Great Expectations Style Analysis

In the novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens utilizes dirt and filth imagery to symbolize the immorality of society and display the differentiation between Pip’s previous life and his life in London. In illustration, when Pip first comes to London with his preconceived ideas of a rich and flashy city, he sees rather the opposite: “I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty” (151). Between London’s dirtiness and Mrs. Joe’s profuse cleaning of the house, the apparent opposition indicates the imminent feeling of differences in expectation of the city of Lond...