when I could - though that warnt as often as you may think, till you put the question whether you would ha
been over-ready to give me work yourselves - a bit of a poacher, a bit of a labourer, a bit of a waggoner, a bit of
a haymaker, a bit of a hawker, a bit of most things that dont pay and lead to trouble Great
Expectations,1816:372-373.
4.1.8. Stubborn
Magwitch is described as a stubborn person. Stubborn is a person who not willing to change their idea or to consider anyone else’s reason or argument. It
can be seen that Magwitch is an expatriated from England. He is sending in New South Wales and if he shows himself in England, it would be as if he acts of
felony. Even Mr. Jaggers has warned him but he ignores it. He keeps in his decision to see Pip in London.
I communicated to Magwitch ... I also communicated to him another caution. ... that he was
expatriated for the term of his natural life; and that his presenting himself in this country would be an act of
felony, rendering him liable to the extreme penalty of the law. ... He guided himself by it, no doubt. Great
Expectations,1861:361.
4.1.9. Clumsy
As a clumsy person, Magwitch has an awkward gesture. It happens in all Magwitch’s way, like the way he is sitting, standing, eating and drinking. When
he is cutting his food, lifting light glasses to his lips, it is all clumsy. It also happens when Pip order him to put on a better dress, whatever he puts on it seems
less, more he dressed Magwitch, more he looked like the slouching fugitive on the marsh.
In all his ways of sitting and standing, and eating and drinking - of brooding about, in a high-shouldered
reluctant style - of taking out his great horn-handled jack-knife and wiping it on his legs and cutting his food
- of lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy pannikins. Great Expectations,1861:363
The more I dressed him and the better I dressed him, the more he looked like the slouching fugitive on the
marshes. .... and that from head to foot there was Convict in the very grain of the man. Great
Expectations,1861:362-363.
Magwitch’s clothes are not suitable with London’s society. He dresses in a sea fearing slop suit that Pip’s argue he looks like a parrots, wears shorts like a
farmer, his clothes like never had to be washed. As he was at present dressed in a seafaring slop suit, in
which he looked as if he had some parrots and cigars to dispose of, .... He cherished an extraordinary belief in
the virtues of shorts as a disguise, .... It was with considerable difficulty that I won him over to the
assumption of a dress more like a prosperous farmers; Great Expectations,1861:359
4.1.10. Rude
