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GREAT EXPECTATION BY CHARLES DICKENS

Made by student 10e-22 gr. Saydullayeva Ozoda

23.2.2023
 PLAN
1. Charles Dickens
1.1. His Early Life
1.2. His Literary Success
1.3. His Death

2. Great Expectations
3.References
 CHARLES DICKENS

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social

critic. During his lifetime, his works enjoyed
unprecedented popularity. He is now considered a
literary genius because he created some of the
world's best-known fictional characters and
regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian
era. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting
popularity.
 His Early Life

Dickens was born on February 7, 1812  in Portsmouth, on

the southern coast of England. His father, John Dickens,
was a naval clerk who dreamed of becoming rich and his
mother, Elizabeth Barrow, aspired to be a teacher and
school director. But the family’s financial situation had
grown worse because John Dickens used to spend money
dangerously beyond the family’s means. Consequently,
John was sent to prison for debt in 1824, when Charles
was just 12 years old.
After his father's imprisonment, Charles Dickens left
school to work in a factory. Despite his lack of formal
education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote
15 novels, 5 novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-
fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was
an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously
for children's rights, education, and etc.
 His Literary Success

Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication

of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an
international literary celebrity, famous for his humor, satire,
and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most
published in monthly or weekly installments, pioneered the
serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the
dominant Victorian mode for novel publication.
Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His
1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues
to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver
Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and,
like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London.
His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is
his best-known work of historical fiction.
Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers—
from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton—for
its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterizations, and
social criticism. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James,
and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth,
loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism.
 His Death

Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870

of a stroke. He was buried in Poet’s
Corner at Westminster Abbey.
 GREAT EXPECTATION

As a young child, the orphan Pip lives with his sister and brother-in-
law, the village blacksmith. On Christmas Eve, Pip is walking
through the marshes when he meets an escaped convict who
threatens him into bringing back food and a file to break the leg-
irons. On Christmas Day, the convict is captured and returned to
the prison ships known as The Hulks. He never reveals Pip’s
assistance when he is caught and asked how he escaped his irons.
Much later, young Pip is sent to entertain Miss Havisham, a wealthy
old lady who lives in a mansion known as Satis House. Miss
Havisham is a bitter woman who was jilted on her wedding day long
ago. She still wears her wedding gown, and the now-rotten wedding
cake sits atop her dining room table. Her adopted daughter, Estella,
is beautiful, and Pip instantly falls in love with her. But Estella is
cold and distant. Over time, she softens somewhat toward Pip, but
her affection is erratic. She tells him she can never love anyone.
Pip is dismissed from Miss Havisham’s service and becomes an
apprentice to Joe. But Estella has instilled in him a shame in his
commonness. He longs to be a gentleman, not a blacksmith. His
discontent grows. One day he learns that an anonymous benefactor
has left him an enormous sum of money. He is to move to London,
where he will be trained to act as a gentleman. A lawyer, Jaggers,
will oversee his inheritance. Pip is certain his benefactor is Miss
Havisham, and believes he is being trained as Estella’s future
husband. Pip's happiness is unfathomable as he moves to London,
away from the only family and friends he has ever known. He is
educated by Mr. Mathew Pocket and strikes a great friendship with
his son, Herbert.
His wealth and position changes him, and soon Pip leads a
dissipated life full of idleness. He is ashamed of Joe and Biddy, and
wants little to do with them. He thinks association with them will
lower him in Estella’s eyes. Estella continues to be a powerful factor
in his life. She has been trained by Miss Havisham to break men’s
hearts, and is constantly put in Pip’s life to toy with him. Even
though she warns him she cannot love him, Pip persists in loving
her.
On his twenty-fourth birthday, Pip learns that his benefactor is not
Miss Havisham, but the convict from long ago. He realizes he is not
meant for Estella, and also that Miss Havisham deliberately let him
assume incorrectly. As well, he realizes with shame that he has
mistreated his good friend Joe, who was always faithful to him.
Though Pip is ashamed of the convict, Magwitch, he is grateful and
loyal, so he commits himself to protecting Magwitch from the police,
who are looking for him. His friend, Herbert Pocket, helps him.
Pip's moral education begins. He decides he can no longer accept the
convict’s money. He becomes compassionate towards Magwitch,
realizing the depth of the convict’s love for him. He tries to help
Magwitch escape, but in the chaos, Magwitch is injured and caught.
Magwitch dies, but not before Pip discovers that adopted Estella is
Magwitch’s daughter and tells Magwitch how lovely she is. Estella
marries Pip’s enemy, Drummle. Miss Havisham dies, but not before
repenting of the bitterness that has ruined her life. She leaves a good
deal of money to Herbert Pocket, at Pip’s request, in the hope that it
will earn her forgiveness. Pip goes to Joe and Biddy, who have
married one another since the death of Pip’s sister. He atones for his
sins against them then sets off on his own, determined to make
things right in his life. The novel ends when he meets Estella after
many years. She has left Drummle, who has since died. She is
remarried. She and Pip part as friends and Pip realizes she will
always be a part of his life, as surely as all the other memories of his
once-great expectations.
 REFERENCES

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1 https://www.myenglishpages.com/english/readi
ng-charles-dickens-biography.php
2.https://www.britannica.com/biography/
Charles-Dickens-British-novelist
3.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Charles_Dickens
4. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Great-
Expectations-novel-by-Dickens
5.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Great_Expectations
6. https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/g/great-
expectations/great-expectations-at-a-glance