Great Expectations

INTRODUCTION

This novel was written by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (Portsmouth, England, on February 7, 1812 - Gads Hill Place, England, on June 9, 1870) was a famous novelist Englishman, one of more acquaintances of the universal literature, and the principal one of the Victorian age. He was a teacher of the narrative kind, on which it stamped certain doses of humor and irony, practising simultaneously a sharp social critique. In his work stand out the descriptions of people and places, both royal and imaginary. There used in occasions the pseudonym Boz.

His novels and short statements enjoyed great popularity in life of the writer, and still today they are edited and adapt for the cinema constant. Dickens wrote serials, the usual format in the fiction in his epoch, for the simple reason of which not the whole world was possessing the economic necessary resources to buy a book, and every new delivery of his histories was waited by great enthusiasm for his readers, national and international. Dickens was and he continues being venerated as a literary idol for writers of the whole world.

One of his novels more famous is “GREAT EXPECTATIONS” , of that it treats this work.

SUMMARY

A six-year-old boy named Pip lives on the English marshes with his sister (Mrs. Joe Gargery) and his sister's husband (Mr. Joe Gargery). His sister is about as bossy and mean as most older sisters are but his brother-in-law Joe is pretty much the best thing that's happened to Pip.

One Christmas Eve, Pip meets a scary, escaped convict in a churchyard. Pip steals food from Mrs. Joe so that the convict won't starve (and also so that the convict won't rip his guts out). Soon after, in apparently unrelated events, Pip gets asked to play at Miss Havisham's, the creepy lady who lives down the street. And we mean creepy: her mansion is covered in moss; she still wears the wedding dress she was wearing when she was jilted at the altar decades ago; and the whole place is crawling with bugs. It's like Beauty and the Beast, only without the singing tableware.

The only good thing about the mansion is Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter. Estella is cold and snobby, but man is she pretty. Pip keeps getting invited back to play with her, and he develops quite the little crush on her. This crush turns into a big crush, and that big crush turns into full-blown, all-consuming L-O-V-E, even though there's no way that orphan Pip can ever have a chance with Estella, the adopted child of the richest lady in town.

When Pip is old enough to be put to work he starts an apprenticeship at his brother-in-law's smithy, thanks to Miss Havisham's financial support, but he hates it: all he wants is to become a gentleman and marry Estella.

Then, he comes into fortune by means of a mysterious and undisclosed benefactor, says goodbye to his family, and heads to London to become a gentleman. And it's pretty sweet at first. Mr. Jaggers, Pip's caretaker, is one of the biggest and baddest lawyers in town. Pip also gets a new best friend named Herbert Pocket, the son of Miss Havisham's cousin.

Herbert shows Pip around town, and they have a busy city life: dinner parties in castles with moats, encounters with strange housekeepers, trips to the theater, etc. Two teeny problems: he spends way too much money, and whenever he goes home he's ashamed of Joe. Meanwhile, Estella, who's been off touring the world, comes back to London and is even more gorgeous than ever.

On his 21st birthday, Jaggers gives Pip a huge 500-pound annual allowance, which he uses to help Herbert get a job. Aw, good friend! This goes on for a couple of years—Pip is a man about town; Estella keeps rejecting him—until, on his 23rd birthday, a stranger shows up. The stranger is Pip's benefactor. The stranger is… the convict that Pip helped when he was only six years old!

Here are the deets: the con's name is Abel Magwitch. The courts exiled him to New South Wales under strict orders never, ever to return to England, so not only is Pip super bummed to find out that his benefactor isn't Miss Havisham after all, as he's

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