Memorable and striking characters Essay

A nonher fashion in which Charles dickens creates memorable and striking characters is by the direction he describes how the characters look, as in my depression a description of what they look interchangeable helps me to recall the characters. We set-back go out Abel Magwitch rather than see him. When we do hear him we learn that he has a terrible voice. On our first impressions we could infer he is a ghost as ogre produces, As a reality started up from among the graves. Then a full description of Magwitch begins and Dickens throws smokestacks of descriptive words at us in a Sapphic manner.Magwitch is first described as A fearful man in exclusively in coarse grey With a great iron on his leg. This is very monosyllabic, suggesting a very basic man. This withal straight dash gives us the impression that he is an fly convict, which later in the account we find out he is. In Victorian times an escaped convict would have filled the reader with utter fear. Dickens wi thal says that Magwitch isnt wearing any hat, which would be regarded as disrespectful, and that he is not a gentleman, as he isnt wearing a hat.Dickens likewise uses a lot of verbs in the description regarding the musical mode Magwitch looks, such as soaked smothered lamed cut stung and torn which suggests that the surroundings is hostile towards him and that it has disabled him in some way. There is excessively a strong sense of rhythm throughout the description, for physical exertion soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles and torn by briars. The Cut by flints is almost onomatopoeic in that it gives a choppy monosyllabic effect to capture the act.Dickens finishes rancid his description of Abel Magwitch by writing verbs alike(p) shivered, limped, gl ared and growled. The glared and growled gives us alliteration and proves righteous how animal like he is, as Magwitch is conveyed as beast like in a wilderness, wh o is hunted by society. When blip first sees put down Havisham he describes her as The strangest lady he had ever seen. There is so a full description of expend Havisham that proves in force(p) how strange and emotionally s complaintd she is. Dickens says that she is dressed in rich materials- satins, and lace, and silks, we can declare from this that is an extremely upper branch woman.We start to authorise she is strange when Dickens says everything she wore was white. When he says white, we associate it with a wedding and we learn that she was abandoned at the altar later in the book. She has been at Manor/ Satis house for a long time, we can tell this when Dickens says, The dress she wore had lost its lustre, and was worn out(p) and yellow, and also when he says The bride within the bridal dress had wizened like the dress. We can tell there is no take to left in her and that she is miserable when Charles Dickens says she has Sunken eyes. in a flash spud sees her as Gh ostly waxwork. Miss Havisham is regarded as waxwork, as skin and bones scarcely also as a skeleton. She is like the living dead, if you excuse the oxymoron. The way the characters behave is another way in which Charles Dickens creates his memorable and striking characters. Magwitch behaves in a totally capricious way with smear, for example he turns Pip up incline down, which is a typic action for when he turns Pip upside down, its like he has off-key Pips life upside down, which he eventually does.Magwitch also behaves differently as when he finds some bread in Pips pocket he eats the bread ravenously, which makes us realise just how hungry and animal like Magwitch is. Magwitch behaves very roughly with Pip as we can see from the descriptions Took me by both arms, and tilted me masking as far as he could h rare me. This is the action of a man who is desperate and needs Pips help. Miss Havisham also behaves not just fishily still the way she behaves is grotesque, as she tell s Pip I have sick fancies, and I have sick fancies that I want to see some dramatic event.I mean who says that to a young boy, its just disgusting. She also orders Pip almost as soon as he gets through the door, I think that this is because she thinks that just because she is a wealthy she has the right to order Pip about because he is a works class boy. Another way in which she behaves strangely is that she talks out loud but doesnt seem to care if Pip can hear or understand what she is dictum. The last way in which Dickens creates both memorable and striking characters is by the way he makes them speak.Speech is a very important vehicle in characterisation as it determine a lot about the characters, for example where they are from and their social class. When both Magwitch and Miss Havisham speak, they both use imperatives but we realise that Magwitch needs to bed imperatives out of necessity whereas Miss Havisham wants to issue imperatives because she feels she can because sh e is an upper class woman and Pip is a working class boy. We realise that there is a lot of communication among Magwitch and Pip, but when Pip is with Miss Havisham he is the audience.We also realise that Magwitch uses you all the time whereas Miss Havisham uses I all the time, as she is full of self-absorption. When we first hear Abel Magwitch speak, he speaks with such force and aggression that we think he is a dangerous man. When Magwitch speaks he uses lots of imperatives, such as apply still or Ill cut your throat and H gray your illegitimate enterprise these two judgment of convictions are also part of a number of sentences that are monosyllabic. Dickens also uses lots of dialectal grammar for example, Tell us your reveal. When Magwitch says Pint out the place this suggests that he may be from a particular region as pint is a dialectal word. When Magwitch says What expand cheeks you ha got it is kind of comical in a way as Magwitch is so hungry he is wanting to eat Pi ps cheeks. When Magwitch turns away as he thinks that Pips mother is near we can tell that he lives a life of constantly been afraid. by and by Pip says that both his parents are dead Magwitch says Ha but this Ha is not an evil ha, it is a desperate man trying to intemperate sarcastic muttering, which proves just how desperate he is.When he learns that Pip is an strip we see a side of him, a warm kind side when he asks all these questions, and Magwitch realises that he can depend on Pip. When he orders Pip by saying, You get me a file, and you get me wittles, and you bring em both to me we notice the repetition of the word you that suggests that Magwitch is desperate and in a panic, and that Pip (this young boy) is the only person who can help him. When Magwitch describes the man who is in hiding with him, he creates the most horrific and violent imagery, which and so scares Pip.When Pip says Goo- good night sir Magwitch replies with Much of that, I wish I was a frog, or an e el which proves just how much he hates himself, and that he wants to be someone/ something else, and with that he goes limping into the distance. When we first hear Miss Havisham she comes across as a little, sad, vulnerable, weak, feeble old lady when she says Who is it? however, even though she says this, it arouses our suspicions because she was the person who invited him, so therefore, is haveing him.When Miss Havisham is speaking there is a lot of commands that are styled as imperatives. Miss Havisham starts to open out when she says You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the son since you were born? When she says this, it is efficacious sibilance it is also taunting and full of utter spite. What do I foregather broken this sentence is Miss Havishams monologue, it is also full of spite, this sentence is also a very odd thing to say to a young boy such as Pip.When Miss Havisham says, I am tired, I want diversion, and I have done with men and women, play we see t hat it is all about her, it is full of self-absorption, as she is always saying I the readers also realise that something is not quite right when she says this sentence. She thence becomes extremely insulting towards Pip when she says Are you Sullen and Obstinate which proves that Miss Havisham is extremely well educated owing to the long sentences and the complex phrase she employs.She also talks in riddles when she says So new to him, so old to me, so strange to him, so familiar to me which is not only compare herself to Pip, but when she says this sentence, its like she doesnt care if Pip hears and understands her or not. Miss Havisham doesnt think that Pip can do anything for himself and she proves this by saying You can do that. Call Estella. At the door, which is social club Pip to call Estella in a strange house.I think this is one reason why Pip feels very uncomfortable in Manor house, as it is totally outside his experience- a working class boy in the presence of middle/ high-class society. When Miss Havisham says to Estella swell you can break his heart we see what her plan is and Miss Havisham is also been very horrible. When she asks Pip, what does he think of Estella? She is being a bit cheeky, quite controlling and very mean, but it is the only sentence she says to him politely.When he does say (in her ear) Miss Havisham keeps prompting him, which in my thought is very taunting, but boilers suit that is what Miss Havisham is. So to conclude there are three of import ways, in which Charles Dickens creates his memorable and striking characters. Firstly by the way he describes the setting, secondly by the way Dickens delineates the characters, for example the way the characters look and behave and thirdly by the way the characters speak.We have learnt that Abel Magwitch is a kind, desperate man who needed Pips help, and that Miss Havisham is a strange, grotesque, mean old lady who just likes to boss people around, having said this, in my opi nion the reader feels a small amount of sympathy for her. We wouldnt expect that Magwitch and Miss Havisham are totally reversed on our first impressions, but the whole theme is about our expectations. Dickens has created a number of successful characters, and because of their capturing description we can hear and see the characters, and because we know them and Dickens has brought them alive, we remember them for the rest of our lives.