Expectations Charles Dickens Essay

In the freshman chapter of Great Expectations Charles Dickens creates a precise intense image of the marshes. This is the root place he describes and he ingests the marshes sound like a very creepy and bewildering place.Ours was the marsh country, tear by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.The words marsh and the river makes the marshes sound like a very damp, colly and bleak place.Also in the first chapter Charles Dickens describes the churchyard asBleak place overgrown with nettles. Dickens as well describes the churchyard s a very Overgrown and bleak place.A burial ground is supposed to be a happy place that revitalises and refreshes kind, happy memories. I think this implies that death is every around no matter where you look. I think this because everything is overgrown and not looked after and the nettles are killing all of the beautiful plants so death is also involved thither as well.Dickens also says about(predicate) the marshes in th e first chapter And that the dark planar wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dykes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes and that the let loose leaden line beyond was the river and the distant savage liar from which the lead story was rushing was the sea.This quote represents a dark and unforgiving time to come for come to and that there is no one out there in the wilderness to care for him. The words leaden line imply a low lead river that looks like it has bars on and to Pip this makes him looking at imprisoned. Also the words savage liar represents to Pip that he thinks that there is like a savage monster out there in the sea. Furthermore in chapter one Dickens explains the marshes as a wide black, horizontal line and the sky was just a row of long, ireful red lines and dense black lines intermixed. The words represent anger and endangerment and black utility, death and emptiness. Pip again feels like he is a prisoner to the marshes.At the start of the first chapter instead of Pip existence one of the main characters he becomes the narrator of the story and starts talking about his family. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.When Pip goes to the churchyard to the burial ground to look at their graves and imagines what his family would of looked like this proves he has a very distinct and creative imagination. My first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tomb orchestra pits.Also Pip proves that there was a high rate of infant mortality and he also proves that there was a universal struggle to die. To quint little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were set up in a neat row beside their grave, and were scared to the memory of five little brothers of mine who gave up trying to get a lifetime exceedingly early in that universal struggle.Dickens in the first chapter changes from first person the narrator to third person and this s a very unnatural method to use. And that the small bundle of shivers maturation afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.Also Great Expectations was serialised which meaning that he novel was brought out in chapters and because the novel was successful populate kept buying each chapter each time they were released.When Pip goes into the churchyard to the graveyard so that he can go and visualise his brothers and his parents he meets a convict. The convict is starving and looking for food and basically anything and so he turns Pip upside town. The man after looking at me for a moment turned me upside-down.This is very strong and grotesque and you can clearly imagine it as he turns him upside down literally and metaphorically.After this the convict starts talking to Pip about his appearance. He talks aboutWhat fat cheeks you ha gotAfter this Pip saysI believe they were fat, though I was at that time undersized for my years, and not strong.This gives the impression th at Pip has never been fed properly and this make Pip sound innocent and vulnerable.Later on Pip makes a promise to the convict that he would bring or so food and some wittles so that the convict could release himself from the chain around his ankles and the convict threatens Pip to make sure he does this.