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Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations (1861). He is amongst the most popular characters in English literature. Pip narrates his story many years after the events of the novel take place. The novel follows Pip's process from childhood innocence to adulthood. The financial and ...
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations.She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life.
Wopsle's great-aunt is Pip's first "teacher" in Great Expectations. "Mr Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village, that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the ...
John Forrest (14 May 1931–28 March 2012) was an American-born British actor, artist and stage magician probably best remembered today for playing the young Herbert Pocket in the film Great Expectations (1946), directed by David Lean. [1] [2]
John Wemmick is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations.He is Mr Jaggers's clerk and the protagonist Pip's friend. [1] Some scholars consider him to be the "most modern man in the book".
Estella Havisham (married name Estella Drummle) is a significant character in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations. [1]Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady.
The first is the menace that forever surrounds the lives of the respectable from the very existence of a criminal friend or relative at large – this is the fate of Mrs Rudge, the dark secret of David Copperfield's aunt, Betsy Trotwood, the strange tension of Mrs Clennam's tomb-like home in Little Dorrit, the central situation of Great ...