Great Expectations by Charles Dickens outlines and follows the life of the young boy Pip who grows up to live the life he has always dreamed of. In describing this story Dickens incorporates a number of themes into the novel but none is more prevalent than that of the Victorian judicial and penal system. This theme remains constant throughout the novel and finally culminates at the end. Dickens imposes his ideology of the Victorian penal and judicial system onto the character of Pip and uses him to allow the readers to witness what he believes to be the faults of the system and therefore society. To do this Dickens includes many aspects of the penal and judicial system including the presence of the prisons, the transportation ships and the
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