Abstract: | My paper has as its main aim to show the way in which a character/person comes to life and can be defined as a human being by his interacting with certain people within certain spaces. The introductory chapter is meant to define such concepts as place, space, private and public spaces and places. The second part of the paper demonstrates and shows the continuous process of a being’s becoming by permanently folding himself within a new inner and outer “curtain of experience”. The choice of Pip as an example is meant to define the character caught within the game of the old “curtains’ unfolding” and of the new curtains being woven and folded around the character. Thus, the analysis of spaces in Great Expectations shows Pip between past and present, between “was” and “is”, “there” and ”here”, these terms being characteristic of any human being. The conclusions sum up the reasons for which a human being can be defined, at least partially if not completely, by the places and spaces he goes to, by the way in which he/she reacts to certain situations in certain spaces. |
