How does Charles Dickens create sympathy for Pip in the novel Great Expectations?
… (Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol and of course Great Expectations). ‘Great Expectations’ is a perfect example of how Dickens was attempting to inform his readers on the struggle some people faced to be accepted into a new class. He created a story that made the contrast between rich and poor clear and concise. It was his honesty and description that made him a very successful Victorian author. There are two messages that come across in the story. The more sinister being, ‘upper class people are treated better the lower class people’. Dickens intention wasn’t to make the upper class feel guilty, especially as they would have been the people most likely to be reading his book, it was purely to make them more aware of the way other people live and how hard some people try just to fit in. ‘Great Expectations’ is the story of Pip, and his …
