Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

The text low escortation marchs an pull from the newfangled Great expectations by Charles two who is integrity of the worlds grandest novelists of the 19th century famous for his upbraiding of the bourgeois society of his time with its evils and contrasts of wealth and poverty, his unique mastery of temperament drawing and optimistic summit of view concerning life and the world most him.The lecturer highly appreciates demons spirit of optimism, his love for popular people and his substantial belief in the last(a) victory of hefty over evil as puff up as his humour which is to be found on e rattlingly page and in characters and incidents of the greatest diversity. However, fiend possesses a great dramatic instinct which can be proven by the following extract. On a stormy rainy dark a new-fashioned troops named mop up is reading a retain when a hostile visitant interrupts him appearing unexpectedly. snap lets him in wondering what has brought the human to h is flat. firearm talking to him lash suddenly begins to recognize the guest whose strange behavior conf engrosss the young man. The alien turns extinct to be attains mysterious benefactor whom he helped escape from pursuit when a shaver and this fact reverses slash so much for he considers his present spot to be his receive achievement. The reprobate reveals secret after secret and does non conceal his p ride of takes being a ghostwriterable gentleman.The extract at a lower place esteem presents a piece of 1st person narration which proves to be more(prenominal) objective from the point of view of the novel protagonist with elements of colorful description and vivid portrayal intercepted with a duologue and flashbacks deepening the proof endorsers penetration into the character thoughts. The prevalent wittiness of the excerpt is gloomy, nervous and disturbing, full of anxiety and tension maintained by the weather behind the window of the frivol a appearances room with an note of approaching disaster.With every coming word the reason creates the melodic phrase of a l whizly stormy evening that make fors not only disaster scarce also renders the characters thoughts, his state of mind and soul, his vague venture of radical further inevitable modifys that argon both captivating ad dramatic. With the tonality of the narration gradu bothy shifting along the scale of strength the text under analysis can be split into quaternity logical move and the following names can be suggested for sever every last(predicate)y of them.The 1st fortune titled An anticipatory fear introduces the lector into the tier and forms the background against which all the events accede place. The 2nd one bears the name The oddish in the room acquainting the reader with the uninvited guest who is the embodiment of brain-teaser and enigma. The 3d set forth of the excerpt called The present meets the past provides the reader with closely new informat ion concerning the protagonists early life and reasons his present behavior.The final part which presents the climax of the extract can be named The revealing answering the psyches aro utilize in the previous parts. Let us consider each part of the text separately. The 1st part of the extract serves as introduction into a stormy and dark evening provoking the safe and sound chain of mysterious and striking events happening to the protagonist of the novel dissipate reading a book late at night in his small London flat at the top floor of the building.Every elaborate introduced by the author is called upon enhancing the gloominess of the atmosphere and preparing the reader for the events forthcoming. To intensify the miserableness of the weather of the weather the writer resorts to the whole palette of stylistic devices numerous repetitions (stormy and wet, stormy and wet, mud, mud, mud) to form the background against the events press place and gradually draw the reader into t he report card who comes across an opposite(prenominal) SD polysyndeton (and and and) that is another type of repetition which intensifies the increasing strain and incuring nervousness.Apart from that hellion metaphorically comp ars the clouds with a heavy veil which being vast, heavy and comprehensive covers the whole city reinforcing the image of inevitable disaster by agent of hyperbole (an eternity of cloud and wind, the worst day of all) lending an superfluous expressiveness to the narration. The wind is personified by the author and standardisedned to a terrible monster, primeval living organism which deals death and destruction and demolishes everything in its way (violent blasts, rages of the wind, the wind assails and tears the sound) in golf club to emphasize the implied feeling of the ramatic events coming. The lexical expressive means are strengthen by definite syntactic structures employd by Dickens to contri only whene to a more colorful and probable presen tation of the scene. The expressive intensive execration So furious had been the gusts brings additional vividness and glistening to the description is accompanied by a SD of detachment which primary hold up is to add significance to the part of the sentence straightforwarding itself in the following evince and gloomy accounts had come in from the coast, of shipwreck and death.The time is flowing carrying away the last meanings of dissipates peaceful reading and the final one is burned out by the Saint Pauls and all the many church-clocks striking. In this paragraph the authors godsend is the use of SD of onomatopoeia (the sound of the clocks striking leading, accompanying, following) that perfectly presents the com cast of the clock gong as a sign of approaching d passion or disaster.The fit construction of this sentence is okay up by anaphora accentuating the short state of affairs ( round some some). The SD of line of latitudeism is also used by the author in the n ext phrase The sound was curiously flowed by the wind and I was listening and thinking which is gradually bringing the reader to the 2nd part of the excerpt The extraterrestrial being in the room boost escalate the tense atmosphere of the 1st one.Gloomy prophesies turns out to be aline the strange uninvited guest is coming up the stairs to pry into gains apartment and Pips life. Dickens masterfully resorts to the SD of metonymy to maintain the air of mystery and growing suspense Pip hears a footstep, not a man (I heard a footstep on the stair, the footstep stumbled), talks to a voice that seems to be the echo of his own words (There is nothing the reflected by matter? Nothing the matter) presented by anadiplosis, sees a face larding the image of the stranger with a special extract of words including epithets rendering not only the characters thoughts but also enhancing the general sense of anxiety the whole extract is permeated with (nervous folly, abysmally connected, de ad sister, blown out lights, incomprehensible air, mere instant, the darkness beneath, a shaded lamp etc. ).The author has a firm grip on readers interest inserting an indefinite pronoun whoever which precedes the actual description of the night visitor built by the author with the help of antithesis (he was substantially dressed, but roughly), fable (like a voyager by the sea and tha wide use of various epithets (muscular man, strong on his legs, large brown venous hands, browned, hardened). His hair is metaphorically called iron-grey, and discernment by his appearance one might tell apart that this person is used to hard work.The paragraph is practically built on parallel constructions backed up by anaphoric repetition (that that) to cite the description of the stranger more expressive. Pip gets involved in the conversation with his visitor and we cannot but notice that these ruler characters are opposed to each other at different levels and in different ways both in diale ct and their attitude towards each other.All kinds of deviations from standard English phonetic (arter, fur). Grammatical (youve growd up, I have never forgot it, you was a saying, wot) and lexical (nigh, alonger) are typical for Pips guest speech as contrasted to Pips highly educated phraseology that forms the squelche gap amongst these two people that at first sight seems to be insuperable.Besides with the dialog intercepted the reader should pay the closest attention to the politeness the visitor addresses with to Pip (by your live, Master) and Pips inhospitable answers and nervous reactions honoring their expression in such words as resent the lore of brightness, unwilling, ask as civilly as he can revealing his inner uncrystallised fears and temporary mental state.One moldiness(prenominal) feel the constant intention of the stranger to reach to Pip, to express joy caused by the sight of him (bright and gratified recognition that shone in his face), holds out both his ha nds to Pip the phrase which runs like a refrain through the whole text merging its parts to a single whole and totally get laids the view of Pips flat looking near him as if he had some part in the things he admired.Ascribing some positive intentions to the strange visitor on the one hand the author intensifies Pips interdict attitude towards him on the other, laying an emphasis on the fact that Pip suspects the stranger to be mad, recoils from him talking to the interlocutor even in roughly humiliating way (Why do you, a strange coming into my retinue at this time of the night, ask that question? ) when the first hint at disappointment of the night visitor gradually realizing him being an uninvited guest appears expressed by the epithets (his coarse broken voice) and his moment hesitation presented by epiphoric repetition (Ill speak in half a minute.Give me half a minute, please) although his strong believe in Pip and his admiration remain unshakable. The atmosphere of growin g suspense and tension maintained in the previous part bursts into a come up-considered moment of recognition causing a tsunami of thoughts and feelings that threatens to devour the principle character. Pips night guest turns out to be the inmate he helped escape from pursuit long time ago and forthwith this man so suddenly and unscrupulously interferes with Pips life.In order the reader forms a clear view of the situation, the author gives a flashback into the past events proceeding the present ones with a perfect use of causative-consecutive ties and connections. It is necessary to point out that repetition takes various forms in this paragraph. By means of anaphoric reiteration (For I knew him, but I new him, I knew him in a flash ) the writer sets an unmistakable rhyme reinforcing with every beat of Pips heart his feeling of realization and anxiety that is immediately communicated to the reader.No look at to take a file, no need to take the handkerchief, no need to hug him self there is something sinister about the fact that the phrase no need to is repeated so many times that the reader may find disturbing. As always when a repetition takes place, it results in a parallel arrangement of constructions (had driven away, had scattered, had swept us to the churchyard) which is meant to accentuate certain world-shaking details of the past horrible for Pip.The constant use of the verb to k straight which is emphatically a key word of the paragraph deserves special attention, as it is diligent so as to emphasize the very fact of recognition. Moreover, the author resorts to a special choice of words aimed at lending an additional expressiveness to the moment described to produce the greatest achievable effect achieved by the smallest possible means to detect, to recall, feature, recognition, identity, suspect, consciousness, distinctly etc.The dramatic opposition of the characters previously introduced by Dickens finds its further development in the cou rse of narration when being under the influence of moment hesitation Pip finally gives his hands to the yardbird reluctantly who grasps them heartily, and kisses them, and holds them which forms a kind of antithesis in the attitude of the personages towards each other. While the inmate interprets Pips unconscious resignation as a good sign even going to embrace him, the protagonist overcomes his shock and astonishment to sustenance the distance (I aid a hand upon his chest and put him away) raising his voice in a fit of anger and in his desperate desire to be as far from this man as possible. The author favors reiterations in great abundance expressing one and the akin idea from different angles to reveal Pips hesitation, insufficiency of self-assurance with the help of root repetition (grateful, gratitude, to thank, to be thanked), anaphora (I am glad, I am glad) and chiasmus (I deserve to be thanked, you have come to thank me).As the author puts it Pip loses his self-poss ession not turn ining what to do and the SD of aposiopesis (But surely you must understand I) is an excellent proof of it. The last phrase of the sentence bringing up the paragraph may be regarded as a logical summing up of what was previously said presenting the reader with a fantabulous metaphor the words died away on my tongue proving to be an nonesuch of Pips temporary state of numbness and shock.While analyzing the text we must take into account the fact that both characters are presented in exploitation but each of them in his own unique way. At the line of descent of the excerpt Pip is self-confident, self-reliant, a bit arrogant considering himself to be a master of the situation although this state does not last long. Pip tries to keep at the same level of formality but he is frustrated, nervous, anxious. Pip recognizes him but hes unwilling to renew the chance conference with him (But our ways are different ways).In the course of narration he suffers lack of words and numbness sequence concerning the convict Dickens makes a well-thought-out alert in the mood of the personage shifting from friendly tone to moderately ironic and self-assured one. The convict also repeats himself but deliberately as it produces quite a different, even opposite impression on the reader his speech is now imbued with bitter disappointment and irony seems to be a perfect tool for its expression.Apart from this he tries to sound poetic (many a one thousand mile of stormy water, since you and me was out on them lone shivering marshes) and all the dialect and uneducated features of his speech prominent not only in phonetics, but also in vocabulary and syntax cannot prevent the reader from perception of his romantic nature. In the stream of consciousness Pip turns polish off to his past again remembering some significant details about his acquaintance with the convict.Dickens resorts to anaphora (I was a poor male child, and to a poor boy they) to lay a special s tress on the fact mentioned intensifying it with oxymoron (they were a little fortune) to lend probability and additional expressiveness to the description of Pips joyless childhood full of hardship and privation. The fact that the convict gave some money to Pip finds its reflection in the present when Pip is trying to repay to him to split all the bonds between them and get rid of the feeling of obligation. The protagonists actions insult the convict who does not criminal maintenance of money, intense them down.It is necessary to point out that Pips actions are connected polysyndetically to indicate Pips hurriedness and nervousness whereas the convicts actions are joined asyndetically displaying perfectly his self-reliance. The contradictions of the convicts manifest themselves in the recurring SD of chiasmus (with a smile that was like a frown, and with a frown that was like a smile) employed by the author confuse Pip even more when the night guest puts a question truing to soun d greatly and deeply ironically May I make so bold as ask you how you have done well? laying a special stress on how which is italicized. The question influences Pip in a strange and frightening way and the author reinforces his recondite fears using the emphatic it-structure in the following sentence It was only now I began to tremble in order to mark the moment when Pips numbness is ready to set him free giving way to much wilder feelings and emotions. To impart to the paragraph its own stylistic esteem Dickens resorts to the SD of metonymy (lips had parted and shaped some words that were without sound) to deepen Pips hesitation and feeling of uncertainty.The question is piled on the question while the convict deliberately disparages himself (a mere warmint) to let Pip feel in full measure, keenly, acutely the convicts ironic attitude towards him as a naive boy who thanks his lucky stars having no slightest idea of his real benefactor. Along with the epithet wildly the author make use of a colorful simile with my heart beating like a heavy hammer of disorder action and the SD of suspension (as to the first digit now.Five? As to the 1st letter of this layers name, now. Would it be J? ) to introduce the reader into the final part of the extract under consideration containing the denouement of the whole text. The final part of the text presents the climax of the excerpt with Pips state of shock being underlined in a number of ways and exaggerated. The authors chief weapon is hyperbole. The abundant use of hyperbolic plural orms (disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences) blended with metaphoric (all the truth of my position came flashing on me, rushed in in such multitude) and some other hyperbolic expressions (I was borne down, had to struggle for every breath, could not have verbalize one word though it had been to save my life, suffocating) give the reader a vivid sense of revelation befallen Pip who is about to faint which is proven metapho rically by the author (the room began to surge and turn) as well as metonymically (bringing the face that I now well remembered).The final part is based on the SD of suspense which makes the idea of revelation more prominent and surely holds the readers attention till the very last word. The use of emphatic it-construction (Its me wot has done it ) deepens the readers understanding of it. The last paragraph is practically built up on parallel constructions backed up by anaphoric repetitions (as ever I earned a guinea, that guinea should go to you, as ever speclated and got rich, you should get rich) and the SD of antithesis (I lived rough, that you should live smooth, I worked hard that you should be above work).Rhetorical questions that do not need any answers but stimulate some meditations upon the real state of affairs strengthen the crash of all Pips great expectations. Disparaging himself deliberately the convict desires to sacrifice a give out for Pips sake that emphasizes hi s magnanimity and Pips pettiness. The young mans happiness is the only compensation he needfully and exclaiming I could make a gentleman and, Pip, you are him he sounds proud and satisfied with what he has done.In his novel Dickens touches upon some burning issues of his time in a life story of a young man whose being poor and lonely gets a chance to change all his life with the help of money and the power they give abandoning his friends and family, almost betraying the only people who ever loved him. With an ironic and satiric touch the author uncrowns all the great expectations of the young man who is subject to go through disappointments of his adult life much harder to overcome than childhood ones. For me the great value of the extract consists in my desire to read the whole story appeared while analyzing this text.To tell you the truth Ive watchd some polemically feelings reading this passage trying to understand it completely and utterly. As they say good deeds are those you are not telling of so no matter how proud you are of your success and your achievements concerning some other persons destiny you should not come to him to point out the connection between your actions and his fortune in order to avoid the pestering feeling of obligation, especially in exemplar you do not know this person well enough to make him feel obliged.From my personal experience I cannot but say that friends and family will realize themselves whether they should thank you or not, as regards some other people youve ever secretly helped sometimes its even a pleasure to watch them coping with their lives crafty that youve taken part in their success but keeping it to yourself to enjoy privately. Good deeds will be rewarded in any case no need to force people thanking you or this gratitude will bring no good.