How Does Dickens Create Sympathy In Chapter 1
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, …show more content…
She is the incarnation of Miss
Havisham's hatred of men and it is through her that Miss Havisham is able to cause severe heartache to the innocent Pip. She has been raised to wreak revenge on the male sex and to break their hearts' on behalf of Miss Havisham.
Dickens uses the character of Estella to evoke a feeling of sympathy for Pip throughout the novel. The seeds for this pity are laid in chapter eight. When
Pip is so obviously attracted to Estella but she responds to him with an utmost disgust and distain. She uses many derogatory terms towards him, and continually refers to him as boy'. She does not even deem him important enough to talk too directly, which in effect arouses our sympathy for Pip. To her he is beneath respect and is nothing more than a common laboring boy'. She ridicules everything about him even his boots, and seems to enjoy making him seem inferior. "What coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!"
Her brutal treatment of him leaves him feeling heartbroken, and encourages his snobbish behaviour when he becomes the gentleman he has always strived to become. In spite of his age Pip is left feeling not only socially but also
academically
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, …show more content…
She is the incarnation of Miss
Havisham's hatred of men and it is through her that Miss Havisham is able to cause severe heartache to the innocent Pip. She has been raised to wreak revenge on the male sex and to break their hearts' on behalf of Miss Havisham.
Dickens uses the character of Estella to evoke a feeling of sympathy for Pip throughout the novel. The seeds for this pity are laid in chapter eight. When
Pip is so obviously attracted to Estella but she responds to him with an utmost disgust and distain. She uses many derogatory terms towards him, and continually refers to him as boy'. She does not even deem him important enough to talk too directly, which in effect arouses our sympathy for Pip. To her he is beneath respect and is nothing more than a common laboring boy'. She ridicules everything about him even his boots, and seems to enjoy making him seem inferior. "What coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!"
Her brutal treatment of him leaves him feeling heartbroken, and encourages his snobbish behaviour when he becomes the gentleman he has always strived to become. In spite of his age Pip is left feeling not only socially but also
academically