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  • Essay / Summary and Analysis of Dickens' Great Expectations

    Great Expectations is a full-length novel written by Charles Dickens and shows the moral development of a child. Pip, the main character of the story, is a young orphan who lives with his sister and her husband, Joe. He was raised and spent his childhood in the region with Joe, his acquaintance. One special day, Uncle Pumblechook takes Pip to play at Miss Havisham's house. Miss Havisham is very eccentric as she keeps all the clocks in her house at the same time and always wears her old wedding dress. This is the beginning of Pip's life adventure. At home, Pip meets Estella, who is very mean to him, but he instantly falls in love with her. Pip hopes to be able to marry Estella until Miss Havisham tells him to fill out papers to become a simple domestic worker. All of a sudden, Pip's lawyer comes to him and tells him that an anonymous person has left Pip a fortune and needs him gone. to London to learn how to be a well-mannered adult. Pip originally thinks the mastermind is Miss Havisham until he later discovers it is the convict (Magwitch) he had helped....