While reading through Great Expectations, I couldn’t help but think how much it seemed like reading Oliver Twist all over again. One reason for this might be that it was also written by Charles Dickens, so it has very similar imagery and the exact same time period. But there are other similarities too.
Dickens seems to be stuck on certain ideas. Both Pip and Oliver are young and childish. They both came from poverty, Oliver more so than Pip because he was an orphan. They were also both eventually adopted by rich people that they helped. This is supposed to be what happened to Dickens, but it gets old. Also, both stories have sort of dark and depressing themes. Pip is guilty, resentful, jealous, and ashamed, while generally bad things happen to Oliver. Also, by the end of Oliver Twist and up to this point in G.E. I sort of hate the main characters. They are both dishonest and whiney, like I would be too if I was in their situation, but it’s still not an endearing quality.
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