Mrs. Joe is described with untypical restraint as 'not a good-looking woman', and the general lack of excess in the descriptions of her role as Pip's childhood ogre make her far more realistic. When the novel's abundant sense of poetic justice sees her being incapacitated by the assault (the weapon, a discarded leg-iron, a symbol of Pip's guilt) we do not miss her as we would if she was a funnier 'bad' character becau

In conclusion , if the novel had been missing this literary technique it would have been far more boring and probably wouldn't have had such a strong impact.

se she is so grimly credible. Miss Havisham goes beyond her superficial resemblance to a fairy-tale goblin to attain tragic credibility. A gross monument to the unproductiveness of money and the hollowness of expectation, she tries to block out time and nature in her home, but is ruin in the attempt. Estella has been called Dickens's first credible heroine, and even as she is too passionless to be truly realistic she remains a powerful representation of the tenderness of polite society, ever more unhappy in her attempts to maintain the self-assurance that has been bred in her. She is a beautiful husk who has been reared only to be superficial and superficially admired ("Is she beautif

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)