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It is observed that Dicken’s characters are remarkable individuals, but they are more than that. They are solitaries. They are people caught living in a world of their own. They do not talk to one another, they talk to themselves. More so Dickens belonged to the age where people were more materialistic and for them things were more important than people. Thus, dickens uses certain techniques, languages for portraying his characters with specific devices.  In Great Expectations Dickens has depicted his characters with certain peculiarities. For instance, Joggers has a huge forefinger, Wemmick a post-office mouth, Magwitch a clock-like throat etc. Dickens can nicely associate certain objects with his characters and they are projected. For E.g. Estella wears jewels in her hair and on her breast, Joggers flourishes a large white handkerchief.  Dickens has shown the impact of materialism by presenting Miss Havisham who has been guilty of aggression against life in using the two c...

Great Expectation can also be seemed as a fantasy. It is a fantasy which the children as well as the adults love alike. In spite of its theme of disillusion Great Expectation is not in its pervading atmosphere a melancholy book. But it contains many scenes of high spirited enjoyment and of comic gusto. The fantasy begins with Pip, the main character, who is a little boy. He is an orphan brought up by his harsh sister and kind husband of her, the Joe family. In the routine life, Pip will be apprenticed to his brother-in. law, Joe, he will learn blacksmithing and he will pass his life somehow. This is what expected at the beginning of the novel. But there is a sudden change in Pip's life due to entry of fantastic elements.  First fantasy is observed with the entry of Magwitch, the criminal. He is a convict escaped from the prison who happens to meet Pip at the graveyard and threatens Pip. He demands that Pip steal food for him from Mrs. Joe's larder and a file fro his leg iro...

  It is generally believed that Dickens pays least attention towards the plot construction in his novels. Thus, his most of novels have weak, loose and inorganic plots. There is no unity of action. They are full of various episodes and irrelevant characters. But his Great Expectations differs from this tradition. As G. B. Shaw remarks about the plot of this novel,  "Its beginning is unhappy; its middle is unhappy; and the conventional happy ending is an outrage on it." The plot construction in Great Expectations is superb. It establishes Dickens as the master of narrative style, dialogue and depiction power. The post is dramatic, full of adventures and humorous situations as well. The plot begins with suspense and a thrill when Pip is threatened by the run away convict who years later is to be the arbiter of the boy's destinies.  There is a wonderful inter-relation of each stage and each incidents. Pip's development of love, his feelings for the Joe, the sudden change...

The major theme of this novel is the rise and fall of the great expectation of a child Pip. It means the more emphasize is given to the childhood of the hero. Pip is put before us an orphan who is quite isolated from family protection. Moreover he has no social status which could make him potential enough to lead life with pride. He is rendered harshly by his sister. He is presented before us at the churchyard where he is lost in the memory of his dead parents. There he becomes aware of himself as a small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry. Because of constant hammering from his sister and due to fear of unidentified himself, Pip does not recognize from his early childhood Joe as a force. He considers Joe only a child like himself who must also suffer the verbal attack of Mrs. Joe. It is his childhood's lack of parental care that leads him towards a search for true love. He wants someone who can care him, who can protect his feelings and who can share...

Charles Dickens was working as the editor of a weekly magazine called ‘All the year Round’. Charles Dickens first published Great Expectations’ as a serial story in 1860. In 1861 it was published as a separate book. Charles Dickens has given a very appropriate title to his novel ‘Great Expectations’. It means ‘Great hopes’ Pip’s is the hero of the novel. He is very poor. Suddenly an unknown man helps him. Pip’s hopes rises. He has great expectations. He has hopes to become rich. He likes to become a gentleman.  The novel shows the three different stages of these great expectations. First it shows Pip before these hopes comes into his life. Then it shows how he behaves during it and finally it shows Pip as a different man when all these great expectations are over. This novel shows the ups and downs of Pip’s great expectation. The novel begins in Chatham. The author had passed his childhood there. He knew the place very well. Therefore the opening scenes of the novel are des...