How Does Charles Dickens Affect Society

The book Great Expectations is written by Charles dickens in 1860, during Victorian England. This was the time when a part of society mainly the working class, among the misery and distress were widespread. Under new urban conditions, it had created a lot of health problems and even children were often used as a worker. The writings of Charles Dickens were highly influenced by his own experiences and the social and political conditions of England in the 1800’s,which directly reflect the society at that time. It is a story about the boy named “Pip” , who dreams of becoming a gentleman like Dickens himself. However, throughout the novel, he experienced different kinds of discrimination due to his social status.

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This is the first time where the convict “Magwitch” and “Pip” meets in the marshland near the churchyard, where it is dominated by marshes, swamps and mud. The marshland is very unsafe and dangerous place to be, and the conditions of the location of the location suggests the atmosphere of isolation and negligence. Also, he emphasizes this by effective use of pathetic fallacy to build the feeling by the description of atmosphere and the location. In chapter 1, Dickens describes the salty wind as having come from ‘distant savage lair’, which visualise how eerie the sea was and how was sending to try and hurt him. Also, description of setting of his childhood introduces the reader along with the image of tombstones in a graveyard. These description emphasizes the isolation and solitude of the area and reflect Pip’s inner feelings about his life at that time. Pip both see the seaside as a deserted place that connected with the memories of dead, where he sees his childhood home as isolated, has a dreadful feelings trapped by Mrs.Joe in her working class and lifestyle. The word “rushing” also creates pathetic fallacy, which describe its strength in which the wind is blowing at, and tells as the harsh weather at the