charles dickens
Discuss how Dickens describes key locations in ‘great expectations’ and say what it tells us about the places and the people who inhabit them Charles Dickens novel, great Expectations is about how people change in different locations especially Dickens’s main character pip, who in the Marshes is a carefree boy who then moves to London where it changes him both morally and emotionally. ... The atmosphere in the graveyard is grey and deaden just like the way Dickens has described Magwitch ‘a fearful man, all in grey, with a great iron on his leg. ... A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles and torn by briars; who limped and shivered, and glared and growled;’ by Dickens placing Magwitch’s first entrance in a graveyard immediately grabs our attention and our first impression of him. ... We know this because Dickens’ language has altered from ‘pleasant and quiet, ships sailing on the river passing beyond the earthwork, and sometimes, when the tide was, looking as if they belong to sunken ships that were still sailing on the bottom of the water’ to ‘very damp and rimy.