Previous Next. Chapter 56 Magwitch is really sick. Two of his ribs are broken and his lung is punctured. He can't breathe well and he can't speak. Pip visits him every day, and every day Magwitch looks worse and worse. Jaggers tries to postpone Magwitch's trial but to no avail. The trial comes, and Pip is allowed to stand next to Magwitch and to hold his hand. He's totally freaked out by the trial, because it feels like a show or a spectacle. Over thirty convicts and criminals who are to receive the death penalty stand in the courtroom while lots of onlookers gather in the rows and in the balconies.
He has quite a dramatic change in personality between the earlier and later parts of the book. In the first part of the novel, Magwitch is an escaped convict who meets the young Pip while he is on the run.
Pip supplies Magwitch with food and a file to help him in his escape. At this point in the story Magwitch is a frightening figure often compared to a hunted animal. Magwitch is recaptured and is transported to Australia so he disappears from the novel for quite a while.
He reappears under the name of 'Provis' many years later when Pip has grown up and is living in London after coming into money from a mysterious benefactor. By this time Magwitch is a much older and somewhat kinder figure — though he is still tough and determined to achieve his goals. It eventually becomes clear that Magwitch:.
Although he terrifies Pip when he is a boy, Magwitch grows to love Pip as his own son and tries to help him to become a gentleman later in life. Pip also comes to love and respect the older Magwitch.
John Dickens, the father of Charles Dickens, was imprisoned in the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison for unpaid debt in when Charles was just 12 years old. A person in a prison of this kind would have had to stay until they had worked off their debt through labour, or secured enough money from outside funds in order to pay off the balance. So crime and punishment is a subject that the writer had strong opinions on. Dickens felt that treating convicted criminals badly might only lead them into even more criminal activity and that given a chance in life, a person's natural goodness would often win through.
He demonstrates this with Magwitch who, given a fresh start in Australia, is able to use his talents more fully, make his fortune and then return to Britain a better person. Does Dickens ask his readers to sympathise with Magwitch?
How to analyse the quote:. How to use this in an essay:. When Magwitch comes to trial he is sentenced to death. Pip tells him that his daughter Estella is a beautiful lady. Pip falls ill and is almost arrested for debt. When he recovers he finds that Joe has been looking after him. When Pip enquires about Miss Havisham, Joe tells him that she has died.
Most of her estate has been left to Estella. Pip gradually recovers. Joe pays off his debt.
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