# Endnotes explained — The Pickwick Papers

> Chapter companion for The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

## What happens

The endnotes provide references and annotations for the preceding chapters, including a note on Mr. Jingle's prophetic imagination regarding the 1830 Revolution and a remark on the prison's abolition.

## Themes in this chapter

### Prison and Suffering

The endnotes remark on the prison's existence in the past, now abolished, reflecting on the theme of imprisonment.

## Character check-ins

### Samuel Pickwick

Referenced as Member Pickwick Club and General Chairman.

### Alfred Jingle

Noted for his prophetic imagination regarding the 1830 Revolution.

## Key lines

> A remarkable instance of the prophetic force of Mr. Jingle’s imagination; this dialogue occurring in the year 1827, and the Revolution in 1830.

Mr. Jingle's dialogue in 1827 astonishingly foreshadowed the 1830 Revolution.

_Highlights Jingle's seemingly prescient remarks._

> Better. But this is past, in a better age, and the prison exists no longer.

Fortunately, that time is over; we now live in a better era, and the prison has been abolished.

_Reflects on the positive change regarding the prison's closure._

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