An original Cover of Great Expectations by Charles Dickins
Great expectations by Charles Dickens was a favourite always growing up, In my parents study we are lucky enough to have classic books such as Great Expectations unless of course you have to read it in GCSE english. The book is solely based on the growth and personal development that we see from the character Pip and his climb through class; a intense at times and passionate 544 pages. Love is the most important thing to Pip. His love for Estelle the girl who is Miss Havisham's adopted daughter and Pips true love though she is incredibly damaged within understanding relationships and who she is as a women without feeling. Not just Miss Havisham's muse.
Pip's journey into becoming a gentle man starts when he meets an escaped prisoner at a graveyard Pip is at visiting the graves of his family (He has a bad start to life) The prisoner convinces him to bring him some food from his house where he lives with his horrible older sister and her gentle and caring husband Joe. Pip does and the prisoner pays him back in ways he would of never imagined by becoming his benefactor completely changing his life a while after their first meeting.
Pip under near the end thinks Miss Havisham is his benefactor but he realises a while later she had just kept Estelle from him turning her heart cold like Miss Havisham's own. Pip is told about his recent fortune by Mr. Jaggers a man who throughout looks after Pips money and shows him the ins and outs of being a gentleman in London. Not only is his character extremely interesting from his personality but in the fact the he is linked to many of the characters and knows a lot due to his housekeeper being Estelle's real mothers.
Estelle marries the wrong man its pretty frustrating to read due to the fact it takes eleven years for Pip and Estelle to finally be together "no shadow of another parting from her" she in time has realised her own feelings and heart. Its a good thing her husband has passed anyway because he was horrible to Pip when he first arrived in London.
The book is full of twists and exciting plots. Estelle was adopted by Miss Havisham but her actual blood parents are no other then the Prisoner Pip helped all those years ago Abel Magwitch & Molly who is Mr Jaggers housekeeper.
Miss Havisham has been destroyed. The forever jilted bride who has clearly had a mental breakdown after being left at the alter by her to be husband; yet he turned out to be a complete con-artist only after her money with her half brother Arthur. We must ask ourselves though... would Miss Havisham of ever been in the right mind even if she was blinded by her love for his horrible man? No probably not thats why being jilted had such an effect on her. Miss Havisham only had revenge left in her. What was Mr. Jagger thinking giving Estelle to her? I don't know.
Of course though with Pip and Estelle finding a happy ending Miss Havisham does not. In a completely memorable way by Charles Dickins Miss Havisham dies after arguing with Pip because her wedding dress sets on fire as it catches on from a candle. She didn't think and was a completely reckless ruined women.
This book is a classic its an easy read each time I've read this book I notice something different, Pip is easy to imagine in my mind, he's decent and though clearly tempted by all his money he mainly remains a decent man growing up for most of the story.
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