The Yorkshire Coast

Collins portrays this setting as a haunted place with a defunct feel to it. Collins uses lots of different melancholy words such as ‘shivering and trembling’ and ‘lonesome and horrid’ to give us the sense of sadness and a sense that this place has been deserted and is not loved. This overall gives us the impression that this place is still stained by something that might of happened to it long ago.

Collins displays that no children play in this part of the yorkshire coast. Having Collins portray ‘no children…ever come to play here’ gives this part of the yorkshire coast a melancholy feel because no children playing here means no joy because kids are always joyous. This gives the feeling that this place is not for the younger members of society and doesn’t have many people living near it.

 

 

 

Pip and Ishmael

Neither Pip or Ishmael had a dominant super ego in their lives. Pip never knew his parents and ultimately parents are the ones who create the super ego in that they tell you what is and isn’t acceptable, ‘As i never saw my mother or father’. Ishmael ignored all super ego in his life and went to sea alone when everyone said that he should stay get a job all the usual things that men should have done back then.

 

On the contrary they are also different in some ways. For example Melville suggests  Ishmael hates the company of other people and just wants to be isolated ‘ It is a way I have of driving off the spleen’, whereas Pip is shown by Dickens hating  being alone and just wants to be with people yet he finds himself on his own without those people around him and wants to have someone there for him.

 

There is a big age difference between the two characters. Ishmael is shown by Melville as an old man who has seen lots of the world and has had loads of people tell him what to do (super ego)and has experienced it in lots of different ways ‘some years ago, never mind how long’, whereas Dickens portrays Pip as just a young boy ‘infant tongue’ who is happy to be alive he only has one view of the world and that is standing in his overgrown place not knowing where he is and why he is there.