Pip and Magwitch in the early chapters of Great Expectations

chapters when he rages up to pip and grabs him showing his anger the

quote that shows this is "he took me by both arms, tilted me back as far as

he could hold me" this show pips fear and anxiety but mainly shows

Magwichs power and control, the audience feel scared for pip and are

also intimidated by the convict, another quote to present the two is "keep

still you young devil or I'll cut your throat!" this quote is very powerful in

the way the convict has control, there is an imperative I this sentence,

"cut" is a very sharp and powerful word and the t makes it sound fierce

and nasty, the use of an exclamation mark makes the audience feel

worried for pip as the power behind it sounds threatening.

Also he threatens pip for food and drink, so pip steals him his food but

not without any fear and guilt inside of him as in the film version we see

him slouched at the table and is kept quiet. We also see when he is

delivering Magwich his food, pip scared to tears imagining the cows

calling him a thief and as though they are calling to others to report it.

Dickens enhances the protagonists' characters by creating them with

little education and intelligence on how to say or pronounce words

correctly as when he says "ours was the marsh country" this shows that

they are not upper-class but poor, and that the lack of grammar really

adds to the presentation of the characters. The audience here feel very

sorry for pip that he has to live like this.

Dickens uses characters in the novel to explore his ideas and feelings

from social issues of his time, like when his father was put in jail for debt

and following him in was his mother and five brothers this relates to the

graveyard scene. He also uses in the story the reference to when the

convicts are sent to Australia to work, in the novel this happens to

Magwich but all his money goes to pips inheritance to make him a wealty

gentleman just like he wanted to be. Dickens was strongly against capital

punishment and he probably mad pip and the convict Protagonists

because he wanted the issue to be changed for the better of innocent

convicts.

Linguistics devises play and important role in the novel to make the

play interesting and fun to read, but he also uses them to convey

characters like this use of personification in this quote "like a wicked

Noah's ark" this is referring to the prison ship saying that the convicts

Are animals, this makes the convicts seem very nasty by the use of

"wicked".

Dickens also uses similies in this quote "except that somebody in the

boat growled as if to dogs" this is also referring to the convicts as animals

making them seem more and more evil, and the repetition of this

reference to animals makes it sound as though they will forever be dogs

and not human being, this symbolises to Dickens's social issues.

These two characters are significant later on in the story as both share

an undiscovered relationship and connection to that is revealed in the

later chapters when an unwelcoming knock at the door takes pip into

shock and disgust as all his wealth was provided by the convict all the

way through his adulthood.