Prose study: Great expectations
In "Great Expectation" Charles Dickens represents his characters in the detailed settings he places them in. Choose two characters and analyse Dickens portrayal of them through the settings they occupy.
Introduction
In this essay I am going to analyse the 2 key chapters of the novel chapter 1 and chapter 8.I am also going to compare how Magwitch and Miss Havisham haunt the settings they occupy.
A description of the plot of great expectations
Great expectations is about a boy called Pip who meets an escaped convict called Magwitch who he treats kindly and helps him even thought he was terrified of him.
He had been brought up by his mean sister and her friendly husband called Joe. Pip then meets this strange women called Miss Havisham an old women who has given up on life after being left at the alter. Miss Havisham had brought up a girl named Estella to revenge her own pain so pip fell in love with her and she is made to break his heart. Pip then came in to some mysterious money from an unknown person and was being sent to London with the lawyer names Jaggers. He then becomes employed but eventually loses everything. Then surprisingly one night Pip had a visitor it was Magwitch that happened too be the one that gave Pip all the money in the first place.
Pip then ends up going to live back with Joe.
The novel itself was first published in a serial form in a magazine called "all year round" 1860-1861.There were 36 parts making up 59 characters The readers would be able read one or two chapters per issue so they would have to wait an extra week to see what would happen next in the next instalment. As there was a delay this made the structure of the novel different because each chapter had to have an exiting or point of suspense to happen toward the end to make the readers to stay interested enough to get the reader to get the next instalment. The characters also seem much more exaggerated in order for the readers to remember what the characters were like.
In the Victorian society the importance of class was essential as it would tell if a man was a gentleman or not this is by knowing his table manners how he speaks and how he dresses but most importantly his wealth .Another way in the novel the readers and eventually to pip that an idea of a gentleman doesn't have to betrayed by wealth an ignorance but is portrayed from being like Joe who is the true gentleman as he is generous and loving.
In "Great Expectation" Charles Dickens represents his characters in the detailed settings he places them in. Choose two characters and analyse Dickens portrayal of them through the settings they occupy.
Introduction
In this essay I am going to analyse the 2 key chapters of the novel chapter 1 and chapter 8.I am also going to compare how Magwitch and Miss Havisham haunt the settings they occupy.
A description of the plot of great expectations
Great expectations is about a boy called Pip who meets an escaped convict called Magwitch who he treats kindly and helps him even thought he was terrified of him.
He had been brought up by his mean sister and her friendly husband called Joe. Pip then meets this strange women called Miss Havisham an old women who has given up on life after being left at the alter. Miss Havisham had brought up a girl named Estella to revenge her own pain so pip fell in love with her and she is made to break his heart. Pip then came in to some mysterious money from an unknown person and was being sent to London with the lawyer names Jaggers. He then becomes employed but eventually loses everything. Then surprisingly one night Pip had a visitor it was Magwitch that happened too be the one that gave Pip all the money in the first place.
Pip then ends up going to live back with Joe.
The novel itself was first published in a serial form in a magazine called "all year round" 1860-1861.There were 36 parts making up 59 characters The readers would be able read one or two chapters per issue so they would have to wait an extra week to see what would happen next in the next instalment. As there was a delay this made the structure of the novel different because each chapter had to have an exiting or point of suspense to happen toward the end to make the readers to stay interested enough to get the reader to get the next instalment. The characters also seem much more exaggerated in order for the readers to remember what the characters were like.
In the Victorian society the importance of class was essential as it would tell if a man was a gentleman or not this is by knowing his table manners how he speaks and how he dresses but most importantly his wealth .Another way in the novel the readers and eventually to pip that an idea of a gentleman doesn't have to betrayed by wealth an ignorance but is portrayed from being like Joe who is the true gentleman as he is generous and loving.
