Charles Dickens manages to combine in his works wonderful story-telling, humour, pathos and irony with severe social criticism and acute observation of people and places, both real and imagined. His "Hard Times" and "Great Expectations" are good proof for the above statement. Both are written in the second period of Dickens' literary career, a period marked with pessimism, cynicism and indignation. Dickens demonstrates exactly that dark truth for the period in his two novels. He …
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…by realistic strategies of representation. She is clever and civilized woman. She sees through her flatteners, gets fond of Pip and treats Joe with courtesy. Her speech characterization shows that she is belonging to the middle-class people being refined and intelligent. Dickens uses both non-realistic and realistic strategies of representation of Satis House and Miss Havisham to create the true image of youth's great expectations broken down and how they influence a man's whole life.