Great Expectations by Charles Dickens outlines and follows the life of the young boy Pip who grows up to live the life he has always dreamed of. In describing this story Dickens incorporates a number of themes into the novel but none is more prevalent than that of the Victorian judicial ... presence of the prisons, the transportation ships and the death penalty. Dickens also uses his characters to continually exert the presence of this theme as many of the main characters, predominantly after Pip childhood, are representatives of the Victorian penal and judicial system. These characters inclu...

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