Great Expectations

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as well as a spooky image of Mr. Jaggers. Mr. Jaggers is a powerful character that is harsh, and everything about him seems frightening and fierce. The room indirectly gives an impression on what Mr Jaggers is like; his high armchair with horsehair nailed with brass nail, like a coffin. This armchair acts as a way of expressing his power. It is ironic how someone with so much power would use ‘horsehair’ (whereas a gentleman might use leather), killing an animal, to use as part of his furniture. And yet, this hair is nailed down onto the chair, as if the power would run away.
‘An old rusty pistol, a sword in a scabbard, several strange- looking boxes and packages.’ The objects that are lying around his room don’t seem like things that a real barrister would have laying around in his office. There is ‘not so many papers about’ which is also quite odd. ‘Two dreadful casts on a shelf, of faces peculiarly swollen, and twitchy about the nose.’ These casts being ‘twitching about the nose’ might act as the upper class are watch...