Name- JEWEL CORREIA
Roll No- 06
SY B.Ed 2019-21
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS –
CHARLES DICKENS
Great Expectations, a
unique by the author Charles Dickens, was first published
serially in All the Year Round in 1860–61 and issued in book form in 1861.
The classic novel was one amongst Dickens' greatest critical and
popular successes.
Great Expectations works on variety of levels: as a critique of
Victorian society and as a research of memory and writing.
However, it's perhaps more importantly a pursuit for true
identity. During the course of the novel, Pip realizes that his “great
expectations”—social standing and wealth—are smaller than loyalty and
compassion. Great Expectations was also noted for its blend of humor, mystery,
and tragedy.
The reader is made to travel with Pip the protagonist of the novel, in his
travails and quest after becoming a gentleman. Repelled by the proud
and cold hearted Estella, on one hand, and engulfed within the mortal
fear of Magwitch who accosts him within the latter half of
the story, Pip is left in an conundrum, from which he quickly
relinquishes himself when he gets to know that
Magwitch over being a benefactor, seems to be Estella's
father, the ladylove of Pip who had once spurned him.
Later Dickens ends the novel with a flourishing finish and leaves his readers
guessing on whether Pip would join Estella in matrimony and
thereafter lead a cheerful life. The novel is indeed a masterpiece of
its times and of the Victorian era.
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