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CharlesDickensGREATEXPECTATIONS

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Biography

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Charles John Huffam Dickens,

born February 7, 1812 in

Portsmouth, Hampshire, son

of John and ElizabethDickens.

He was sent to work in the

Warrens Blacking Factory at

the age of twelve after his

father was arrested for debt.

He worked 10 hours a day

. His horrific experienceduring this time, although only

a few months, forever changed

his views, and set his writing

style.

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He writes of the life of individuals, often children, who are

poor and mistreated by someone of authority or wealth.

However, these individuals go on to live a much happier

existence, while the individuals who hurt them typicallymeet a less appealing fate.

He is depicted as the greatest English novelist, and is

considered second only to Shakespeare among all English

writers.

House Museum

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By the time he wrote Great Expectations, Dickens was separated

from his wife and was involved in an affair with a young actress.

His editor convinced Dickens to change his novel's conclusion to

the sunnier one which now remains.. Shaw said of the book, "Itsbeginning is unhappy; its middle is unhappy; and the

conventional happy ending is an outrage on it."

Dickens died in 1870, and was laid under a tombstone that read:

"England's Most Popular Author."

It is said, that his very last words were, Be natural my children.

For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all of the rules of art.

Charles Dickens signature

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Dickens wrote fifteen novels, most of whichwere over a thousand pages, in addition tocountless novellas, stories, articles, sketches

and letters

Oliver Twist(1838), ATale of Two Cities(1859), David Copperfield(1849), Hard Times(1854), the ever-popular story of Ebeneezer

Scrooge, "A Christmas Carol" (1943), GreatExpectations(1860)

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Great Expectations(1861)

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Is it childish to dream about a future completely

different from what you expect to happen?

Written in first person

Story follows the life of an orphan named PhilipPirrip, nicknamed Pip

The beginning; First plot

On Christmas Eve, Pip encounters a frightening convictin the village churchyard.He scares Pip into stealinghim some food

This incident is crucial: it gives Pip, who must steal thegoods from his sister's house, his first taste oftrueguilt, and, secondly, Pip's kindness warms the convict'sheart. The convict, however, waits many years to trulyshow his gratitude.

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He lives with his sister Mrs. Joewho beats him around and withher husband Mr Joe ,a kindblacksmith

Second Plot

Pip gets invited unexpectedly tothe house of a rich old woman inthe village named Miss

Havisham. Miss Havisham ismean and creepy as she iswearing a yellowish weddingdress and has an adopted daughterEstella with whom heimmediately falls in love with

Having tasted the spoils of abetter life,another crucial change:Pip is miserable as a blacksmithand has decided now on wantinhto achieve greatness having greatexpectations

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Third plot

Pip is going to London to become a gentleman being given a lot of moneyfrom an unknown benefactor

Forth plot : Returning of the convict

Fifth plot : Revealing of Estella being the daughter of Mally and convictMagwitch

Mrs Joe dies, Miss Havisham dies and Bidy marries Mr Joe

Sixth plot

Pip is working with his friend Herbert abroad, comes home to visit Joes sonPip junior and sees Esteela again who is now a widow and is not cruelanymore, she is filled with regret similar to him and they begin a friendship

The story ending :

"I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first leftthe forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all thebroad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw noshadow of another parting from her

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Characters

Main characters:

Philip Pirrip, nicknamed Pip

Miss Havisham

Mr and Mrs. Joe Gargery

Esella

Herbert Pocket

The convict(Magwitch, orProvis )

Biddy

Others:

Mr Jagers

Orlick

Bentley Drummle

Molly

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Pip

"I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born inopposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality,

and against the arguments of my best friends." Chapter 4,

pg. 25

Estella:'I must be taken as I have been made. The success isnot mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make

me." Chapter 38, pg. 356

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Places and objectsThe Three Jolly Bargemen Mr. Wopsle's Great Aunt's schoolManor House (or Satis Twenty before nine

The Temple London

The Blue Boar

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VocabularyMarshes:

'A most beastly place: mudbank, mist, swamp,and work'

Wittles: I shell steal some wittles

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Disquiet

In vain should I attempt to describe the disquiet ofHerbert

Muzzled:

You two may count upon me always having a genteelmuzzle on, muzzled I ever will be

Patronage:

By proceeding to take me into custody with a right ofpatronage

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To disclose:

When that person discloses, yu and that person will setlle your

affairs

Bewildered :

Bewildered by the suprise and yet conscious

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About the book

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The title

The title Great Expectationsrefers to the 'GreatExpectations' Pip has of coming into hisbenefactor's property upon his disclosure to himand achieving his intended role as a gentleman

at that time. Great Expectationsis a novel whichdescribes growth and personal development, inthis case, of Pip.

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Style

Great Expectationsis written infirst person and uses languageand grammar that has fallen outof common use since itspublication.

Dickens loves detail, and heloves spinning elegant language,and sometimes those two lovesmeet to create new worlds within

his overarching story. Storieswithin stories are foundeverywhere in GreatExpectations.

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On Dickens Style

Despite the great length of his major novels, Dickensdeserves to be read slowly, with occasionalpauses to reread a choice passage, because heis one of the most inventive and vigorous

stylists in the whole range of English literature.Style, as we know, has many facets, andDickens powerful rhythms, his supple patternsof alliteration, the hammer-blows of theanaphoric insistence he often favors, are all

worthy of attention. But he is above all the greatmaster of figurative language in English afterShakespeare.

Robert Alter, John Hopkins U.

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Point of View

The first-person narrator of Dickens' GreatExpectationsis an adult Pip who tells the story inhis own voice and from his own memory. What isdistinctive about that voice is that it can so

intimately recall the many small details of a littleboy's fear and misery, as well as the voices anddialects of othersfrom the rough countryspeech of Magwitch and Orlick to the deaf AgedParent's loud repetitions or the mechanically

predictable things Jaggers says. Yet other detailsseem to be forgotten. Pip tells almost nothing ofhis beatings from...

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Problems

SOCIAL CLASS , CRIME , AMBITION, LOVE,INJUSTICE, WELTH, Expectation,Identity ,Hypocrites

Ambition and self-improvement take three forms in GreatExpectationsmoral, social, and educational; thesemotivate Pips best and his worst behavior throughout thenovel

Moral theme of Great Expectationsis quite simple:affection, loyalty, and conscience are more important thansocial advancement, wealth, and class.

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Favorite Quotes

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears,for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlyingour hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, moregentle." Chapter 19, pg. 185

"... it felt very sorrowful and strange that this first night of

my bright fortunes should be the loneliest I had everknown." Chapter 18, pg. 169

"If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight,you'll never get to do it through going crooked." Chapter 9,p. 81

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By:

Emili Dobutovi; Julijana Krajnovi

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