What I suffered outside was nothing to what I underwent within.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 4. As Pip is about to set off with Joe for Christmas day church service, his conscience is plagued by an internal moral conflict. Having being coerced by convict Magwitch into stealing food and a file from Joe and his sister, he suffers feelings of guilt and shame. This is an important theme in the novel and plays a big part in Pip’s life.