 Let's look at the character of Magwitch. Now, Abel Magwitch is an escaped convict who at the beginning of the story essentially forces Pip as a young boy to find him food because he's starving after he tried to run away from prison, but also he offers him a file so he has to locate a file for Magwitch in order to try and secure his escape. However, he is ultimately recaptured and he disappears for the rest of the story because he is sent off to Australia as a convict. However, we then learned that whilst he was in Australia he made a fortune, especially as a farmer and he was really inspired by Pip's kindness towards him and thus he is the person that builds this fortune and then offers this fortune to Pip initially as an anonymous donor, but then he later reveals himself to Pip many, many years later when he's much older we find that he also has a very dramatic change. Firstly, he dramatically changed from being a convict a very lowly convict to a wealthy man but secondly, he has a dramatic change from being a very terrifying scary convict initially to being an old kindly man. So not too kindly though because even when he's much older he still has a massive edge to him. And of course he does change his name when he meets Pip to province. Ultimately, he does meet a very sad ending when he is captured finally and executed. However, we learned that he has shifted and changed dramatically and most importantly, he is Estela's father too. Now, when it comes to writing about Magwitch's character he is a very important and interesting character in the novel Great Expectations. There are lots of key quotations you need to be aware of and I've selected the most relevant ones which I've highlighted all the word level analysis to do when writing about his character either for your course or for exams. So let's look at these quotations and they are a mix of how others describing primarily how Pip describes him and of course what he says within the novel. Now, the first quotation is how he is described in the opening of the novel when Pip encounters him. We learned that he is a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. So when Pip first encounters him he was hiding he jumps up, he's in the graves with a narrow church yard and of course he is the person that forces Pip to go and find food for him and also find him a file that he really needs to secure his escape. Now, the word level analysis you want to do here which and this is in terms of highlighting just how terrifying Magwitch looks. So firstly, the juxtaposition of graves and the word church, okay? So they're not necessarily direct opposites but the idea of graves is to do with death, horror, terror and this is a contrast to church which is associated with purity, okay? So of course here what this does is it establishes Magwitch a very terrifying convict, also a very cruel person, okay? Don't forget that he also terrified young little Pip who just had to respond by doing what he wanted. The second quotation relating to his character is how he's described by Pip when he first sees him. He is a fearful man all in coarse gray with a gray iron on his leg. So Pip obviously noticed that he has an iron on his leg and of course it's because he's an escaped convict. Now, the word level analysis you want to do here in the description of Magwitch at this stage in the novel, this is the early stage in the novel is firstly the adjective fearful to show just how terrifying and how scary he looks and also the literation of G in gray and great and finally the noun iron which indicates to us as readers that he is a convict, he is a disruptible character. The other quotation to bear in mind with his character is when later on in the novel he becomes promise, he goes off to Australia makes up massive fortune and he tells Pip and he reveals himself to Pip later on as his benefactor and he tells Pip it weren't easy Pip for me to leave them parts nor yet weren't safe, okay? So bear in mind that he speaks in a certain dialect that indicates that he has had no educational formal training. This is shown in terms of word level analysis with the repetition of warrant twice here, so there as well as warrant safe, of course this means wasn't and this shows that he didn't have a formal education. He comes from working class background but equally you want to focus on the verb leave which is describing how difficult he found his journey, leaving, escaping and so on and then also building his fortune in order to help Pip. Also, Matt Gritch later says it was a recompense to me ellipsis to know in secret that I was making a gentleman. So here we find that he has changed drastically. He confesses to building this fortune primarily in order that Pip can benefit from his hard work, hard labor because Pip helped him early on, okay? So we can see here actually this is where we see his kindly nature coming through. He's done something which is arguably very selfless, very altruistic. Now, as you can see here, he was very, very gratified to know that Pip was becoming a gentleman in high London society and this is shown through the noun gentleman but equally he wanted to focus on the pronouns me and I to focus on how Matt Gritch was so inspired by the idea that he could help Pip so dramatically. The next position for his character is when we can see that he almost takes Pip on like a father would to a son he states. Look here Pip, I'm your second father, you're my son, more to me nor any son, right? So here he's basically saying you're like a son to me more than any other son which obviously is a little bit ironic because he actually has a daughter who hasn't donated a massive inheritance to. However, here we can see his transformation again. He goes from being this convict who only cares about his own self survival to somebody who cares about someone else to the extent that he almost wants to be a second father to Pip. He understands that Pip is also an orphan. Now the word love analysis to do here with this quotation is firstly the imperative sentence Licky here Pip, when he's talking to Pip he say look Pip, you know, this is I really see you as a son to me, okay? And also the word love analysis to show how he feels very, very paternal loving towards Pip is the semantic field of family in father and son and finally the repetition of the noun son which he repeats twice which shows that he's almost trying to make amends for all his terrible bad deeds in the past by helping Pip, okay? So this is almost his way of seeking redemption as a character. So that's it when it comes to all the key quotations to bear in mind for Magwitch's character.