He uses it as a way to mirror the feelings of a character and to expand on the characterisation towards Pip. This allows him to create an environment that the reader can empathise with. In Chapter One, we connect with Pip in a graveyard.
The dark, dismal feelings portrayed by the negative adjectives mirror the feelings within Pip - specifically, the feeling of loneliness or abandonment that Pip is suffering from at this stage. The dead nature of the graveyard, and the subsequent introduction of Magwitch, could connate Magwitch's death further in the novel. As Dickens was an outspoken socialist, the graveyard could also be used to represent the high mortality rate as a result of extreme poverty within the 19th century in England.
This is specifically represented by the reference to 'five little stone lozenges' - siblings of Pip who have already succumbed to the void. We see that as she has decayed, brooded and plotted, her abode has decayed with her. Her entire room displays a recurring theme of white', yet as Pip looks closer he sees that what was 'once white' is 'now yellow'.
This represents the passage of time for Miss Havisham, and shows that she has faded over time, and is now a shadow of her former self. There is a repetition throughout the description of her as 'half': she has 'one shoe', her veil was 'half arranged', her trunks were 'half packed'.
This could be a reference to the fact that Miss Havisham is only half herself - the other half of her being with her vanished, not-to-be partner. It could also suggest that she has been maddened, but it perhaps has a greater influence and shows her as a spider, twitching the webs of other lives to suit her purposes.
This for example is shown when she allows Estella to 'practice' on Pip, encouraging her to 'break him'. Dickens makes a mockery of this phrase by using Wemmick as a stereotypical Englishman. His house is describes as a 'child's copy' of a castle, with compromises and illusions to aid the effect. This could show that Pip, and by extension Dickens, feels jaded and wishes to ridicule the mentality of the English people that if they ignore something and shut themselves off from it, it will cease to exist.
This would be one of Dickens major concerns: as without the support of the rich - who would need to open their eyes and look at the situation - it will not be possible for the situation of the poor to change.
In conclusion, there are a number of ways that Dickens uses setting in Great Expectations. One day a lawyer comes and says that he has money coming or "great expectations" and he has to have a different education now that is he is to be a gentleman rather than a blacksmith.
The title also alludes to the idea of great things to come or things that are expected to come but aren't there yet. Nonetheless, his great expectations lie before him, and he is informed by Jaggers and his clerk, Wemmick, of his new living quarters. When Pip turns 21 years old, he visits Jaggers for further information on his expected fortune and hopefully the identity of his benefactor. Jaggers tells him he will have an annual allowance of pounds until his benefactor is made known to him, but refuses to tell him when his benefactor will be revealed to him.
All of these layers of meaning in the title make for a rich reading experience. Dickens portrays the expectations of other characters very efficiently in the novel. She is manic and often seems insane, flitting around her house in a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
Her expectation is to obtain revenge on the male sex and so she adopts Estella and deliberately raises her to be the tool of her revenge, training her beautiful ward to break men's hearts.
Magwitch does not forget Pip's kindness in the marshes, and later in life devotes himself to earning money that he anonymously donates to Pip. The sad irony of the title is that expectations are never great. A man is what he does. A man who expects to be given is a parasite and a fool. The title has something to do with the nature of Pip's perception of society. He comes from a poor blacksmith family and has these great expectations of what he's missing out on. As the book progresses these "great" expectations become less and less great to Pip.
He meets Magwitch as Uncle Provis and he is just realizing how much he'd rather be back at home at the forge than live out all of these great expectations he had for the rich social class. The opening pages of the novel set a gothic mood. Charles Dickens opens the story with a young boy in a graveyard. It is dark, dank and terrifying, and "growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry is Pip. Then, an evil convict pops out at Pip threatening his life unless he brings him food and a file.
The dark, creepy graveyard sets the evil scene for this to occur. Miss Havisham is an evil woman who lives in a house "of old brick, and dismal, and had many iron bars to it. The mood of the story is often set by the setting, as was the case in this novel. The setting can tell many characteristics about the character that lives within. Charles Dickens creates settings that are like subtle characters. Though not named, these "characters" have a big impact on the story.
Pip's kind brotherin-law, of which he lives with, was a blacksmith. Pip's family is a common one. They do not have an exquisite home or a great deal of money, they were just like everyone else: common. Joe's forge is a good place. Joe says that there is always room at the forge for Pip though his sister wished to turn him away.
The forge tells of Joe's warmth and kindness. Though he may be average, he has a big heart. Miss Havisham is an evil person, who lives in the past. Her house is also evil. Her home is dark and invested with old, dreadful memories that haunt Miss Havisham. These memories turn her evil. Estrella is a young girl that lives with Miss Havisham. She carries the candle through the dark passages, so she is even the slightest bit good, though she hurts Pip emotionally, physically, and mentally.
The setting can tell the reader much about a character. The setting of a story can further or support the theme. One theme in Great Expectations is that even a good person will do evil things when exposed to evil. Pip is a young innocent boy who is scared into stealing from his family by an evil convict. This happens on the graveyard, an evil place, where a good young boy begins to loose his innocence. Estrella is a young girl who lives with Miss Havisham, an evil person.
Miss Havisham's home is dark and the only light comes from a candle that Estrella carries. This symbolizes that Estrella is the only good in the house even though she is now almost fully corrupted by the dark enveloping her candle, Miss Havisham.
She enjoys abusing Pip even when she realizes he likes her. She hits him and puts him down, telling him that he is common. Miss Havisham tells her to break his heart and she accomplishes this goal. Miss Havisham corrupts the innocent Estrella. The setting supports the theme of a good person will do evil acts when exposed to evil.
The setting is an important part of a novel. It helps the story progress. The setting helps the reader visualize where and when the story takes place. The setting establishes the mood of the entire story. Charles Dickens uses places like characters that tell about the inhabitant. The setting is also used to advance the theme. The setting of a story plays an important part in the narration of a story.
He develops and gets maturity through society, through the development of his selfhood, and his realization of which people actually cares about him. At the beginning we see him as a naive but after meeting with Estella, Pip has completely changed.
It is the turning point of his life when he first meets with her. So, Estella displays an enormous power over his thinking unlike Biddy. But the influence of Biddy is more admirable than Estella. Biddy is always pleasing to him whereas, Estella is always tormenting to him. After, the meeting with Estella Pip becomes ambitious, whereas from Biddy he gets practical preparation for his future life. So, it is seen that the influence of Biddy and Estella on Pip is very far-reaching which will be clearer in the later discussion.
There are marked gaps in their 1st meeting, their family bond and their treatment with Pip. When Pip first meets with Biddy, she is presented as Mr.
An orphan girl live Pip, she is rather bedraggled in appearance in early day, her hair always wanting brushing and her shoes mending.
When Mrs. In this novel, she also shares the quality of compassion, simplicity, self respect etc. This dignified caring attitude of Biddy is contrasted with the self-seeking, selfishness of Estella who wishes to use or flatter Pip for her own ends. Estella is the daughter of Magwitch, a convict, and Molly, a servant for Jaggers. Although her roots are extremely common, she is raised in nobility because M.
Havisam adopts her. She is the tool of M. Havisam to destruct the male hosts. When Pip first meets her he immediately overwhelmed noticing her pretty grown hair and her manner, though she is in fact about the same age he is.
She despises the coarse ways of the common laboring boy Pip, but ironically Pip falls in love with her. Before meeting with her, Pip never realizes that anything could be wrong, or that there could be anything might need to change. After the meeting, Pip now begins to question everything in life.
Biddy is gentle, sympathetic, and kind-hearted to Pip. She is much more realistic and self-controlled in her emotions than he is and can see his faults. When on a Sunday afternoon walk on the marshes he tells Biddy that he wants to be gentleman and why she gives him sensible advice. She tells him that Estella is not worthy of his love and he should not live his life to please her. She also says that indifference can work more than an active nature or feigned love for strategic purposes.
In this way, she tries her best to instill realism in Pip. Pip does not want to be seen around the forge, especially for Estella. He feels depressing particularly by the thought that Estella might see him there. Later, when Pip receives his great expiations, he automatically assumes that the expectations come from M. Pip thinks that he has to become a gentleman for Estella. Because of this, he begins to look down upon Joe when Joe meets with him in London. He terms Joe as stupid and common.
But his decision proves wrong, as he starts to grow within a false modesty, gentility etc. He has become so blind by the false inspiration of M. H that he even does not see the hollowness behind it. She inspires him to love Estella. He can do nothing but follow M. Pip holds on to the dream of having Estella until he finds out that she is marrying Drummle. At this moment all of his hopes for Estella are rushed. His self-deception about gentleman and his hope of getting Estella lead to another Pip.
He now begins to realize what a horrible man he has become, and that he has shunned all who really care for him. At an early stage of life, when Pip is raw and unfeeling enough, he could tell Biddy that he loved her if his inspirations had not stood in the way.
At the end of the novel, he hopes to go his old home on the marches, to marry Biddy and perhaps to return to work in the forge with Joe. Later when he finally come his village he is struck seeing that she is married with Joe. Then he realizes his own faults, that she too is a 7 person in her own right, with her own desires and feelings.
At the end of the novel, we see Estella and Pip, meet at the old Satis-House when they are both very changed from their past. Pip is over Estella, out of money, and has full respect for Joe and Biddy.
Estella too has learned from her sufferings and has become a wiser person, able to understand Pip. Use of Humour in Great Expectations Dickens is very apt in using humor and his novel Great Expectation is full of the humorous elements which greatly delight us.
Dickens produces humor by describing some amusing sense or characters which provoke laughter. He puts his characters into some incidents which provoke character.
His road back to grace starts when Magwitch reveals himself as the source of Pip's rise in social stature. The irony that the source of his gentility is from a creature more socially detestable than the uneducated Joe is not lost on Pip.
It is the slap in the face that brings Pip out of the fantasy world he has been living in. His dream has suddenly been seen in the light of day, and now he knows what it has cost him. The concepts of self-responsibility and the cost for choices made make up his lessons in the last part of the book. Nothing in life comes free and one must accept the consequences of the choices made. Dickens generously gives Pip four "father figures" in the book to model this for him.
Joe makes his choice to stay with Mrs. Joe and show her more love than his mother had, fully accepting the cost of enduring her abuse.
Jaggers chooses control and an emotionless life and accepts the cost of loneliness and alienation. This theme is first introduced when Uncle Pumblechook and Mrs. Joe express excitement over Pip's planned visit to Miss Havisham, as they expect that his relationship to the dowager will elevate his social status.
Although Pip doesn't understand this concept at the time, he realizes it fully after his first visit to Satis House. Estella's cruel criticisms of Pip provoke his self-awareness; therein, Pip realizes that he is of a lower class than Estella, and that he must rise above his common roots to make himself worthy of her affection.
Pip's sudden awareness of differences in social status urges him to strive for self-improvement. He is determined to be an educated, articulate, wealthy gentleman, and sincerely believes that he is inherently superior to his family in status.
Pip's determination is best evidenced in his youth, when he asks Biddy to tutor him after school, so that he may read and write like a gentleman. Pip's plan, of course, backfires. Miss Havisham does not intend him for Estella, nor is she his secret benefactor, as he long believed. Magwitch, the convict from the marshes, is, in fact, Pip's benefactor and Estella's birth father. Thus, Estella is truly of lower status than Pip. Both Pip and Estella are miserable, despite their elevated status, Pip accruing debts and Estella suffering an unbearable marriage to Drummle.
This theme of ambition and self-improvement reinforces the overall moral message of the novel: love, loyalty, conscience, and kindness are of superior importance to wealth and social status. This moral message carries the essential idea of the novel, which Pip learns as he develops into an adult. Ultimately, Pip's Great Expectations are disappointed, and he realizes that, even had they come true, he would have been unhappy without the kindness of his friends and family.
Throughout the novel, Pip maintains a strong conscience. He is ridden with guilt after treating Joe and Biddy with disdain, and acts to amend his mistakes. Similarly, he is ashamed of the way he had once acted toward Magwitch, his benefactor, who wanted nothing more than to serve as Pip's father figure, and to reward the boy with opportunities unavailable to him in his own youth. To reconcile his poor treatment of Magwitch, Pip, upon realizing the convict's good intentions, treats him with compassion and kindness.
He focuses all of his energies on helping Magwitch to escape, as he had when he was a boy in the marshes.
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