... , Jo becomes the "Tough Subject". In fact "few people are known in Tom All Alone's by any Christian sign" (BH 358) Isolated from Christian civilisation, they have evolved into meer symbols of their harsh and inhumane expereince. That they lack this intergration makes their potential to take their revenge from the world that has bread them all the more poignant. In ... caution was not unheeded by Dickens. The shortcomings of those in charge could easily provoke "many a deed of violence and blooshed" especially if men continued to "calmly look at the evil before such dangers force it upon ...

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... a blacksmith, and it is quite appropriate, given Joe's helping Pip with his sister, that images used around Joe are warmth and light. Orlick is seen throughout the novel as an evil presence, and he is paralleled with the dark, glum, and dank marshes that he lives in. Another one of the main characters, Magwitch, around whom one of the main themes ... crying and shrieking. This is also part of Dickens" major theme of injustice, and he sets a negative tone to show his contempt for the system. The convicts awaiting sentence are symbols of the effects of this injustice. The judge's characte...

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