Weather

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." (e-text)

Throughout Great Expectations Dickens refrences Shakespeare multiple times. However, one connection between the different pieces of literature is maybe a little more hidden to readers - weather. In Great Expectations, the weather is hardly ever sunny. Dickens uses weather to set the tone for his novel by connecting bad and stormy weather with intense events. This can easily be connected to Shakespeare's Macbeth.For example whenever the witches appear in the play booming thunder and frightening lightning always accompanies them.

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