



Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest
of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any
previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for
some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters.
Unlike other authors, many of his writings were originally published serially, in monthly
or yearly installments which Dickens himself helped popularize at that time. After that
period, some of his writing published as novels.
Dickens' work has been highly acquired famous by its realism, comedy, mastery of prose,
unique personalities and concern for social reform by writers such as Leo Tolstoy, George
Gissing and G.K. Chesterton.
Although others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, have criticized it for
sentimentality and implausibility.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

The Adventures of Oliver Twist

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Old Curiosity Shop

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Monthly
serial, January 1843 to July 1844)
About the book
 It was first published in serial (As the most of
the others) form in the publication All the Year
Round from 1 December 1860 to August
1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen
many times (over 250 times).
In my words, Great Expectations is a process that shapes Pip’s life
in the way of love, revenge, and desire. It is all about Pip’s life and
for Pip.
Point of View

It is written in the first person from the point of view
of the orphan Pip (Main Character). It draws on his
experiences of life and people. ( Like much of his
work)
Settings

Mainly in Pip’s village environment :




His home
Joe’s forge (Blacksmith)
Miss Havisham’s mansion (Satis House)
In London :



Jagger’s house
Wemmick’s house
Herbert’s and Pip’s house( They live together)
THEMES
 The main themes are in the triangle of love, revenge,
and desires.
 The main characters (Pip, Magwitch, Miss
Havisham) take a big role at this themes to be
worked intellwgently
Characters
 Pip = Main character of story. The story takes place on
him.
 Mrs. Joe = Pip’s angry sister.
 Joe = Pip’s brother-in-law.
 Abel Magwitch = The convict.( There are two secrets
about him.
 Miss Havisham = Pip’s “benefactor”. He works for her
to be apprenticed.
 Estella = Pip’s lover. Also, Miss Havisham’s beautiful
young ward. ( Two secrets)
 Jaggers = The powerful, foreboding lawyer hired by …
 Herbert Pocket = Pip’s best friend that Pip stays with
for five years. Matthew Pocket’s son.
 Wemmick = Jaggers’s clerk and Pip’s friend.
 Biddy = Pip’s first best friend adn Mrs. Joe’s care
worker.
 Molly = Jaggers’s housekeeper. (one secret)
 Compeyson = A criminal and the former partner of
Magwitch. (one secret)
 Bentley Drummle = Estella’s husband. However, he
is the most repulsive of Pip’s acquaintances.
 Uncle Pumblechook = Pip’s uncle in law
Summary
 Pip saws a convict on marshes who wants
food and a file from him. He was Abel
Magwitch who has many secrets.
 Pip was apprenticed at Miss Havisham
mansion.
 In there, Estella pulls his leg and he vows to
become gentleman.
 However, he tinks that Miss Havisham burst
Pip’s bubble.
 He was ashamed of himself and things which
is about him.
 At that time, his sister was threatened by
someone. Her temper was gone with this
ivent and Biddy came to look for her.
 By the time, in the pub, Joe and Pip
recognized a stranger with “smell of soap”.
That was Jaggers who announces that there
is a benefactor to help him.
 He goes to London and Wemmick. He brings
him to Herbert Pocket (his best Friend). He
finds from Herbert that Miss Havisham wants
to take revenge from all men.
 He invented in to dinner at Wemmick. At
there, he recognized that Wemmick is very
unusual person.
 The next day, Jaggers invited Pip to dinner
and he sees there Jaggers servant (tigress).
 Back to Satis House, he recognizes the
beauty of Estella ones again. Also, there was
a similarity on her face.
 In there, Pip roams every looks at him.
 A letter, announces that the death of Mrs. Joe
Gragery, brings Pip home.
 Back to London, he thinks his love and fear to
Estella and finds out that Drummle courts to
her.
 One night, a sixtish warn men comes to his
home at his birthday. Firtsly, Pip despises
him. However, he recognizes that he was the
man marshes and he is his benefactor.
 He was escaping from law. Pip decided to hide
him.
 (Telling the story) Magwitch was the man of
Compeyson who gets down his bad jobs to him.
Herbert also says that Compeyson was the
person who left Miss Havisham on their wedding
day.
 Again back to Satis House, he sees Estella in the
same room and says that he loves her. However,
she was married.
 In London, he learns that he is under danger
from Wemmick.
 By the time, he understoods that “tigress” is
Estella’s mother.
 He goes Miss Havisham’s house to the same
room and speaks with her. He goes outside
and comes inside. He finds her on fire.
 Pip learns Magwitch is Jaggers’ servant’s
dusband.
 They decided to escape from Compeyson, but
they get busted him on boat. Magwitch and
he wrestles under water and Compeyson dies.
Polices arrests Magwitch.
 Pip falls into fever and Joe take care of him.
 Pip goes for forgivness to Joe’s family,
Herbert’s family.
 Pip meets Estella again and story ends.
UNFAVORABLE PARTS
 The boring part in this book is being like a Turkish movie. Not to
insult Turkish movies, but the ending is predictable from before.
 Also, some irrelevant parts makes the book meaningless. I couldn’t
understood the burning of Miss Havisham.
REFERENCES
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/greatex/charact
ers.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=tr&tab=wi
Great Expectations graded reader book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bq8BsIZejE