TITLE: GREAT EXPECTATIONS GENRE: SOCIAL SARCASTIC FICTIONS NOVEL
AUTHOR: CHARLES DICKENS TIME PERIOD: VICTORIAN NOVEL 1800’S Theme Analysis Of Great Expectations In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the themes show the author 's intentions of why he wrote the novel Great Expectations. The themes also express the overall idea of the novel. The major themes of Great Expectation are social class, dreams is also one of Great Expectations themes. Redemption is also one of the important themes in Great Expectations. Social class is one of the major themes because it determines how a person was treated, in the victorian era. In the novel Great Expectations social class insists of rich, middle, poor, and criminals. The rich class …show more content…
Dickens uses a variety of Tones in the novel Great Expectations. Dickens uses syntax, diction and figurative language. Tone is also significant to the novel as a whole. The most significant tone in Great Expectations is serious. Dickens uses figurative language to establish the mood or tone. The use of figurative language to compare one thing with another. Dickens uses similes such as “…if some goblin had been crying…”(15) Dickens compares the mood of the morning to a goblin crying. The tone of this quote is sad. Dickens also uses figurative language to express the mood of guilt and fear, which is concluded in the first three chapters of the story. The most significant tone in this novel is serious because dickens shows the reader how Pip desperately wants be a gentleman. Dickens expresses syntax by using short and long sentences to express the tone that is significant to the text as a whole. “… through wicket-gates…” (181) the sentence structure of this quote is long, and the quote is significant to the text as a whole because the tone of the particular quote is suspense and serious. Dickens uses Diction to express the tone of the text. Diction in this novel is expressed by the emotions of the characters. “…Devilish good of you.”(315) Dickens uses emotions of Wimmick’s tone towards Pip shows the reader that Wimmick does consider highly of
AUTHOR: CHARLES DICKENS TIME PERIOD: VICTORIAN NOVEL 1800’S Theme Analysis Of Great Expectations In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the themes show the author 's intentions of why he wrote the novel Great Expectations. The themes also express the overall idea of the novel. The major themes of Great Expectation are social class, dreams is also one of Great Expectations themes. Redemption is also one of the important themes in Great Expectations. Social class is one of the major themes because it determines how a person was treated, in the victorian era. In the novel Great Expectations social class insists of rich, middle, poor, and criminals. The rich class …show more content…
Dickens uses a variety of Tones in the novel Great Expectations. Dickens uses syntax, diction and figurative language. Tone is also significant to the novel as a whole. The most significant tone in Great Expectations is serious. Dickens uses figurative language to establish the mood or tone. The use of figurative language to compare one thing with another. Dickens uses similes such as “…if some goblin had been crying…”(15) Dickens compares the mood of the morning to a goblin crying. The tone of this quote is sad. Dickens also uses figurative language to express the mood of guilt and fear, which is concluded in the first three chapters of the story. The most significant tone in this novel is serious because dickens shows the reader how Pip desperately wants be a gentleman. Dickens expresses syntax by using short and long sentences to express the tone that is significant to the text as a whole. “… through wicket-gates…” (181) the sentence structure of this quote is long, and the quote is significant to the text as a whole because the tone of the particular quote is suspense and serious. Dickens uses Diction to express the tone of the text. Diction in this novel is expressed by the emotions of the characters. “…Devilish good of you.”(315) Dickens uses emotions of Wimmick’s tone towards Pip shows the reader that Wimmick does consider highly of