GE #9

“My rapid mind pursued him to the town, made a picture of the street with him in it, and contrasted its lights and life with the lonely marsh and the white vapour creeping over it, into which I should have dissolved” (405). The “lonely marsh” that is visited many times acts as a motif of insecurity and exposure. It is here that Pip encounters the convicts on two different occasions early in his childhood. Pip later returns to the marshes, only to be captured by Orlick. The marshes present an image of uncertainty to the reader, Dickens therefore foreshadowing upcoming events that may hinder Pip’s journey.