Philip "Pip" Pirrip Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Philip "Pip" Pirrip? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Philip "Pip" Pirrip from Great Expectations and what is the personality traits.
INFP (3w4)
Philip "Pip" Pirrip personality type is INFP, though his type has been described as "INTP". He is the protagonist of the book "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.
In "Great Expectations", Pip is a lonely orphan with a great deal of self-doubt. He is also referred to as a "loser". He finally meets Magwitch in London, and in an attempt to make him feel better, likens him to the Christ figure in his story, who was also forced to escape from his home, and also tells him that he is "a man in a thousand". The two gradually develop a strong friendship, and Magwitch begins to nurture Pip, though he is still in fear of losing this new friend. Magwitch becomes Pip's benefactor; however, it is because he wants to escape from his past. Magwitch eventually tells Pip that he is not who he believes himself to be, and that the person he holds so dear is actually the man he has been trying to escape for so long. Magwitch leads Pip to the marshes at dusk, where he raises his mud-spattered face to the sky, thus showing Pip his true self, and explains to him that his identity was forever changed by this night.
