Great expectations.......... met! (Great Expectations - Charles Dickens)

Member Name: hayley

Product:	Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Date:	21/07/00 (291 review reads)
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Advantages: Brilliant characterisation

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'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest books in the English language. Dickens has a knack in all of his novels for creating atmosphere and drawing the reader into the darkness of Dickensian England. This book becomes alive with Dickens' careful choice of language in creating characters to care for and an atmosphere that is both claustrophobic and tense.

Estelle is a wonderful creation by Dickens. He makes us love and pity a stuck-up snob of a girl because he shows us her loneliness in the life she leads. Magwitch reverses all of our initial judgements and each character makes you feel something about them.

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