Great Expectations [year 10 english]

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        Great Expectations Essay

In what ways does Dickens create effective images of people and places? Explore in particular one short section which includes particularly vivid descriptions.

The novel “Great Expectations” is written by the great and well remembered Charles Dickens. In this essay I will be explaining how Dickens uses different techniques in this novel to create an effective image in your head of people and places.

 In the novel itself Pip meets a man who is a convict, he is told to go and get a file and some whittles and whatever scraps of food he can. Pip does this and the convict spares his life and is very grateful. Later in the novel pip meets a girl called Estella and falls in love with her, she has been brought up by an old woman called Miss Habisham that had been a victim of a run-away groom, so she had taught Estella to break any mans heart that falls in love with her. Pip goes to Miss Habisham to play as she had requested him to do so. He goes there for many years until he moves to London to become a gentleman as it was his life long dream so he could marry Estella. Towards the end of the novel he does get married to Estella.

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Chapter 1 of this novel is set in a graveyard. This is where Pip meets the Convict and the convict demands pip brings a file and some whittles. The way that dickens 1st refers to the graveyard is by saying “The bleak place, overgrown with nettles”. This is a very negative language and would have had a different effect if Dickens had of chosen Weeds instead of “Nettles”. This shows the way that Dickens picks his words so that he can make the biggest impact in the readers head. The negative language used gives the reader a picture of a derelict, ...

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