Mr Jaggers In Great Expectations

Characters

Great Expectations has a wealth of memorable characters whom appear in the novel and interact with the hero, Pip, influencing his evolution for improve or for worse.

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Mr Jaggers in Dandy Expectations

Mr Jaggers is a highly successful London lawyer. Many of the characters in the novel are linked through Jaggers and his law firm. Both Miss Havisham and Magwitch use his services and he is Pip'southward guardian during his stay in London. Jaggers' housekeeper Molly is someone he had successfully defended on a murder charge. Jaggers arranges for Molly's daughter – the young Estella - to alive with Miss Havisham.

Jaggers is a complex grapheme who tin be very secretive almost the work he does. He has probably successfully defended people who are guilty and may be inwardly uneasy virtually this. He does display flashes of kindness and humanity but it is all bearded by a common cold and forbidding exterior.

	How is Jaggers similar this?	Evidence	Analysis
Mysterious	Mr Jaggers first appears equally an unnamed character who passes Pip on the stairs at Miss Havisham's firm. He never tells anyone more than he needs to and gives Pip no clues as to where the money has come from.	He was a burly homo of an exceedingly dark complexion, with an exceedingly big caput, and a respective large hand… He was prematurely baldheaded on the top of his caput, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't prevarication down but stood up bristling. His eyes were ready very deep in his caput, and were disagreeably sharp and suspicious.	To the young Pip, Mr Jaggers seems rather like a fairy-tale ogre . It is not articulate at this stage whether the reader is supposed to like this man or not. Similar Pip, nosotros volition find out the truth about him gradually.
Troubled	Mr Jaggers has a number of rituals or habits which are repeated so frequently that they suggest he is uneasy about the work he does . These include: manus washing, scrubbing his fingers, cleaning his nails, gargling and 'biting the side of his bang-up forefinger.'	He washed his clients off, as if information technology were a surgeon or a dentist. He had a closet in his room, fitted up for the purpose, which smelt of scented soap like a perfumer'southward shop.	Jaggers carries out this action repeatedly in the novel. It is as though he is trying to wash away the crime he has been associated with. This reminds u.s. of Pontius Pilate in the Bible, who washes his hands to prove he is not responsible for the death of Jesus. It is too like Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare's play, who manically washes her easily of the supposed blood of Male monarch Duncan.