great expectations
...s stormy and the rain, heavy. “It was wretched weather; stormy and wet, stormy and wet; and mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets.” I think that Charles Dickens chose these settings as they give the reader a sense of fear, as both chapters are set in the dark and in remote places. Furthermore, the way Charles Dickens describes them; it creates tension, which will make the reader want to read on. In chapter 1 the circumstances are that Pip is a poor orphan boy who lives with his sister and her husband, the blacksmith. Pip is treated badly and has little education. He is scared of the convict and yet fascinated by his presence. “I gave Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister – Mrs Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.” However in chapter 39, Pip is 23 and a wealthy gentleman as he has a benefactor. He lives with his friend Herbert in London and has been there for a year. He is now well educated. He has become a rather rude and stuck up man. “I was three-and twenty years of age.” “We had left Barnard’s Inn more than a year, and lived in the Temple. Our chambers were in Garden-court, down by the river.” In chapter 1, the convict had just escaped from a prison ship. He was unwell and hungry. He seems desperate and very common, as he speaks as if he is uneducated. He was dirty and a very fearful man. The convict is wearing very torn and ragged clothes. He doesn’t have a hat on, which tells us that he was not a gentleman. He is still chained at the ankles. “A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head.” Whereas in Chapter 39, the convict has returned from Australia and has now become a sheep farmer. He used the money he earned to give to Pip, as the convict is his benefactor. He is politer and more respectable in society. He has respect for Pip, and he has become more muscular. “I’ve been a sheep farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world,” said he: “many a thousand mile of stormy water off from this.” I think that Charles Dickens wanted the circumstances to be different in order to show the reader how money can affect people’s lives. I don’t feel that money has changed Pip for the better, he may have become a wealthy gentleman, but he is still a lonely man. Pip has become a rude and stuck up person. However, the convict has changed for the better as he is a lot...