How Does Dickens Engage and Sustain the Reader in Great...

HOW DOES CHARLES DICKENS ENGAGE THE READER IN GREAT EXPECTATIONS? FOCUS ON CHAPTERS 1-8 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is considered to be the greatest book he has ever sold. By the time Charles Dickens had started his thirteenth novel, Great Expectations, he was a national hero. After living as a shoe polisher, the upper class citizens of England started to realise through his writing what was happening to their fellow lower class citizens. Dickens’ excellence in this book is shown right throughout. However, the way he engages the reader is even more fascinating. He uses many techniques and devices to engage the reader. Jus the title â€Å"Great Expectations† is a huge surprise and the reader would like to know what the†¦show more content†¦This gothic genre would engage the reader from the outset, because of its popularity in those days. This genre had surpassed the romance genre and many other genres in the 1860’s and it was the most popular genre round. Great Expectations has many other genres in it also, for example, comedy, however, the gothic genre stands out the most. The setting of Great Expectations is one of the main techniques Dickens has used to engage the reader. Right from the outset, he has persisted on vibrantly describing the setting. The setting enables the reader to picture the scene more carefully and vividly, and it engages them into the text because they can feel as if they are there. The setting in chapter one, right at the start, when Pip is in the graveyard; we are directly involved, because Pip describes it, so we see the surroundings in the first person narrative. Dickens uses this device cleverly to engage the author right from the beginning. The novel’s opening is set in a graveyard, the surrounding landscapes is described as â€Å"this bleak place overgrown with nettles.† This makes the reader feel vulnerable as they know that nature has overtaken them. 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