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Great Expectations Contents

  • Introduction
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  • Author(s)
    • Dickens, Charles
      • Charles Dickens - Early Life
      • Dickens the successful writer and public figure
  • The context of Great Expectations
    • Social / political context Show more
      • Dickens and Victorian Britain
      • Dickens: law and politics
        • More on utilitarian 'happiness'
      • Educational context
        • Education in Victorian Britain
        • Dickens' education
        • Pip's education in Great Expectations
    • Religious / philosophical context Show more
      • The influence of Christianity
      • Church and chapel
      • Evangelicalism
      • Dickens' religious views
        • More on Dickens' religious views in his fiction
      • Dickens and childhood
        • Childhood in the seventeenth and eighteenth century
        • The Romantics and childhood
        • Dickens and the importance of childhood
    • Literary context Show more
      • The eighteenth century novel
      • The rising status of the novel
      • The status of the novelist
      • Dickens and the novel
      • Gothic and sensation in Great Expectations
  • Great Expectations Synopses
    • Note on chapter numbering
    • Chapters 1-9 Show more
      • Chapter 1 (Volume 1, Chapter 1) (Instalment 1):
      • Chapter 2 (Volume 1, Chapter 2) (Instalment 1):
        • More on parents and children
      • Chapter 3 (Volume 1, Chapter 3) (Instalment 2):
      • Chapter 4 (Volume 1, Chapter 4) (Instalment 2):
      • Chapter 5 (Volume 1, Chapter 5) (Instalment 3):
      • Chapter 6 (Volume 1, Chapter 6) (Instalment 4):
      • Chapter 7 (Volume 1, Chapter 7) (Instalment 4):
      • Chapter 8 (Volume 1, Chapter 8) (Instalment 5):
      • Chapter 9 (Volume 1, Chapter 9) (Instalment 6):
    • Chapters 10-19 Show more
      • Chapter 10 (Volume 1, Chapter 10) (Instalment 6):
      • Chapter 11 (Volume 1, Chapter 11) (Instalment 7):
      • Chapter 12 (Volume 1, Chapter 12) (Instalment 8):
      • Chapter 13 (Volume 1, Chapter 13) (Instalment 8):
      • Chapter 14 (Volume 1, Chapter 14) (Instalment 9):
      • Chapter 15 (Volume 1, Chapter 15) (Instalment 9):
      • Chapter 16 (Volume 1, Chapter 16) (Instalment 10):
      • Chapter 17 (Volume 1, Chapter 17) (Instalment 10):
      • Chapter 18 (Volume 1, Chapter 18) (Instalment 11):
      • Chapter 19 (Volume 1, Chapter 19) (Instalment 12):
    • Chapters 20-29 Show more
      • Chapter 20 (Volume 2, Chapter 1) (Instalment 13):
      • Chapter 21 (Volume 2, Chapter 2) (Instalment 13):
      • Chapter 22 (Volume 2, Chapter 3) (Instalment 14):
      • Chapter 23 (Volume 2, Chapter 4) (Instalment 15):
      • Chapter 24 (Volume 2, Chapter 5) (Instalment 15):
      • Chapter 25 (Volume 2, Chapter 6) (Instalment 16):
      • Chapter 26 (Volume 2, Chapter 7) (Instalment 16):
      • Chapter 27 (Volume 2, Chapter 8) (Instalment 17):
      • Chapter 28 (Volume 2, Chapter 9) (Instalment 17):
      • Chapter 29 (Volume 2, Chapter 10) (Instalment 18):
    • Chapters 30-39 Show more
      • Chapter 30 (Volume 2, Chapter 11) (Instalment 19):
      • Chapter 31 (Volume 2, Chapter 12) (Instalment 19):
      • Chapter 32 (Volume 2, Chapter 13) (Instalment 20):
      • Chapter 33 (Volume 2, Chapter 14) (Instalment 20):
      • Chapter 34 (Volume 2, Chapter 15) (Instalment 21):
      • Chapter 35 (Volume 2, Chapter 16) (Instalment 21):
      • Chapter 36 (Volume 2, Chapter 17) (Instalment 22):
      • Chapter 37 (Volume 2, Chapter 18) (Instalment 22):
      • Chapter 38 (Volume 2, Chapter 19) (Instalment 23):
      • Chapter 39 (Volume 2, Chapter 20) (Instalment 24):
    • Chapters 40-49 Show more
      • Chapter 40 (Volume 3, Chapter 1) (Instalment 25):
      • Chapter 41 (Volume 3, Chapter 2) (Instalment 26):
      • Chapter 42 (Volume 3, Chapter 3) (Instalment 26):
      • Chapter 43 (Volume 3, Chapter 4) (Instalment 27):
      • Chapter 44 (Volume 3, Chapter 5) (Instalment 27):
      • Chapter 45 (Volume 3, Chapter 6) (Instalment 28):
      • Chapter 46 (Volume 3, Chapter 7) (Instalment 28):
      • Chapter 47 (Volume 3, Chapter 8) (Instalment 29):
      • Chapter 48 (Volume 3, Chapter 9) (Instalment 29):
      • Chapter 49 (Volume 3, Chapter 10) (Instalment 30):
    • Chapters 50-59 Show more
      • Chapter 50 (Volume 3, Chapter 11) (Instalment 30):
      • Chapter 51 (Volume 3, Chapter 12) (Instalment 31):
      • Chapter 52 (Volume 3, Chapter 13) (Instalment 31):
      • Chapter 53 (Volume 3, Chapter 14) (Instalment 32):
        • More on The Pilgrim's Progress
      • Chapter 54 (Volume 3, Chapter 15) (Instalment 33):
      • Chapter 55 (Volume 3, Chapter 16) (Instalment 34):
      • Chapter 56 (Volume 3, Chapter 17) (Instalment 34):
      • Chapter 57 (Volume 3, Chapter 18) (Instalment 35):
      • Chapter 58 (Volume 3, Chapter 19) (Instalment 36):
      • Chapter 59 (Volume 3, Chapter 20) (Instalment 36):
    • The ending of Great Expectations
  • Narrative
    • Pip as narrator Show more
      • More on David Copperfield
    • Advantages of a first-person narrator
    • Development of the narrative
    • A learning novel
    • Narrative techniques
  • Characterisation
    • Role and significance
    • Creation of character
  • Themes and significant ideas
    • Parents and children
    • Education and its purposes
    • Crime and punishment
    • Class and social attitudes
    • Wealth and materialism
    • Love, forgiveness and redemption
  • Imagery and symbolism
    • Lamps, candles, torches and stars
    • Hands
    • Chains, files and prisons
    • Food and meals
  • Structure
    • Structure and narrative
    • Moral structure: Great Expectations as pilgrimage
    • Thematic structures
    • Structure and settings
  • Critical analysis
    • Great Expectations: the critical tradition
    • The last thirty years
    • Great Expectations and recent critical approaches
    • The two endings of Great Expectations
    • Analysing a passage
  • Approaching exams and essays
    • Engaging with the text
    • How to plan an essay
    • Sample questions
    • What makes a good English exam answer?
  • Resources and further reading
    • Booklist
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    • Great Expectations on film and television
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Book of Common Prayer
Classical Numismatic Group
Caim i Abel by Josep Vergara
The Temptation of Christ
Telemachus and Mentor
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Hamlet and the Ghost of his Father
Attributed to Adolf Gnauth
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Miss Havisham begs for forgiveness
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Cairo
Jeremy Bentham by Henry William Pickersgill
Eton College
King James Bible
William Wilberforce by Karl Anton Kickel
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emma by Jane Austen
Horace Walpole
Pilgrim's Progress
Photo by Alfred Fyfe available through Creative Commons