How does Dickens create character that both memorable and striking in ''Great Expectations''?

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Joshua Lundin                                                                                                 11T

How does Dickens create character that both memorable and striking in ''Great Expectations''?

Charles Dickens is a very well known writer from the Victorian period and wrote many of novels which are striking and memorable. Such ''Great

Expectations'', ''Oliver twist'', ''A tale of two cities'' and ''A Christmas Carol’’. When Dickens was a young boy and was a member of the working class, he had to work in a factory's as his parent's had been sent to debtor’s prison. But then he worked his way up to become a law clerk.

Dickens links his life to most of his novels such as ''Oliver twist'' and ''Great Expectations'' where he bases himself as the protagonist who means the main character/participants in a story or event. There are many characters that are memorable and stinking in Charles Dickens ''Great Expectations'' three of which are convict, Miss Havisham and Estella.

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In chapter one Dickens shows convict memorable and striking because what he is wearing and how convict compares with the atmosphere.

Convict appears from out of nowhere after you see pip crying over his parent’s death. The convict is very rude to pip and makes him get the convict some whittles and a file to cut his chains or he would kill him. The convict is wearing rags and is very dirty and looks very strong and seems scary to pip. The convict relates to the setting because he is very dirty and old.

When the convict ...

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