"The mist was heavier yet...and a flourish of his tail" (15).
These lines from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens clearly explain how the human mind has the ability to play tricks and can literally make a person crazy when he or she knows that what they have done is wrong. The conscience is a very strong part of a person and Charles Dickens reveals his knowledge of how it works from writing about Pip's experience of how he believes everything to be staring at him. However, Dickens has Pip trying to justify his actions to relieve his conscience, which helps him to commit the deceitful acts without a second thought. This entire scenario clearly portrays how the human mind can talk itself out of thinking something is wrong, so that man is able to go through with the act and not feel guilty about it later.
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look carefully for typos here --- and look and see if you can establish the relationship between what Dickens is saying about comforting one's self and that idea of conscience -- this entry has some interesting ideas but right now it isn't all clicking together
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