ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The novel Great Expectation has a many of important themes such as suffering, social problems, poverty and inequity. So, the study aims at presenting and analyzing the theme of suffering in Dickens’ novel Great Expectation.

Detailed explanation-2: -In all of his works, Dickens explores themes of want, exploitation, crime, abuse, and corruption that were inspired by his own childhood experience of poverty and social observations gathered from visits and travels to different areas of several countries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Throughout David Copperfield, the powerful abuse the weak and helpless. Dickens focuses on orphans, women, and the mentally disabled to show that exploitation-not pity or compassion-is the rule in an industrial society.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Dickens uses suffering as a major theme in his anti-aristocratic novel, Great Expectations. In some cases, suffering is seen as heartbreak. While others, it is seen as a lesson being learned. It is shown throughout the story as the characters’ actions, talks, and descriptions of other characters’.

Detailed explanation-5: -One of the main themes of all Charles Dickens’ novels was how the poorest people in society were treated the worst. This is one of the key themes in Oliver Twist, where we can see the failure of the workhouse system that was unable to look after the poor and lonely orphans that were in their care.