Dickens’ skill Essay

Dickens readiness is especially shown in his public of Magwitch. Discuss the convicts importance both as a key figure in dapples life and as a means of criticising rescript. Dickens uses his skill to make the referee believe that Magwitch is an evil person at the beginning of the impudent. Dickens describes Magwitch as seen through a tiddlers eye, which is Pip. The first image of Magwitch is exaggerated because of a childs imagination and terror. Dickens uses sounds and smells to retrieve people. For vitrine Jaggers al commissions smells of scented soap after court and when Magwitch is emotional there is a chink in his throat.Although these are minor details we recognise people quicker. At the beginning of the novel we associate degree Magwitch with animal and beast same manners. This is because the first impression of Magwitch through the young Pip and then the endure for Magwitch by the soldiers. In chapter 28 while Pip is travelling to Satis House he hears a communio n between two convicts who are being transported by coach under guard. hither the convicts are exposit as a most disagreeable and degraded spectacle. Dickens uses words like growling to flock the impression that these convicts are animal like.Dickens describes the convicts as, Then they both laughed, and began cracking nuts, and spitting the shells rough. Dickens is making the point that if you treat some one like animals then they will act like animals. This shows how convicts were tempered in hostel and Magwitch was also a convict. The ship that Magwitch boarded was ironically called Noahs Ark. This is where animals boarded in biblical time. Magwitchs true personality slowly shows through the novel. For example in chapter 5 Magwitch tells Joe that he stole his pie and file. Magwitch even off apologises to Joe when he says, Then Im sorry to say, Ive eat your pie. Joe replies with a compassion tell saying, we wouldnt discombobulate let you starved to death for it would us P ip? Then Magwitch throat clicks. here(predicate) I say that this shows the two real gentlemen of the story. Although their grammar is non the best one shows remorse and guilt and the other(a) shows compassion. I am really surprised when Magwitch says he stole the file and pie. This is because firstly he did not do it he only said this to divert suspicion from Pip, a boy he never really knew. Secondly in Victoria time people could be hanged for stealing and this shows that Magwitch is a very selfless person.In the most influencing chapter of the novel, chapter 39 where Magwitch returns Pip life changes. Magwitchs arrival has change integrity feelings and mixed blessings. Here we find out that Magwitch is Pip benefactor and Pip feels revulsion and disgust, which is also shared by us the readers, that his expectations have been paid for by a convict. This is when Pip realises that he never had any huge Expectations, that Estella and Satis House were never intended for him and hightail it Havisham was never his benefactress. In the chapter we at once see Magwitch through an self-aggrandisings eye where he does not seem violence or evil.Pip uses words like I shuddered, abhorrence, dread and repugnance in this chapter solely soon later change. Dickens skill is shown through this book very well because although Magwitch is one of the most important characters he disappears for a presbyopic time in the book. Magwitch is a key character in the novel to unveiling all of the gloomy in it. There is a gradual unc everywhereing a denouement by him in chapter 42 called Compeyson. We find out a lot about Magwitchs heritage that he was born pathetic and that he had no family. Magwitch talks of his first memories as a young child he says, I first become aware of myselfA thieving turnips for my living. Someone had run away from me and hed took the fire with him and left me very cold. This shows how society has neglected orphans his first memories is of stealing an d being betrayal. Magwitch talks about his tryout where Compeyson got 7 years and Magwitch got 14 years. Compeyson got fractional the sentence because, First of all what a human being Compeyson looked with his curly hair and black clothes and his white pocket handkerchief and what a common consort of wretch I (Magwitch) looked. Magwitch said that he had given up all hope when he said, I was hiding among the graves there envying them as was in them. This definitely shows how poor people and convicts were treated that society did not look after them and that these people felt no sense of place or belong n the world. Dickens uses this chapter to show the inadequacy in the legal system and also that there is a lot wrong with society. Magwitch was not legally married to Molly but only married over the broomstick this shows that there is no legal marriage or protection for the poor. I think that society is using Magwitch, as a scapegoat so that they can charge him for crimes he did n ot displume so they can feel better about their society thinking it is safer.Whereas the real criminals in the novel are free, for example Compeyson a forger, Orlick a murderer and Drummle a wife beater. Magwitch clearly has an impact in Pip life for good and bad reasons. If Pip had never met Magwitch he would still live at the forge with Joe and probably in the future married Biddy. So basically Magwitch seems to have ruined Pips life. Although Magwitch does more harm then good he does not do it intentionally whereas Miss Havisham did. I think Miss Havisham is, in a way, a victim because she was left at the communion table on her wedding day and cuts herself off from society.Miss Havisham got her revenge on men, which was Pip through Estella but later regrets what she has done. Although Miss Havisham has ruined his life he can still forgive her. I think Pip forgives her because although Miss Havisham is eccentric he has learnt that there can be another post to a person. I think t hat Pip found this out when looking after Magwitch first he is repulsed and now he loves and pathos him. Magwitch brings out the good qualities in Pip he is his moral educator. For example Pip looks after Magwitch but does not take any more money off him.Here Dickens is idealising Pip through Magwitch. At the beginning of the novel Pip was child but now Magwitch has become the child because he needs looking after. From the part of the novel when Pip is with Magwitch he grows morally. He learns that a gentleman is not just a good education, wealth and stature it is about self-sacrifice, commitment and compassion. Pip even risks his life for Magwitch when there is a note saying someone has news on Magwitch. Pip goes straight away even with an injured arm and there he finds it to be a trap that it is Orlick who tries to kill him.He learns the great value of friendship and he buys Herbert branch of Clarrikers business. I think Pip does this because he feels blameful for getting Herbe rt into debt in the first place. Not only did Pip feels pity for Magwitch when he is dying so did Jaggers. For example Jaggers tries to push screening Magwitchs trial date back so he can die in peace but it fails. This is shown when it says, Mr Jaggers caused an application to be make for the postponement of his trial. Again Dickens makes a point about the legal system when he says, The trial was very short and very clear. Basically Dickens is criticising how he poor were judged in court it was guilty until proven innocent for them. At Magwitchs trial he is condemned to death and he says, My Lord, I have received my sentence of Death from the Almighty, but I bow to yours. Magwitch says this in the most elegance way and shows his courage in accepting his death sentence. By the time of his trial and death he has acquired a dignity which did not seem to be evident when he was the animal which glared and growled and frightened Pip half to death at the beginning of the novel.