Consider Dickens' portrayal of Pip's childhood in Chapters 1-19 of the novel "Great Expectations"

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Consider dickens’ portrayal of pips

childhood in chapters 1-19 of the novel

“Great Expectations”

This essay will be analysing Pips childhood in the novel ‘Great Expectations’. It will also give an overall idea of the life style for the majority of Victorian children. ‘Great Expectations’ was written by Charles Dickens in 1861 and is considered a classic in English literary terms. In the novel Pip, who is a working class child, changes his class by becoming a gentlemen. He does this by the help of a strange old woman, a convict and a girl he loves. The themes that are in the novel include how people treated other people and how love can be a very important factor in life.

Pips childhood may seem unpleasant to the reader and not what children would enjoy today;

“You young dog...”

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This shows how young lower class Victorian children where treated and spoken to. Adults had no sympathy or respect towards children, infact if they shared there opinion they would get hit and treated like animals

Pip is treated awfully by his sister and sometimes even hit;

“…she had brought me up by hand.”

Pip was often hit and mistreated by his sister for things every child would enjoy today. He would get beaten up with a cane for simply asking his sister a question or even just not doing what he was what he is told.

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