Attitudes toward Victorian Society in Great Expectations by Charles Dic

Great ExpectationsExplore some of the ways in which Dickens attitudes to overnice society are presented in the opening chapter of Great Expectations.For this quiz I will be focusing on the opening chapters of Great Expectations, a novel written by Charles Dickens. I am going to get the Victorian society at the time and dickens use of language to express themes, settings and characters.Charles Dickens wrote this myth in the Victorian times. Hence we seem to imagine what does he mean by Great Expectations. By us the readers, knowing and understanding what it means, we can get a rough idea of what the story is like. By Great Expectations we mean having high expectations for life, class and dreams for a better life. Dreams that a person really wants for it to come true. Hoping or expecting more than you have. This lays quite an effect on the reader, this is because the title Great Expectations doest say much. The title itself can give ideas to us the readers as to what the story wil l be like. For example they can suppose that the story is about someones great expectations in life, of a job, of a person and even of himself or herself. This story was set in the Victorian times, which was very in the mid 1800s and Charles Dickens wrote it in the 1860s. So life back then is very distinct as to how it is now. If we compare today to the Victorian era, we see people lived very different lives in many different ways. A few had access to educations, some didnt. Some were able to get a good high standard job and some didnt. At the time of Charles Dickens a lot of the people were poor, many suffered from poor health and had to cultivate all day late into the night. The few that were rich thought they were better ... ...rown with nettles, this tell us what the area is like and creates feelings in the reader. This also gives the impression that the halo is dull, depressing, empty and hopeless. This makes the reader feel that there is no hope for Pip. In con clusion I think Dickens has used language, setting and the theme of cobblers last etc in a very effective way. Dickens shows us the different ways of using language to introduce many themes and settings. He does this using different technique as he skilfully catches the readers attention in just through the first pages He involves the reader so pronto that they just keep on reading. This makes the readers feel it is important to know what happens next. However I myself and many many other readers will find that Dickens does keep his readers interested all the way through the story and it shows how good he is at it.