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Sympathy For Pip

Great Expectations

Dickens' gripping novel of 1861, Great Expectations, portrays his distinguishing
tendency to exaggerate both plot and characters. Chapter eight enhances his main
aim of initiating sympathy for Pip, and this, consequently, lasts for the
novel's entirety. We are shown similarities between Dickens' early childhood
memories and the protagonist's inability to defend himself against the
injustices he discovers throughout the early years of life. Dickens successfully
creates a sympathetic mood through a range of techniques, including an exquisite
use of emotive dialogue, sophisticated imagery and symbolism. He explores and
brings originality to timeless themes such as fear, loneliness, luck, classism,
social justice, humiliation, and humor, which is cleverly incorporated into his
writing for the first time to bring an uplifting mood to an otherwise dark and
disturbing tone. His use of Miss Havisham and Estella as tools to evoke sympathy
and casting the......


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