The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens most memorable scenes including the opening in a graveyard where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery poverty prison ships and chains and fights to the death and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture These include the eccentric Miss Havisham the be...