12. Great Expectations (pg. 165): “So, I rubbed it off with all possible speed by turning into a street where I saw the great black dome of St. Paul’s bulging at me from behind a grim stone building which a bystander said was Newgate Prison.”:
This quote depicts Pip's first impressions of London. He is going for a walk down the street and notices the dirtiness and stench of the city. Dickens puts two very contrasting images into one scene: Saint Paul's cathedral. a place for worship and Newgate Prison, a place for people who have been charged with crimes. Using imagery, Dickens reinforces his theme of good and bad by symbolizing crime and guilt with the prison and mirroring this with the cathedral which represents innocence.
“Dickens’ London.” David Purdue’s Charles Dickens Page. 1997-2010. 23 December 2009. http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london_map.html#N.
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