How does Charles Dickens create an atmosphere of crime and death in ‘Great Expectations’?

In this essay, I pull up stakes talk ab emerge how Charles Dickens creates an atmosphere of curse and death in Great Expectations. Charles Dickens was an side of meat nove contestation of the Victorian era and was considered to be one of English languages greatest writers he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters and achieved commodious worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Great Expectations is a novel written and serially published from 1860 to 1861 in a magazine called All Year Round. Shortly after that, it was published as a complete novel. It was hatful during the Industrial Revolution in Britain. The Industrial Revolution brought in a major change in the economy and society resulting from the use of machines and the efficient production of goods.Charles Dickens begins the story in a cemetery. Immediately, we are introduced to the theme of death. The weather matches with the creepy setting. It links to death by using word of honors like young a fternoon the word raw suggests that it is painful. Dark suggests evil and death and flat suggests something bleak. These words all promote the gloomy setting.The main character strike tells us ab unwrap his parents and brothers who are inhumed in the graveyard. He lists the names of his brothers in a matter of fact way and this shocks us. and that Alexander, Barthlomew, Abraham, Tobias and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were alike dead and buried. In the 1830s when the novel is set, half the babies died in infancy due to poor medical care and slayer diseases which thrived in the appalling conditions within the society. fool lists the names of his five dead brothers. This take forms us think that the list is never-ending and high frolicsomes the presence of death.We are introduced to the theme of crime when an escaped convict by the name of Magwitch, jumps out from behind a gravestone at inject. Hold your noise At this point, he pay backs the reader smell frighten ed, as he starts to threaten Pip. Pip also sees a gibbet. a gibbet, with some chains respite to it which once held a pirate.A gibbet was where executed criminals were placed as a warning to others. It stands out on the horizon and looks particularly eerie in the gloomy night sky. Dickens personifies the sky to make it angry the use of incarnation here alarms the reader because the sky feels extremely threatening. The sea is described as a lair the use of the word lair suggests that the sea is a wild animal in a den. The wind comes rushing from the lair to get Pip. Pip becomes a bundle of shivers. The word shivers suggests fear and extreme frigidity, both of which and to an atmosphere of crime and death.In Chapter Three, Dickens describes the weather as a rimed daybreak and has Pip imagine a goblin that had been crying all night. This links to the guilt that Pip feels about the crime he has committed because he is upset and he feels like crying. Rimy morning, real damp, damp lyi ng on the bare hedges and sparegrass, like a coarser sort of spiders webs, the marsh-mist was so thick, the mist was heavier., all these words tell us of darkness and crimes.Dickens uses a fiction to compare about the damp lying on the bare hedges. Dickens uses personification to enhance Pips inculpatory conscience by using the weather, the marsh-mist was thick and the marsh-mist was heavier. The mist is clearly a metaphor for Pips state of mind. He is literally finding it hard to find his way to the convict merely also feels morally alienated because of his crime.Dickens writes about a wooden finger on the post. Dickens also uses personification to enhance Pips guilty conscience at this point because he has committed a crime and he thinks that this signpost is telling him the sole(prenominal) way he should go. Like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks, that the wooden finger on the postinvisible to me.Dickens uses personification by heightening Pips mind as he is confused about the whole situation. The signpost has turned into a ghastly accuser.As the confusion in Pips mind races on, he sees an Ox which was black with a white cravat. This Ox of Pips mind notices him with the pork pie and recognises that the pie is not his. A boy with Somebody-elses pork pie Stop him, Holloa, young thiefWith its clerical air, the ox seems like a vicar, accusing him of sin.In the beginning of Chapter Eight, Dickens described the Satis House like a prison. It was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron interdict to it. Some of the windows had been walled up of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred. Iron bars are like prison bars and it is one of the places where you cant escape from.There was also a bombastic brewery at the side of Satis House. This place was very idle. There was also a large brewery. No create from raw material was going on in it, and none seemed to have gone on for a vast long time. Nothing growing in it signifies death and in this case, the large brewery consists of nothing but time lag death.At one point, Pip was beginning to feel cold as he went through the house. The cold wind seemed to blow colder there, than outside the gate.This links to Pips fear of going into the house. The more he has the soupcon of becoming colder, the more he fears going into the house. He isnt really used to visiting anyone elses places except the graveyard and thats why he feels frightened of going in to the house.When Pip was about to meet Miss Havisham, Estella walked onward from him and took the candle away with her. This was very uncomfortable, and I was half afraid.From Pips point of view, hes afraid of the dark. Hes always used to having light around him as he goes around but in this case, there was darkness No coup doeil of daylight was to be seen in it. This stresses the presence of evil and death.Pip is alone when he sees a char in the dressing room in Satis House. In an armchair, with an elbow resting on t he table and her head argument on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see, she had spousal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. Some bright jewels sparkled.White is related to ghosts and ghosts come from death. She is rich with colored dresses and her house is very old. Miss Havisham is compared by Pip to a skeleton and a waxwork the word skeleton, suggests that Miss Havisham could represent the presence of death. The waxwork suggests something that there is something about Miss Havisham which appears real but is not substantial. The bridal flowers in her hair compares with her white hair and obvious age suggests something eerie and bizarre.In Chapter Twenty, Pip travels to London to see Mr Jaggers in his office. I was scared by the immensity of London I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow and dirty. Pip has never been to London forwards and he was so used to living in the Marshes, he had no idea what London might look like, as in that time, London was the busiest, most crowded towns of England.Pip goes into Mr Jaggers room and was fascinated by what he sees in it. Mr Jaggers room was lighted by a transom only, and was a most dismal place. When the novel was set, electricity wasnt really invented at that time and the only light rooms receive is the daylight.The skylight, eccentrically patched like a broken head, and the distorted adjoining houses looked as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me through it. Pip is intimidated by what he sees as he has never been to an office before.Pip also sees some odd objects about. The skylight is personified as a victim of an assault. Old rusty side arm this suggests that Mr Jaggers is a criminal and has done many crimes with the pistol in the past. A sword in a scabbard this suggests that he is very protective of his special possessions. some(prenominal) strange-looking boxes and packages this suggests that there m ight be a few hidden surprises that Mr Jaggers doesnt want people to know yet. two dreadful casts on a shelf, of faces peculiarly swollen and twitchy about the nose this also suggests that he is very interested in dice as to see in how it was created.Pip has also never seen these kinds of objects before in his life and he too, gets fascinated as he looks into them. Pip says that Jaggers chair is like a coffin. We have a mental image of Jaggers emerging like a vampire from the coffin.Pips experiences of the fairness are linked to Dickenss life his father had been imprisoned for debt and he had been a court journalist and virtue clerk. The choice of settings such as the frightening graveyard and the introduction of dark characters such as the non-white convict, Magwitch create the atmosphere of crime and death. Dark weather creates a sense of crime and death in a lot of scenes. Charles Dickens sums up this novel as a crime and death genre. It is also a mixture of crime and horror as well as crime and death.A sottish court official offers to show Pip a public hanging place. This sickened Pip just as it did Dickens who campaigned against such humiliating events and wanted them to be banned. Dickens spent his life campaigning against poverty, crime and death. There was crime and death everywhere all around his time and he chose this genre to make his readers aware of these and to the fact that poverty played an important part which caused high crime rate resulting in unfortunate deaths.