17. Great Expectations (pg. 324): “... the fire was dead, and the wind and rain intensified the thick black darkness.”:
Dickens word choice in this section uses imagery and is also symbolic. The bleak imagery of the dead fire and the storm and darkness reflect Pip’s feelings. Pip is sad, and he feels lost now that he knows who his benefactor is. He had been certain that Miss Havisham was the one who had been helping him. Dickens finishes the second part of the book with this gloomy imagery. Pip’s sister is dead. He feels lost. All is black, dark, and stormy in his life. When the storm passes, we will find out how Pip will deal with things. Great Expectations was written in installments. This ending also served as a way to get the reader to keep looking for the next installment to find out what eventually happens.
Allingham, Phillip V. “An Introduction to Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations.” 31 July 2004. 29 December 2009. http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ge/pva10.html.
“Symbolism in Literature.” Scribd. 10 September 2008. 29 December 2009.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6472314/Symbolism-in-Literature. gentleman.
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these are great ideas -- but how many of them are yours? how can you use your references to act as springboards for your discussion? how can you make it clear to me the extent of your thoughts?
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