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 makes pip promise to go and get him the whittles and a file and not to tell anyone about him. The convict makes pip scared by telling him about a young man in the fields with him that he will tear out his heart and liver the convict says ''A boy may lock his door may be warm in his bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will
Softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open''.
In the middle of the novel pip gets a secret benefactor who pip thinks that
It is Miss Havisham because she is very rich and has lots of jewellery but
It is really convict. But his real name is Magwitch. Dickens tries s to make Magwitch a secret characters witch makes him more memorable and striking this you find out later in the novel.
Another memorable and striking character in Charles Dickens ''Great Expectations'' is Miss Havisham. When pip goes and sees Miss Havisham
At Satis house is dark and the windows have all been boarded up this shows how sad Miss Havisham is. It is like she has lock herself in the house because she was going to get married to Compeyson but was left at the alter and has been in her wedding dress for every. Miss Havisham will be very weird to a modern day reader but to a Victorian reader it would be rude to think of an upper class lady like that. Dickens is teaching his reader about who has better value upper/lower class well miss Havisham and Estella treats the lower class very badly especially Estella by her always using the word boy when she is speaking to pip. The appearance of Miss Havisham Dickens makes her look like a monster to Pip. She's in her wedding dress she has one shoe on but is very rich because she is wearing jewellery. Where Pip entered the room he sees her as waxwork skeleton that is Pip's first image of her. She is very weird she tells pip to play she says ''play, play, play, play'' it is like she is ordering him this makes her memorable and striking to the reader.
Another memorable and striking character in Charles Dickens ''Great Expectations'' is Estella. When pip gets to Miss Havisham house he is met by Estella at the gate, the reader will think that she's lovely and respectable but strait away she is very rude to Mr Pumblecook and keeps on calling pip a ''boy''. She is supposed to have been raised to to break men's heart. Miss Havisham and asks pip to play with Estella and she calls him a ''common labouring boy''. Havisham said ''well? You break his heart'' this makes her stand out because Dickens makes Estella very rude to men and because Havisham heart was broken by Compayson.
Estella contrast Satis house because she is very pretty and lovely but Satis house is dark scary looks evil and has been closed to the out side world
In this conclusion Dickens makes all of the characters memorable and striking. He uses lots of techniques he such as pathetic fallacy and red herring making Magwitch Estella and Miss Havisham memorable and striking to the modem reader and Victorian readers.