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Why is Great expectations written in first person?

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When an author chooses first person, he/she wants the reader to experience the story from the character's point of view. Dickens was a champion of the poor and underprivileged in England, so to write the novel from Pip's standpoint would allow the reader to have more sympathy for him. read more

Well, I just learned that of all the novels Charles Dickens wrote, only two are completely in first person: Great Expectations and David Copperfield. (Bleak House is partly in first person.) One can’t speak for Mr. Dickens, but it strikes me that a motive force in both these novels (but especially David Copperfield) of employing the first person is that they each partook of so much baldly autobiographical material. read more

What we love about this is that Pip manages to both tell us the story from his grown-up, all-knowing adult perspective (talking about himself in the third person), but also convey the real feeling of being a terrified, shivering 6-year-old. read more

“Great Expectations” was written during the age of Realism, so having a character telling his own story is a plausible way of putting the story in order, giving some information and not other, and making you feel that you are reading the story of a real person, not a character. read more

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