Great Expectations Summary, Themes, Character Chart

In this video, we are discussing the iconic novel, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. At first, we are going to take a look at the important characters of the novel. Then we will discuss the Great Expectations summary and follow it by Great Expectations themes analysis.

Great Expectations Summary and analysis will help you understand the novel in a simple way. It was published in 1861 by Chapman and Hall in 3 Volumes.

Charles Dickens Great Expectations is a bildungsroman novel that focuses on the moral, educational and psychological growth of Pip.

Pip Estella relationship forms a driving force in Pip's aspirations of being a gentleman. In Great Expectations, Pip meets Estella in the Satis House and wants to be worthy of her. He feels ashamed of his low social situation. Miss Havisham in Great Expectations plays the catalyst in igniting Pip's feelings for Estella because she wants to take revenge against men by making Estella break their hearts.

In Great Expectations, Pip and Estella share a very disharmonious relationship with the former pursuing the girl relentlessly and the latter ignoring and hurting Pip endlessly.

In Great Expectations, there are 2 Pip and Estella ending. In the earlier ending, Estella remarries and Pip stays single. In the revised ending, it is hinted that Pip and Estella might get married.

After discussing the Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Summary in detail, we discuss the 2 important Great Expectations themes - social class & Ambition and Self Improvement.

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