A league is a distance measurement of three nautical miles. The nautical mile is the standard distance measure at sea. A mile is 5,280 feet but a nautical mile is 6,076 feet (1,852m). The difference is a result of the curvature of the earth.
Philip Pirrip, or Pip, the main character of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations, is a multi-dimensional character. Pip is: an orphan - his parents died, his sister â¦and her husband (Joe) raise him a dreamer, ambitious - he always has a dream or goal in mind (an expectation...
In addition, one of the novelâs most appealing characters, Wemmick, is a law clerk, and the law, justice, and the courts are all important components of the story. Great Expectations is set in early Victorian England, a time when great social changes were sweeping the nation. The Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries had transformed the social landscape, enabling capitalists and manufacturers to amass huge fortunes.