TITLE: Great Expectations
AUTOR: Charles Dickens
LANGUAGE: English
GENRE(s): Bildungsroman, Novel
PUBLISHER: Hall
RELEASED: 1860 – 1861 (in serial form) & 1861 (in 3 volumes)

REFERENCES

Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip told by the protagonist in semi-autobiographical style as a remembrance of his life from the early days of his childhood until years after the main conflicts of the story have been resolved in adulthood. The story is also semi-autobiographical to the author Dickens, as are some other of his stories, drawing on his experiences of life and people


MY REVIEW

I read this book about twelve years ago and I would say it’s an interesting book. Some might tell you it's just a book about a guy trying to woo the girl he is in love with since he is a child but I think it is a book about wanting too much, staying attached to false expectation of growth -a growth in the sense of social status, money and power and not as a matter of inner, psychological or spiritual growth. Pip in his quest for social status hurts and ends up loosing all that really matters. Another thing that is really interesting is the fact that Charles Dickens wrote another ending for this book before he decided to change it.

This is the one that end up being in the book , pretty clichéd and corny I might say

“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 left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.“

The original one I perceive it more realistic. And i think it shows a change in the main character (Pip) now, he's been able to grow and has become wiser.

"It was two years more, before I saw herself. I had heard of her as leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband who had used her with great cruelty, and who had become quite renowned as a compound of pride, brutality and meanness. I had heard of the death of her husband (from an accident consequent of ill-treating a horse), and of her being again the Shropshire doctor, who, against her interest had once very manfully interposed, on an occasion when he was in professional attendance on Mr. Drummle, and had witnessed some outrageous treatment of her. I had heard that the Shropshire doctor was not rich, and they lived on her own personal fortune. I was in England again- in London, and walking along Piccadilly with little Pip- when a servant came running after me to ask would I step back to a lady in a carriage who wished to speak to me. It was a little pony carriage, which the lady was driving; and the lady and I looked sadly enough on one another. "I am greatly changed, I know; but I thought you would like to shake hands with Estella too, Pip. Lift up that pretty child and let me kiss it!" (She supposed the child, I think, to be my child). I was very glad afterwards to have such an interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be."


Don't you think, please, I ruined all the fun by telling you the end of the story all the contrary I think you will enjoy it even more .

have fun

love

Gabriel Taylor