Shows how Dickens uses the settings in Great Expectations to enhance our understanding of the characters and symbolic elements of the plot - Great ExpectationsShows how Dickens uses the settings in Great Expectations to enhance our understanding of the characters and symbolic elements of the plot. As we notice in the novel 'Great Expectations', Charles Dickens uses many different narrative techniques in addition to the usual description. One of these techniques is to describe the character through a specific setting. There are some of these very detailed descriptions in chapter eight (Satis House), chapter twenty (Mr. Jaggers' office), chapter twenty-one (Barnard's Inn), chapter twenty-five (Wemmick Castle) and chapter twenty-six (Mr. Jaggers' House ).When Pip first arrives at Satis House (chapter 8 pages 52-53) we have a very good description of the setting, and by looking at the adjectives we get a clearer idea of ​​the atmosphere it conforms to: "old ", "sad", "empty", "disused", "bricked up", "closed" and "rusty". There is a general sense of decay, and the last three adjectives in particular remind us of the image of a prison, which appears throughout the book. Also, confirming the presence of this image, the "large front entrance had two chains running across it on the outside" (chapter 8 page 54). , without taking care of her as she does not take care of herself, and indeed has blocked out the outside world and made Satis' house her own 'prison'. Jaggers' office is another highly illustrated location (chapter 20 page 160):...... half the paper ... little used' and 'three dark brown rooms on the first floor' (chapter 26 page 207). The “garlands carved on the paneled walls” (chapter 26, page 207) remind Pip of nooses, returning to the element of death We also note that Mr. Jaggers’ bookcase contains only books on “evidence, criminal law, criminal biography , trials and acts of parliament". ", and that there is also a "table with cards with a shaded lamp" (chapter 26 page 208): unlike Wemmick, he has no private life, but he also brings home the Work. He has no family or friends: the only important things in his life are his work. From this analysis we can see that in 'Great Expectations' Dickens very successfully uses many other narrative techniques other than basic description, and that the representation of settings can give us a great deal of information about characters and other aspects..