... his books were published in magazines. His more popular works included Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens was mostly happy but his marriage was basically a waste. He wrote Great Expectations while he was getting a divorce. Many critics including Jerry Fredericks think his problems with his wife is the reason he originally made Pip and Estella never get together. His ... . She wants to be friends with Pip and as the story ends Dickens leaves you thinking that after all that has happened Pip and his life long crush Estella might actually end up ...

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... period in time. This was mainly because of the closeness to Newgate Prison and the Old Bailey, the criminal courts. This alludes to the fact that this area of London is the centre of the criminal world, and hence the reason that Dickens allows Pip in the Great Expectations to visit the area. The name of the area of London is also important as it gives the reader a sense that this is only a little ... bit of Britain but what it is mainly concerned with. This first impression of London is once again provided to the ... reader through the eyes of ... ...

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... limit his exploration of reality; "I go to encounter 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 life into the non-rational or grotesque world outside time an...

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