Great Expectations

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gainst Pip. Dickens also expresses Pip’s vivid imagination as a child by using devices. The “wind” rushes from the “distant savage lair”. This metaphor is used to describe the sea from which the “wind is rushing” but to Pip, the wind is a wild beast and the “savage lair” is the den from which it comes. From the “marshes” Pip can see a “low leaden line”, this alliteration helps us to imagine the river, which looks like lead, and to Pip is lead and heavy like his mood. The weather is also hostile towards Pip. The “long angry red lines and dense black clouds intermixed in the sky” are frightening colours and the “darkness of the sky” all accentuate Pip’s vulnerability in this “graveyard” full of misery. Pip “shivers” in this “bleak” and “raw afternoon” in the middle of winter. Pip is in the middle of no-where and the weather even highlights the isolation Pip feels in this first chapter. Gothic Horror is used at the end of the first chapt...