How does Dickens establish the development of Pip at the start of Great Expectations?
Great Expectation is a novel written in Victorian England, which revolves around a young orphan called Pip. Who is disturbed to meet an escaped convict; Magwitch an encounter that briefly haunts his life .Which later unexpectedly turns his life right around by being his mysterious benefactor, which he later snobbishly abandons his friends for London society. This is links to a bildungsroman as we read his social and psychological journey from an orphan to a young man.
Dickens explores aspects of Victorian England such as education and the penal system in England showing how much law and order was an ordinary part of people's life like the gibbets' which surrounds their every-day environment. This could symbolize how Dickens feels that the system does not work and by surrounding people with remainders people were be scared into doing the right thing. Dickens also demonstrates how education does not take priority as un-educated people teach the working class children. The kind of education given from MrWopsle's great aunt is the kind, which has no value therefore keeping the rich and poor divided.
Great Expectation is a novel written in Victorian England, which revolves around a young orphan called Pip. Who is disturbed to meet an escaped convict; Magwitch an encounter that briefly haunts his life .Which later unexpectedly turns his life right around by being his mysterious benefactor, which he later snobbishly abandons his friends for London society. This is links to a bildungsroman as we read his social and psychological journey from an orphan to a young man.
Dickens explores aspects of Victorian England such as education and the penal system in England showing how much law and order was an ordinary part of people's life like the gibbets' which surrounds their every-day environment. This could symbolize how Dickens feels that the system does not work and by surrounding people with remainders people were be scared into doing the right thing. Dickens also demonstrates how education does not take priority as un-educated people teach the working class children. The kind of education given from MrWopsle's great aunt is the kind, which has no value therefore keeping the rich and poor divided.