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daemon employs a rich variety of settings and characters to embody the continual spit out between darkness and light central to his new(a) Great Expectations. Examine how the root has captured this symbolic battleGreat Expectations By Charles DickensDickens employs a rich variety of settings and characters to embodythe continual struggle between darkness and light central to his novelGreat Expectations.Examine how the author has captured this symbolic battle, and how ithas been dramatically linked to Pips ever-changing fortunes.Dickens captures the symbolic battle between the darkness and thelight by employing a wide diversity of settings and characters torepresent the ever-changing situations that Pip is in. The charactersare incessantly correlative to the background to convey the lessons thatDickens wants to represent and he uses the characters to (more or less)tell the story, which gives the novel an almost theatrical, feel likethe backgrounds are painted to suit the event. The author makes iteasy for us to imagine the setting which creates these very dramatic,colourful backdrops in our imagination, by creating the mood and theatmosphere of the book.A continual question that is kept end-to-end the story is whetherPips aggressive military position has anything to do with his working classbackground and how uneducated he is? As the reader we can entirelyconclude this question right at the end of the novel, when Pipessentially aspires to his Great Expectations and his new status.Pip has two sides to his ever-changing character, a good side and abad side which is very much influenced by where he is or what ishappening. It becomes clear as the novel progresses that whenever Pipis with Mr Joe Gargery his, loving, kind side is always brought out. Joe is always linked to the brighter side of nature, a man who neverthinks or talks ill of anyone. It is Joes influence and presencethat is evidently replicated upon Pip in this quote There I stood,for minutes, l ooking at Joe, already at work with a glow of health andstrength upon his face that made it show as if the bright sun of thelife in store for him were shining on it. Whereas whenever Pip is inthe company of Miss Havisham who is forever linked to darkness, terminaland decay I saw Miss Havisham going along it in a ghostly manner,making a low cry, She sat, corpse-like we are assumption the impressionthat Pip becomes torn between the two different worlds. This is dueto the fact there is this bright star, Estella who brings light into