novel?

Jaggers is the only honest character in Great Expectations.

By deceiving himself, Pip brings about his own ruin.