English Coursework

How does Dickens take sympathy for Pip in Great Expectations? Great Expectations is one of Charles Dickens novels and Dickens himself is one of the worlds most widely read author. Born 1812 at a time when everything was changing. Dickens had a diffucult childhood at one point his father was sent to Marshalsea debtor’s prison where this lead Charles to be taken out of school and sent to a blacking factory to help support his family. He felt rejection first hand from experiencing child labour and gained himself a strong and social conscience and a genuine desire to change society for the better.