"Great Expectations" - Charles Dickens - Atmosphere/ambience and how it is developed (notes easliy converted to essay)

Speech * The speech of the narrator (Pip) and the characters affects the atmosphere of the story greatly. For example, a cold tone is used in Estella's speech to develop a harsh atmosphere. The tone of voice reflects the mood of the scene and often the atmosphere changes as the tone of the narrator and that of the character changes. * When the Pip is under certain circumstances, the narrator says things in a different way: the …

…tone or mood of a given scene. The atmosphere is developed from the setting, the speech of the characters and the tone of the narrator, some motifs, and names or name-phrases. The setting is the most important part of the developing of the atmosphere of a scene. The setting gives the time, weather and location or description of the location of the scene, which is important in the development of the atmosphere in Victorian novels.