The writers of these two stories deal with fairytale and reality. As the story of The Darkness Out There unfolds, Sandra becomes more aware of the true world and is starting to move into adult awareness. One can argue that this journey is going to be a personal journey for Sandra from childish naivety to adult understanding and is going to be a traumatic experience, like Great Expectations this is also going to be a great experience for Pip because he comes from cruel reality into supposed safe fantasy. Sandra is walking into the unknown (Packers End) because it moves from sunlight and security into growing darkness and mystery, but Pip is also walking into a world of unknown because he will be involved with things he could only dream of, he is in a fairytale world.
In The Darkness Out There as Sandra walks closer to Packers End the sun begins to burn her and the grass tangles at her feet, beginning to cover the once safe path to the unsafe path life her journey from childish naivety to adult understanding. One knows she’s still a child at this point of the story, the evidence to show this is she’s working from pure imagination, she fears not reality but the unknown.
The setting and atmosphere at home has violence by Mrs Joe Gargery, it has verbal violence and physical violence. Mrs Joe Gargery is a very strict woman she always comments on how she brought Pip up by hand. But Joe the true gentleman of the story has taught Pip all of his good qualities he possesses.
Pip is the protagonist of Great Expectations; he is also a true gentleman at the beginning of the story. Pip is very kind, caring, sweet and polite all of the good qualities Joe had taught Pip. Pip’s character changes throughout the story especially when Estella enter his life. Pip falls in love with Estella but knows he is to common for a girl of a higher class.
When Pip has young he dreamed of becoming a gentlemen so that he could be with Estelle and when he was older Mr Jaggers promised him he will become a gentlemen and from that day on Pip had changed.
Estella is very beautiful yet has no heart, this is because she has been trained by miss Havasham to be cold, cruel, insensitive and nasty to men especially a one of a lower class like Pip.
Miss Havasham is a cold, sad, nasty lady and wants to seek revenge out on mankind. By doing this she adopted a child going of the name of Estella and trained her to be cold, nasty and ruthless to men. This is all because when she got engaged and was about to be wed he didn’t turn up, this has broken miss Havashams heart and from that day on she never came out, she also stopped all the clocks at the time of day her heart was broken. Miss Havashams surroundings are dark, cold, dusty and dead also like her image and actions she is the witch of this fairytale.
Mrs Rutter is an old cottage loaf of a woman, her image and her surroundings add up to a stereotypical old lady, but her actions and reactions don’t add up to a stereotypical old lady. I know this because in line 99 it says, “her eyes snapped and darted”. Also in line 107 it shows Mrs Rutters garden to be dark, cold, damp and dead. But she enjoys this because she likes to be isolated form the world around her. Mrs Rutter is not what Sandra expected at all, this is because Mrs Rutter helps Sandra come to terms with her sexuality in front of Kerry which she does not enjoy. At this point Sandra again is moving from childish naivety into adult awareness. Mrs Rutter is trying to keep Kerry away by undermining him of his job and other things. Mrs Rutter manipulates pretty things like the flowers on the tin by drying them out killing the once pretty flowers. Mrs Rutter is using Sandra and Kerry for her satisfaction as she tells the horrific story about when she left a young boy to die, this shows the real Mrs Rutter, the witch of the fairytale. As she is telling the story she is determined to get a reaction from Sandra and Kerry. But Kerry acts very sympathetic to Mrs Rutter’s cold-blooded murder. Mrs Rutter seems not to register other people’s thoughts, one can honestly believe that Mrs Rutter thinks that the act of revenge she has carried out is acceptable and also believes that everyone would have done the same. Kerry at this point is horrified and disgusted at Mrs Rutter, but Sandra seems to be to shock to talk. Kerry then decides to leave talking Sandra with him; it is like he is the knight in shining armour in the fairytale.
As Sandra walks away from Mrs Rutters house and Packers End she realises not to fear the witches and wolves but the mind of a real person and what that persons mind is capable of. Sandra has know matured into adult awareness.
The writers of these two stories try to set a theme of the true existence of the world. That not all things are what they seem.
