Magwitch essay

In Great Expectations, magwitch is not always nice. He is described by pip as “a convict”, and as a “violent man” He speaks rudely to Pip “Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!” and yet the readers like him. His character is mean yet in someway sensitive and nice.

The writer then shows how powerful Pip thinks Abel Magwitch is. “So that his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into his. ” This creates sympathy for Pip because he is helpless and alone. Dickens then emphasizes how helpless Pip is.

Abel Magwitch then talks about another character “Now, I aint alone, as you might think I am. There’s a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am an angel. ” This frightens Pip even more as he is already terrified of Abel Magwitch never mind another character.