Great expectations; written during Economic Prosperity and Religious Controversy. Unlike other novels where the theme is revolved around love, romance and fairy-tale with grand mythical creatures. Dickens was writing about the social experience of the first generation of the Victorian age he outlines social injustice, child poverty and lack of education.
Great Expectation is a bildungsroman where Dickens writes about the life of pip from an infant age to adulthood. when the readers first meet Pip they instantly realise that he isn’t anybody’s responsibility, we also learn that he is an orphan who lives in the with his heavy-handed sister Biddy and her husband, who is a blacksmith, Joe. Pip had a difficult life at the early stage, being beaten …show more content…
So, I called myself pip, and came to be called Pip” , this is the beginning of the novel we are introduced to the main character identifying himself as Pip, this shows the child wasn’t anyone’s responsibility, which instantly reflects the treatment of children during the Victorian era. Children were not a priority, they were nothing more than a burden or another mouth to feed, and in many cases, they fed themselves as child labour was still taking place. This is evident that Dickens is already pointing out to the reader moral failure/ weakness of moral injustice children are …show more content…
The central idea of the novel is based around the considerable expectations of wealth not wealth itself. Before pip had a sudden stroke of luck from an anonymous fundraiser he was living with his sister biddy and her blacksmith husband Joe, who were financially challenged. As soon as he gained his unexpected wealth Pip got up and left Biddy and Joe which was not admirable. This is one of the any ways that Dickens portrayed moral failure. Pip was unappreciative towards Biddy and Joe ad left them with nothing. Pip abandoning the people who have raised him simply because he had money in his pocket reflected on the division between classes during the Victorian era. Due to the industrial revolution (1760-c.1830) it created horrible poverty yet enormous wealth this is one of the reasons why Dickens wrote about
Great Expectation is a bildungsroman where Dickens writes about the life of pip from an infant age to adulthood. when the readers first meet Pip they instantly realise that he isn’t anybody’s responsibility, we also learn that he is an orphan who lives in the with his heavy-handed sister Biddy and her husband, who is a blacksmith, Joe. Pip had a difficult life at the early stage, being beaten …show more content…
So, I called myself pip, and came to be called Pip” , this is the beginning of the novel we are introduced to the main character identifying himself as Pip, this shows the child wasn’t anyone’s responsibility, which instantly reflects the treatment of children during the Victorian era. Children were not a priority, they were nothing more than a burden or another mouth to feed, and in many cases, they fed themselves as child labour was still taking place. This is evident that Dickens is already pointing out to the reader moral failure/ weakness of moral injustice children are …show more content…
The central idea of the novel is based around the considerable expectations of wealth not wealth itself. Before pip had a sudden stroke of luck from an anonymous fundraiser he was living with his sister biddy and her blacksmith husband Joe, who were financially challenged. As soon as he gained his unexpected wealth Pip got up and left Biddy and Joe which was not admirable. This is one of the any ways that Dickens portrayed moral failure. Pip was unappreciative towards Biddy and Joe ad left them with nothing. Pip abandoning the people who have raised him simply because he had money in his pocket reflected on the division between classes during the Victorian era. Due to the industrial revolution (1760-c.1830) it created horrible poverty yet enormous wealth this is one of the reasons why Dickens wrote about