What's the Story?

Why did Charles Dickens write the novel you are reading? What in your analysis of literary techniques led you to this conclusion?

- Charles Dickens wrote The Great Expectation to illustrate an example of social class. The main character, Pip was in poverty, but he finds a motive to become rich. He spends most of his life searching for wealth, but at the end only trouble finds him. Diction; Dickens obviously wrote this book in the past because social class and standards were big during the era. Similar to Pride and Prejudice where the rich married the rich. Characterization; the rich character like Miss. Havisham was extremely wealthy, but viewed as "evil" or the protaginst. On the other hand, Pip was characterized as a motive boy, but he was extremely poor. Dickens uses many literary techniques to write the fictional story about wealth and social class, but also to illustrate the 1860's.