How does dickens succeed in making this a memorable and significant moment in the novel? Refer closely to the text using relevant references to support your comment.
Tom Nadin 09/01/2004 Prose Coursework Unit Great Expectation By Charles Dickens How does dickens succeed in making this a memorable and significant moment in the novel? Refer closely to the text using relevant references to support your comment. Charles Dickens makes this extract memorable and significant as it is the first time Pip, a working class boy from the forge, meets Miss Havisham and Estella who are going to have an important and significant affect on his life. Pip is invited to Miss Havisham's residence Statis house. This is important as he doesn't know why he was invited and before he goes he is told there may be something in this for him. The reader knows this might be true due to the title of the play "Great Expectations" Dickens makes Pip's first encounter with Miss Havisham and Estella at Statis House a significant and memorable point in the novel in a number of ways. The first point that makes it memorable is that it is written in first person narrative. Pip says "sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or ever shall see". This image is seen through the eyes of a child so it will be memorable to him as he will never forget this lady. This also gives the reader first hand experience into what Pip is seeing. Another point why Dickens makes this a
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Throughout this novel of Great Expectations characters are divided into upper class and lower class people. Unlike most young men in the 19th century, Pip was not either of these, but both. Pip grew up with his sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her husband, Mr Joe who had grown up with no education, but taught himself to become a blacksmith. Joe wanted to pass on his talent to pip and treated him with great respect and almost as his own son. Pip was very close to him, and because Joe grew up running away with his mother from his father, he had had no reading or writing education. Joe decided and made sure that this would never happen to Pip and he would be happy how he lived his life. Pip was taught at his local school, this education was not to the highest standard and was paid for by the Gargery's. In this novel Pip was read to by an older man and taught the alphabet. This type of education was not necessarily rigorous and as he writes a letter on a slate to Mr Joe you can notice a number of things that are wrong that he hasn't been taught. His spelling is not correct, he writes in mixed capitals and lowercase, and not in Standard English. Chapter 7, Page 44 line 16: "MI deEr JO i opE U R KRWITE WELL i OPE I SHAL SON B HABELL 4 2 TEEDGE U JO AN THEN WE SHORL B SO GLODD AN WEN I M PRENGTD 2 U JO WOT LARX AN BLEVE ME INF XN PIP" When Pip went to give Joe the slate he was
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Alice Wright How does Dickens create an atmosphere of fear and mystery in the opening chapters of "Great Expectations"? Many authors often create mood and atmosphere in there novels using many techniques, the advantages of doing this is it makes the novel more interesting and all round better to read and understand, it gives a more in depth description of the story being told. The techniques that are usually used are descriptive and imaginative words that are relevant to the setting or mood that the author is trying to create. Also structure, characters and speech is used in a way to create atmosphere. Great Expectations was Dickens second to last complete novel. It was first published as a weekly series in 1860 and in book form in 1861. Early critics had mixed reviews, disliking Dickens tendency to exaggerate both plot and characters, but readers were so enthusiastic that the 1861 edition required five printings. Similar to dickens memories of his own childhood, in his early years the young Pip seems powerless to stand against injustice or to ever realize his dreams for a better life. However, as he grows into a useful worker and then an educated young man he reaches an important realisation: grand schemes and dreams are never what they first seem to be. Pip himself is not always honest, and careful, readers can catch him in several obvious contradictions between his truth
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Great Expectations is a novel written in 1888 by Charles Dickens - The genre of this novel is a mystery - Mystery novels were very popular in the 18th century because crime was very high.
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English Coursework - Great Expectations
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