Great Expectations Coursework
Question
Compare and contrast the two meetings of Pip and Magwitch in Chapter One and Thirty nine.
My essay is based on a book called 'Great Expectations' which is written by a great man Charles Dickens. I will be specifically analysing two characters from the book called 'Pip' and 'Magwitch'. I will be looking at two particular chapters, chapter 1 and chapter 39. I will also be looking at other things like different settings, how the characters are presented, the different types of languages, the nineteenth century and what Charles Dickens wanted the audience who read Great Expectations to think.
Pip's circumstances in chapter one is a little harmless boy without any real family. We know this because it show Pip really scared and worried when he first meets Magwitch at the graveyard. His family all passed away. Pip has gone to the graveyard to visit his family. He has gone to visit the tombstones of his mother, father and younger siblings.
The first meeting of Pip and Magwitch, was at the graveyard, on Christmas Eve, where Pip was visiting his Family's gravestones. Pip starts to cry, we know this because it says in the extract ...
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Pip's circumstances in chapter one is a little harmless boy without any real family. We know this because it show Pip really scared and worried when he first meets Magwitch at the graveyard. His family all passed away. Pip has gone to the graveyard to visit his family. He has gone to visit the tombstones of his mother, father and younger siblings.
The first meeting of Pip and Magwitch, was at the graveyard, on Christmas Eve, where Pip was visiting his Family's gravestones. Pip starts to cry, we know this because it says in the extract "And that small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip". The noise that Pip here's is a petrifying noise from Magwitch saying "Hold your noise!" "Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!" If any grown man in Magwitch's state was to say this to any child or younger person, I'm pretty sure they would be horrified, because I would! Pip shows he is absolutely terrified by saying "O! Don't cut my throat, sir" "Pray don't do it. Sir." This shows us clearly Pip is scared.
The old scary man Magwitch, dressed in "all course grey" and with a "great iron on his leg" with broken up shoes, and an old rag on his head. He was also soaked in water, stung by nettles, and he limped and shivered. Not the nicest of people to look at, quite shocking actually.
In chapter thirty nine, this meeting between Pip and Magwitch was different compared to chapter one, the first extract. In this extract Pip and Magwitch seem to get along, and Magwitch seems to like Pip, whereas in chapter one, Magwitch wanted to cut Pip's throat! I Think Magwitch has come to his senses and finally realises that Pip is only young, small, harmless and innocent, and feels that he should get on with Pip. Magwitch starts to express himself to Pip, as Pip is all Magwitch has, or in fact knows! Magwitch treats Pip like a friend now. Magwitch calls Pip 'master'. I think he has more respect for Pip now, as what he has done for him, whereas at the start of the story, Magwitch didn't care about nothing but himself, which was selfish of him.
I Have started to feel sympathetic towards Magwitch now, as deep down inside him, he is only a old, lonely man, who has no one. This story 'Great Expectations was not written in the 21st Century, we know this because the language they are using, and its also written by Charles Dickens, whom is a very old author.
Coursework - Great Expectations
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