The Theme of, "Love," in, Dickens', "Great Expectations."

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<Tab/>In the Novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens inserts a theme of love into the novel. Not always intimate love, and some times the complete lack of love, is used. Joe, Mrs. Havisham, and Magwitch are all themselves capable of different types of love. Dickens examines three kinds of love as seen in Joe, Miss Havisham, and Magwitch. <Tab/>First, love as seen with Joe. The home …

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…friends. She is living now. She is a lady and very beautiful. And I love her." (435) Magwitch's love for Pip is essential in the novel. If magwitch did not love Pip, there would be no novel. <Tab/>Dickens examines three kinds of love as seen in Joe, Miss Havisham, and Magwitch. Love in Great Expectations is 100% essential in the novel, if it was not present, the novel itself would not exist.