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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens
It has been traditionally accepted that Charles Dickens, one of the most important writers in the history of English Literature, is a realistic writer. As a matter of fact, he could be said to be the most representative figure of the so- called Realistic Period. And yet, as we are going to analyse, he was far from being a prototypicalrealistic writer, or at least he was more than a realistic writer.
In many of his major works, he depicts the society of his times in a very ironical way, and maybe this is the reason why he has been included into the group of writers who dedicate their literary productions to a social or political denouncement. However, Charles Dickens is more than that since in his works he presents not only a realisticperspective about life, but also a view about the world influenced by Romanticism and with the first manifestations of the yet to come Naturalistic movement.

Summary of the book

Pirrip Phillip "Pip" is an orphan and lower class who lives with his sister and her husband were in an English village. One day he meets an inmate who has escaped, who asks for food and a file.Pip obeys and forget aboutit, unaware that this condition your life forever.

After a few months, a wealthy old woman, Mrs. Havisham invited to play at his house, a fact that will change your life forever. For there knows the world that lies beyond the limits of his people, and also meets a girl, Estelle, more or less of age, educated by the old, which falls around her. But she is proud and conceited, and rejected bytheir poverty and ignorance. This situation depresses Pip and makes him seek help from a friend, Biddy, who literacy. After regular visits to the mysterious house (everything is dirty and abandoned), his brother Joseph (with keeping a close friendship) is also invited. On this visit, financially reward Havisham Pip services and dismisses them.

Here begins a sad stage in the life of Pip, as his sisterhas become invalid and began his apprenticeship as a blacksmith (subsidized by money from the elderly), which reinforces its position further.

The solution appears when a man in the vicinity of the old woman reported that an anonymous source has donated a substantial capital. It gives money to dress properly and says he is going to live in London with a rich family. That is, that gives what hecalls "high hopes".

The idea of ​​reaching another class will divide into two: first save the longing to be a gentleman to win Estella, and escape from his job as a blacksmith who was destined, and on the other hand, the sadness of separation of her beloved brother and friend Biddy.But the teenager and Pip faces his fears and settled in London.There he discovers a new world of possibilities, andlives comfortably next to the eldest son of the family, of which 11 is a close friend.

A circumstance gives back to the past: his beloved Stella will go live in London but simultaneously realize that she is strongly influenced by the old woman, who has decided that it breaks the hearts of all the guys who can to take revenge and an old heartbreak you. Even more, believes he is destined for her,believing that money also comes from the old.

By then Pip finally learns that her sister has died, creating an environment even more melancholy.

The story takes an unexpected turn when it appears the benefactor of Pip: the inmate who once asked him a favor. Being so grateful, as he began to earn money in America, I was sending to them to do the gentleman Pip that he never could be.

Provis, that'show this character calls himself, tells him that he has returned to see him, but hates him because Pip is miserable with his new life, it is too complicated, and misses home.

Pip and Herbert, his friend, they realize that, being illegally Provis in England, they have to hide it and take it abroad. Before leaving, declaring Estela, and she tells him she is engaged to another man. When you are...