Review of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

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Review of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

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Charles Dickens’ book ‘Great Expectations’ is a very well known novelabout a boy called Pip, who goes on a journey to discover his ‘GreatExpectations’. On this journey to become a gentleman he finds out manythings about himself, and by the end of the novel realises exactlywhat his real identity is.

The storyline is very heavily based on Dickens’ beliefs at time he waswriting and this clearly is reflected when you read the novel. Dickenswas very worried about society in Britain in the 1800’s and he couldnot understand why every aspect of status and identity revolved aroundmoney. This connects to the book as Pip, after his visit to SatisHouse, believes that he has been brought up badly and that money isthe only resource to give you any sort of ‘real’ identity. ‘I washumiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry and sorry.’ Pip feelsinadequate in the company of Miss Havisham, the owner of Satis House,and Estella, Miss Havisham’s foster daughter and perhaps this isDickens felt when his father was sent to prison for being in debt andDickens was sent to the blacking factory so he could provide money forthe rest of his family. However Dickens began to feel that people weretoo greedy, and people had forgotten that having good friends and asafe place to live is much more important. Dickens and his family werelooked down because of this, as they had gone from being an upper-class family to being a low working-class family.

We first hear of Satis House in chapter eight when Pip is sent to meetMiss Havisham, a rich old lady who owns the house. ‘Satis’ translatesfrom Greek to mean ‘enough’, which is quite ironic in that Estella,Miss Havisham’s daughter explains ‘it meant when it was given, whoeverhad this house could not want anything else’, However Miss Havishamwas jilted on her wedding day and slowly decayed after stopping all ofher clocks, and with that, her life.

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