1. Realism in the fiction in the novel
... for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated consciousness of my race" (Penguin ed., Harmondsworth, 1968, pp. 159,203,253). In Great Expectations Dickens managed to reconcile realism, in the minute particularities of the individual life and the complexity and psychological truth of Pip's feelings, with an exciting plot and an extraordinary range of experiences and coincidence. We move from the real world of everyday ... his immature idealism. The discovery that the wretched Magwitch, not the wealthy Miss Havisham, is his secret ben...
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