Great Expectations Review

Great expectations review - 

Great Expectations is a gothic horror novel written by Charles Dickens. This novel is gripping, makes you feel very tense and has your adrenaline rushing however has a fairytale element to it. The novel includes love, living in poverty and rejection. The plot of events has taken place in the past. many mysteries and puzzles about identity and concern with the source of fate, large sums of money and includes a combination of gothic and sublime sensation elements, terrifying you, however enjoying it.

The time period is in 1812 in the location of south east England, thirty miles from the city of London.
This novel shows the differences between the classes within the victorian era. The main characters being Pip, Miss Havisham and Estella. Pip is a poor young orphan who has big dreams to do well for himself to become rich and become a gentlemen. He lives with his sister and husband however one day comes across magwitch (escapee from the local prison) where he feeds and gives tools to until he is recaptured. Pip is one day taken to play at wealthy Miss Havisham's house where he meets Estella a beautiful orphan adopted by Miss Havisham who he falls in love with and desperately wants to become a man worthy to marry her. Pip believes it is Miss Havisham funding with him with the money to form the perfect ideal husband for estella however it reveals Magwitch was the one funding him with the money. Later on Miss Havisham dies in a fire and Estella marries a wealthy country man despite no love in the relationship and being treated cruelty. Pip and Magwitch leave the country to prevent Magwitch being caught and taken into prison and earn there money by hard work. Pip eventually returns to England where he finds Estella in a graveyard widowed. It is untold of what happened to Pip and Estella at the end however all is to believe it worked out in the end.

Estella and Pip - 

 Magwitch and Pip-

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