Literary Analysis Final Draft
Every time you think or do something, you either creating a harmless or harmful cause to it, then later you will receive its back just like people say: “karma comes back to you”. In Great Expectation, by Charles Dickens, “karma comes back to you" can be use to demonstrate Pip. The book is the story of Pip, an uneducated and unfortunate little boy, who receives a desirable fortune from an anonymous and becomes an upper-class gentleman. To be recognized that anonymous, Charles Dickens uses Magwitch as a convict to symbolize the plot, theme and the significance that change Pip’s life.
Charles Dickens employs Magwitch as a motif to create more vivid image for the reader to comprehend the plot, theme, and the significance that change the main character‘s life in the book. Charles Dickens applies this dialogue into his book to indicate the plot, Magwitch says, “‘But didn’t you never think it might be me?’” Pip returned: “‘Oh no, no…Never, never!’”(p.341). Charles Dickens uses this dialogue to raise the misunderstanding between Pip toward Miss Havisham by using Magwitch as Pip’s benefactor. During the conversation, Magwitch explains to Pip: “I swore afterwards, sure as ever I speculated and got rich, you should get rich. I lived rough, that you should live smooth.”(p.340) Dickens utilizes this quote to emphasize the theme of the story, which Pip saved Magwitch before, and now it Magwitch’s turn to recompense back to Pip. In other words, this quote applies to the real world by if you did something good in the future, it will rewards back to you. When Magwitch in the prison he suffers through the injury and died, Pip is in debt, “has scarcely any money, and began to be seriously alarmed by the state of [his] affairs.”(p.491) This quote is significant to the book, because Pip’s life changes dramatically after Magwitch’s death. Charles Dickens wants Magwitch to die, so he can let Pip to raise himself up as a man and not to depend on...