SparkNotes: Great Expectations: Character List Great Expectations Plot Overview Analysis of Major Characters Pip - The protagonist and narrator of Great Expectations, Pip begins the story as a young orphan boy being raised by his sister and brother-in-law in the marsh country of Kent, in the southeast of England. Pip is passionate, romantic, and somewhat unrealistic at heart, and he tends to expect more for himself than is reasonable. Pip also has a powerful conscience, and he deeply wants to improve himself, both morally and socially. Read an in-depth analysis of Pip. Estella - Miss Havisham’s beautiful young ward, Estella is Pip’s unattainable dream throughout the novel. He loves her passionately, but, though she sometimes seems to consider him a friend, she is usually cold, cruel, and uninterested in him. As they grow up together, she repeatedly warns him that she has no heart. Read an in-depth analysis of Estella. Miss Havisham - Miss Havisham is the wealthy, eccentric old woman who lives in a manor called Satis House near Pip’s village.

She is manic and often seems insane, flitting around her house in a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty minutes to nine. As a young woman, Miss Havisham was jilted by her fiancé minutes before her wedding, and now she has a vendetta against all men. She deliberately raises Estella to be the tool of her revenge, training her beautiful ward to break men’s hearts. Read an in-depth analysis of Miss Havisham. Abel Magwitch (“The Convict”) - A fearsome criminal, Magwitch escapes from prison at the beginning of Great Expectations and terrorizes Pip in the cemetery. Pip’s kindness, however, makes a deep impression on him, and he subsequently devotes himself to making a fortune and using it to elevate Pip into a higher social class. Behind the scenes, he becomes Pip’s secret benefactor, funding Pip’s education and opulent lifestyle in London through the lawyer Jaggers. Joe Gargery - Pip’s brother-in-law, the village blacksmith, Joe stays with his overbearing, abusive wife—known as Mrs. Joe—solely out of love for Pip.

Joe’s quiet goodness makes him one of the few completely sympathetic characters in Great Expectations. Although he is uneducated and unrefined, he consistently acts for the benefit of those he loves and suffers in silence when Pip treats him coldly. Jaggers - The powerful, foreboding lawyer hired by Magwitch to supervise Pip’s elevation to the upper class. As one of the most important criminal lawyers in London, Jaggers is privy to some dirty business; he consorts with vicious criminals, and even they are terrified of him. But there is more to Jaggers than his impenetrable exterior. He often seems to care for Pip, and before the novel begins he helps Miss Havisham to adopt the orphaned Estella. Jaggers smells strongly of soap: he washes his hands obsessively as a psychological mech-anism to keep the criminal taint from corrupting him. Herbert Pocket - Pip first meets Herbert Pocket in the garden of Satis House, when, as a pale young gentleman, Herbert challenges him to a fight. Years later, they meet again in London, and Herbert becomes Pip’s best friend and key companion after Pip’s elevation to the status of gentleman.

Herbert nicknames Pip “Handel.” He is the son of Matthew Pocket, Miss Havisham’s cousin, and hopes to become a merchant so that he can afford to marry Clara Barley. Wemmick - Jaggers’s clerk and Pip’s friend, Wemmick is one of the strangest characters in Great Expectations. At work, he is hard, cynical, sarcastic, and obsessed with “portable property”; at home in Walworth, he is jovial, wry, and a tender caretaker of his “Aged Parent.” Biddy - A simple, kindhearted country girl, Biddy first befriends Pip when they attend school together. After Mrs. Joe is attacked and becomes an invalid, Biddy moves into Pip’s home to care for her. Throughout most of the novel, Biddy represents the opposite of Estella; she is plain, kind, moral, and of Pip’s own social class. Dolge Orlick - The day laborer in Joe’s forge, Orlick is a slouching, oafish embodiment of evil. He is malicious and shrewd, hurting people simply because he enjoys it. He is responsible for the attack on Mrs.

Joe, and he later almost succeeds in his attempt to murder Pip. Mrs. Joe - Pip’s sister and Joe’s wife, known only as “Mrs. Joe” throughout the novel. Mrs. Joe is a stern and overbearing figure to both Pip and Joe. She keeps a spotless household and frequently menaces her husband and her brother with her cane, which she calls “Tickler.” She also forces them to drink a foul-tasting concoction called tar-water. Mrs. Joe is petty and ambitious; her fondest wish is to be something more than what she is, the wife of the village blacksmith. Uncle Pumblechook - Pip’s pompous, arrogant uncle. (He is actually Joe’s uncle and, therefore, Pip’s “uncle-in-law,” but Pip and his sister both call him “Uncle Pumblechook.”) A merchant obsessed with money, Pumblechook is responsible for arranging Pip’s first meeting with Miss Havisham. Throughout the rest of the novel, he will shamelessly take credit for Pip’s rise in social status, even though he has nothing to do with it, since Magwitch, not Miss Havisham, is Pip’s secret benefactor.

Compeyson - A criminal and the former partner of Magwitch, Compeyson is an educated, gentlemanly outlaw who contrasts sharply with the coarse and uneducated Magwitch. Compeyson is responsible for Magwitch’s capture at the end of the novel. He is also the man who jilted Miss Havisham on her wedding day. Bentley Drummle - An oafish, unpleasant young man who attends tutoring sessions with Pip at the Pockets’ house, Drummle is a minor member of the nobility, and the sense of superiority this gives him makes him feel justified in acting cruelly and harshly toward everyone around him. Drummle eventually marries Estella, to Pip’s chagrin; she is miserable in their marriage and reunites with Pip after Drummle dies some eleven years later. Molly - Jaggers’s housekeeper. In Chapter 48, Pip realizes that she is Estella’s mother. Mr. Wopsle - The church clerk in Pip’s country town; Mr. Wopsle’s aunt is the local schoolteacher. Sometime after Pip becomes a gentleman, Mr. Wopsle moves to London and becomes an actor.

Startop - A friend of Pip’s and Herbert’s. Startop is a delicate young man who, with Pip and Drummle, takes tutelage with Matthew Pocket. Later, Startop helps Pip and Herbert with Magwitch’s escape. Miss Skiffins - Wemmick’s beloved, and eventual wife. Great Expectations (2012) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

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Director: Alfonso Cuarón Great Expectations (TV Movie 1999) Drama A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. Director: Julian Jarrold A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. Director: Graham McLaren Prepare for a life of great expectations. See more » Genres: Rated PG-13 for some violence including disturbing images | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 8 November 2013 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Grandes Esperanças See more » Filming Locations: $88,500 (USA) (8 November 2013) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Helena Bonham Carter stated in an interview that she wore only one shoe for the filming of Great Expectations, as in the book, Dickens described Miss Havisham as wearing only one shoe. See more » Goofs At the very beginning when Pip is running towards the camera he steps into a muddy hole where there seems to be large wide modern tyre marks. See more » Quotes Jaggers : Estella is not the spider's reward. Estella is his punishment. Pip : And you arranged it.

Written by Johann Strauss Sr. (as Johann Strauss I) Performed by Christian Pollack & Slovak Sinfonietta Well-Planned Adaptation That Loses its Way a Little Towards the End 28 February 2014 | by l_rawjalaurence (London) – See all my reviews Thematically speaking, Mike Newell's GREAT EXPECTATIONS depicts a world in which money talks: where rich n'er-do-wells such as Bentley Drummle (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) manage to find the girls of their choice, while fundamentally good people such as Pip (Toby/ Jeremy Irvine) end up unlucky. To survive in this world, Pip has to shed his humanity; this is especially evident in his offhand treatment of Joe Gargery (Jason Flemyng), when the blacksmith comes to visit him in London. Likewise Estella (Helena Barlow/ Holliday Granger) is brought up in a world where any display of emotion or human feeling is considered weak; hence she believes it is her destiny to marry Bentley, even though the couple are not in love with one another.

The quintessential representative of this rapacious world is Jaggers (Robbie Coltrane), who believes that everything - including human beings - are to be bought and sold for money. Hence Joe Gargery should be happy to accept twenty-five guineas in exchange for Pip. Unless you've got money, you'll not have any Great Expectations. Newell's film is also very good at depicting the relationships between Pip, Estella and Miss Havisham (Helena Bonham Carter) - although somewhat young for the role, Bonham Carter comes across as a fundamentally vindictive person, who enjoys playing with Estella and Pip's feelings in revenge for her own frustrations at being jilted on her wedding-day several years previously. As with most BBC- inspired costume dramas, the sense of place is beautifully evoked, even though Jim Clay's production designs; nineteenth-century London is a teeming, threatening world in which self-interest prevails. This is contrasted with the rural Kent coast where Joe and his sister (Sally Hawkins), a lonely world of sprawling landscapes and russet sunsets.

Perhaps the only criticism that might be leveled at this adaptation is the fact that David Nicholls' screenplay runs out of steam somewhat: the plot-details are rather hurriedly wrapped up in the last half-hour at the expense of characterization and atmosphere. This is a shame, as it deflects out attention from the developing relationship between Pip and Abel Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes), which proves beyond doubt that compassion is far more significant than money to ensure human survival. 4 of 6 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Great Expectations Characters | GradeSaver simple, silly folks from Pip's village. Mr. Hubble is a wheelwright. Uncle Pumblechook Joe's uncle, a well-to-do corn-chandler in the village. He considers himself upper-class and is actually a bombastic fool. Mr. Wopsle's great aunt runs the so-called school in town out of a cottage. A "ridiculous old lady." Biddy a kind, intelligent girl Pip's age who works for Mr. Wopsle's great aunt at the school. Later, she comes to work for Joe taking care of Mrs. Joe Gargery.

Miss Havisham a strange, wrinkled up lady who never sees the sunlight and never gets out of her bridal gown. She's actually a very cold hearted, yet wealthy, lady who lives just outside the village in a the Satis House. Estella Miss Havisham's adopted daughter. Cold and very proud but very beautiful. She's about Pip's age and is the love of Pip's life. Geogiana Aging relatives of Miss Havisham who don't have an inch of love for the woman but are greedy for her money. They buzz around Miss Havisham like flies. Sarah Pocket Aging relatives of Miss Havisham who don't have an inch of love for the woman but are greedy for her money. They buzz around Miss Havisham like flies. Cousin Raymond Aging relatives of Miss Havisham who don't have an inch of love for the woman but are greedy for her money. They buzz around Miss Havisham like flies. Camilla Aging relatives of Miss Havisham who don't have an inch of love for the woman but are greedy for her money. They buzz around Miss Havisham like flies. Orlick a gruff evil man that Joe employs around the forge.

He seems to hate just about everybody, but has a crush on Biddy. Matthew Pocket Miss Havisham's cousin, but not one of her relatives that is greedy. Matthew Pocket has charge of nine children, two nurses, and a pretty but useless wife. He also tutors young gentlemen, including Pip. Herbert Pocket Matthew's son. An extremely cheerful and honest boy about Pip's age. He become Pip's best friend in London. Jaggers rational and seemingly emotionless lawyer for Miss Havisham and for Pip. He is an excellent speaker and logician, however, and specializes in getting criminals light sentences. Wemmick Jaggers' stiff clerk by day, esoteric and generous man in private. Wemmick lives in a cottage he fashioned into a castle and fights to divide his public and private life. Wemmick becomes a good friend of Pip's (in private). The "Aged" Wemmick's elderly, and quite deaf, relative (of unknown relations). The Aged lives with Wemmick in his castle and is quite happy when you nod at him. The "Avenger" Pip's servant boy who Pip finds more of a nuisance than a help.

Pip never has enough for him to do, so the Avenger always seems to be standing around. Drummle another student and boarder of Matthew Pocket. He is a moody, disgruntled "spider" but comes from an upper-class family. Startop another student and boarder of Matthew Pocket. He is a good friend of Pip's. Miss Skiffins Wemmick's sweetheart. Clara Herbert secret sweetheart. She is secret because Herbert knows his mother would say she is below his "station." She's actually a sweet, fairy-like girl who takes care of her dying drunk of a father. Magwitch the convict that Pip helps at the beginning of the movie. He later returns as Pip's benefactor under the name of Provis. He is a rough ex-con, but seems to have a good heart. Compeyson Magwitch's mortal enemy and the other convict Pip saw in the marshes fighting with Magwitch. Compeyson is a gentlemanly swindler who was the fiancé that swindled Miss Havisham out of her heart. Great Expectations Summary This page presents a summary of the plot and characters of Great Expectations, a novel by Charles Dickens .

Great Expectations Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens written and published between 1860 and 1861. The work was originally published in weekly installments, from December 1 1860 to August 1861 in the magazine "All the Year Round", a periodical directed by Dickens. Great Expectations is considered one of the greatest and most sophisticated novels by Dickens, and one of his most popular. The novel has had more than 250 adaptations on stage and screen. Great Expectations is representative of a type of book called "bildungsroman", which typically follows the fortunes of the protagonist in his or her search for maturity, often beginning in childhood and reaching middle age. Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Philip Pirrip called "Pip", describing his first days of his life from childhood to adulthood, as the protagonist tries, in the course of the novel to become a gentleman. Like David Copperfield, and many of Dickens' other works, the book is semi-autobiographical. The plot starts on Christmas Eve of 1812 (year of birth of Dickens), when the orphan is about seven years, and ends in the winter of 1840.

Each instalment in "All the Year Round" contained two chapters and was written so as to "capture" the readers, stimulating their curiosity about the next episode. Great Expectations was first published in book form, in three volumes, in July 1861. Great Expectations: Plot Summary The novel's protagonist is Pip (short for Philip Pirrip), an orphan who lives with his sister, many years older than him, and her husband. The relationship with his sister is not very good, because she is very often abusive and uses a cane which she has nicknamed Tickler. In a swamp near the village Pip encounters an escaped criminal named Magwitch who obliges Pip to bring him food and a file to saw the chains that bind him. Too frightened to disobey, the child steals food from the pantry of his sister's house although he is very afraid of she will find out. Later, Pip comes under the protection of a local aristocrat, Miss Havisham, in whose home he meets Estella, a girl who had been adopted and raised by Miss Havisham. Pip falls in love with Estella but she is unattainable because of his humble conditions and rough upbringing.

Pip is paid to be a "playmate" for the old lady, but even though everyone thinks this is a great success because he is very happy to enter the house, the house of Miss Havisham inspires a sense of fear in Pip due to the fact that it is always intentionally dark. In fact, as Pipe later learns, Miss Havisham was jilted by her fiancï¿½ on the day of the wedding, who informed her in a letter that he had run off with another woman. Overwhelmed by grief, Miss Havisham decided to leave the house exactly as it was when she opened the letter, including the now moldy cake, lying on a table for decades. She also adopted Estella, a beautiful orphan girl, knowing that all men would desire but none could have her. In this way Miss Havisham hoped to exact her revenge on men for what had happened to her. Later in the novel Pip receives a huge fortune, which is believed to have been donated by his patroness, who had become fond of him; the benefactor wishes to remain anonymous, however. This new found fortune creates high hopes, or great expectations, for Pip.

He movies to London to complete his studies and to enter into high society, but despite this, Pip can not quite settle into city life. Pip is also disappointed that Estella has married a brute. Pip subsequently learns that his fortune comes from Magwitch, who had been deported to Australia where he had made a fortune, but had kept intact his gratitude for the child, who had brought him food when he was hiding in the swamp. Magwitch comes to London to see Pip, risking his life, because he has escaped the deportation and would certainly be executed if discovered. Pip his forced to hide the fugitive. Ever since he was a child Pip has secretly felt guilty about helping the convict. He is afraid that someone will find out and he will be arrested. When Pip learns that his financial fortune actually comes from the criminal, he has an internal crisis. While in London, Pip learns of the deaths of his sister and of Miss Havisham. He also becomes friends with Herbert, and comes into contact with Jaggers, the intermediary who delivered the money from Magwitch. Pip receives a message that is invited to come to his home town to discuss important events.

But it is a trap engineered by the aid of a blacksmith Joe Orlick, a violent and evil being, who locks Pip up in a shack and wants to kill him. Pip is saved only by last minute intervention of his friend Herbert. Together Pip and Herbert decide to help Magwitch escape overseas, but they are discovered. Magwicth is condemned to hand but he dies before he can be executed. Meanwhile, however, because of all the expenses incurred in London, Pip is no longer able to afford a luxurious life or to finish his studies, and so he returns to hometown, where he learns that Estella is the daughter of Magwitch. Dickens wrote two alternate endings to Great Expectations. The original ending was changed at the urging of his friend, the author Edward Bulwer Lytton, who allegedly advised him to end the novel with a happy ending. Most of the editions of the novel have been published properly in the first ending, or both, accompanied by explanatory notes written by Dickens. In the original ending, Pip meets Estella on the road.

Her husband has died and she remarried, to a doctor Estella and Pip exchange pleasantries, after which Pip says that although in the end she may not have been his, he is glad to see that she is now a different person, different from the girl from the heart of ice that Miss Havisham had created. The book ends with Pip saying: "Suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be." In the alternate version Pip and Estella find each other in the ruins of Miss Havisham's abandoned house: "We are friends," said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench. "And will continue friends apart". I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

ï¿½ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Great Expectations Summary | GradeSaver Great Expectations Summary Buy Study Guide Great Expectations is the story of Pip , an orphan boy adopted by a blacksmith's family, who has good luck and great expectations, and then loses both his luck and his expectations. Through this rise and fall, however, Pip learns how to find happiness. He learns the meaning of friendship and the meaning of love and, of course, becomes a better person for it. The story opens with the narrator, Pip, who introduces himself and describes a much younger Pip staring at the gravestones of his parents. This tiny, shivering bundle of a boy is suddenly terrified by a man dressed in a prison uniform. The man tells Pip that if he wants to live, he'll go down to his house and bring him back some food and a file for the shackle on his leg. Pip runs home to his sister, Mrs. Joe Gragery, and his adoptive father, Joe Gragery. Mrs. Joe is a loud, angry, nagging woman who constantly reminds Pip and her husband Joe of the difficulties she has gone through to raise Pip and take care of the house.

Pip finds solace from these rages in Joe, who is more his equal than a paternal figure, and they are united under a common oppression. Pip steals food and a pork pie from the pantry shelf and a file from Joe's forge and brings them back to the escaped convict the next morning. Soon thereafter, Pip watches the man get caught by soldiers and the whole event soon disappears from his young mind. Mrs. Joe comes home one evening, quite excited, and proclaims that Pip is going to "play" for Miss Havisham , "a rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house." Pip is brought to Miss Havisham's place, a mansion called the "Satis House," where sunshine never enters. He meets a girl about his age, Estella , "who was very pretty and seemed very proud." Pip instantly falls in love with her and will love her the rest of the story. He then meets Miss Havisham, a willowy, yellowed old woman dressed in an old wedding gown. Miss Havisham seems most happy when Estella insults Pip's coarse hands and his thick boots as they play. Pip is insulted, but thinks there is something wrong with him.

He vows to change, to become uncommon, and to become a gentleman. Pip continues to visit Estella and Miss Havisham for eight months and learns more about their strange life. Miss Havisham brings him into a great banquet hall where a table is set with food and large wedding cake. But the food and the cake are years old, untouched except by a vast array of rats, beetles and spiders which crawl freely through the room. Her relatives all come to see her on the same day of the year: her birthday and wedding day, the day when the cake was set out and the clocks were stopped many years before; i.e. the day Miss Havisham stopped living. Pip begins to dream what life would be like if he were a gentleman and wealthy. This dream ends when Miss Havisham asks Pip to bring Joe to visit her, in order that he may start his indenture as a blacksmith. Miss Havisham gives Joe twenty five pounds for Pip's service to her and says good-bye. Pip explains his misery to his readers: he is ashamed of his home, ashamed of his trade. He wants to be uncommon, he wants to be a gentleman.

He wants to be a part of the environment that he had a small taste of at the Manor House. Early in his indenture, Mrs. Joe is found lying unconscious, knocked senseless by some unknown assailant. She has suffered some serious brain damage, having lost much of voice, her hearing, and her memory. Furthermore, her "temper was greatly improved, and she was patient." To help with the housework and to take care of Mrs. Joe, Biddy , a young orphan friend of Pip's, moves into the house. The years pass quickly. It is the fourth year of Pip's apprenticeship and he is sitting with Joe at the pub when they are approached by a stranger. Pip recognizes him, and his "smell of soap," as a man he had once run into at Miss Havisham's house years before. Back at the house, the man, Jaggers , explains that Pip now has "great expectations." He is to be given a large monthly stipend, administered by Jaggers who is a lawyer. The benefactor, however, does not want to be known and is to remain a mystery. Pip spends an uncomfortable evening with Biddy and Joe, then retires to bed.

There, despite having all his dreams come true, he finds himself feeling very lonely. Pip visits Miss Havisham who hints subtly that she is his unknown sponsor. Pip goes to live in London and meets Wemmick , Jagger's square-mouth clerk. Wemmick brings Pip to Bernard's Inn, where Pip will live for the next five years with Matthew Pocket 's son Herbert, a cheerful young gentleman that becomes one of Pip's best friends. From Herbert, Pips finds out that Miss Havisham adopted Estella and raised her to wreak revenge on the male gender by making them fall in love with her, and then breaking their hearts. Pip is invited to dinner at Wemmick's whose slogan seems to be "Office is one thing, private life is another." Indeed, Wemmick has a fantastical private life. Although he lives in a small cottage, the cottage has been modified to look a bit like a castle, complete with moat, drawbridge, and a firing cannon. The next day, Jaggers himself invites Pip and friends to dinner. Pip, on Wemmick's suggestion, looks carefully at Jagger's servant woman -- a "tigress" according to Wemmick.

She is about forty, and seems to regard Jaggers with a mix of fear and duty. Pip journeys back to the Satis House to see Miss Havisham and Estella, who is now older and so much more beautiful that he doesn't recognize her at first. Facing her now, he slips back "into the coarse and common voice" of his youth and she, in return, treats him like the boy he used to be. Pip sees something strikingly familiar in Estella's face. He can't quite place the look, but an expression on her face reminds him of someone. Pip stays away from Joe and Biddy's house and the forge, but walks around town, enjoying the admiring looks he gets from his past neighbors. Soon thereafter, a letter for Pip announces the death of Mrs. Joe Gragery. Pip returns home again to attend the funeral. Later, Joe and Pip sit comfortably by the fire like times of old. Biddy insinuates that Pip will not be returning soon as he promises and he leaves insulted. Back in London, Pip asks Wemmick for advice on how to give Herbert some of his yearly stipend anonymously.

Narrator Pip describes his relationship to Estella while she lived in the city: "I suffered every kind and degree of torture that Estella could cause me," he says. Pip finds out that Drummle , the most repulsive of his acquaintances, has begun courting Estella. Years go by and Pip is still living the same wasteful life of a wealthy young man in the city. A rough sea-worn man of sixty comes to Pip's home on a stormy night soon after Pip's twenty-fourth birthday. Pip invites him in, treats him with courteous disdain, but then begins to recognize him as the convict that he fed in the marshes when he was a child. The man, Magwitch , reveals that he is Pip's benefactor. Since the day that Pip helped him, he swore to himself that every cent he earned would go to Pip. "I've made a gentleman out of you," the man exclaims. Pip is horrified. All of his expectations are demolished. There is no grand design by Miss Havisham to make Pip happy and rich, living in harmonious marriage to Estella.

The convict tells Pip that he has come back to see him under threat of his life, since the law will execute him if they find him in England. Pip is disgusted with him, but wants to protect him and make sure he isn't found and put to death. Herbert and Pip decide that Pip will try and convince Magwitch to leave England with him. Magwitch tells them the story of his life. From a very young age, he was alone and got into trouble. In one of his brief stints actually out of jail, Magwitch met a young well-to-do gentleman named Compeyson who had his hand in everything illegal: swindling, forgery, and other white collar crime. Compeyson recruited Magwitch to do his dirty work and landed Magwitch into trouble with the law. Magwitch hates the man. Herbert passes a note to Pip telling him that Compeyson was the name of the man who left Miss Havisham on her wedding day. Pip goes back to Satis House and finds Miss Havisham and Estella in the same banquet room. Pip breaks down and confesses his love for Estella.

Estella tells him straight that she is incapable of love -- she has warned him of as much before -- and she will soon be married to Drummle. Back in London, Wemmick tells Pip things he has learned from the prisoners at Newgate. Pip is being watched, he says, and may be in some danger. As well, Compeyson has made his presence known in London. Wemmick has already warned Herbert as well. Heeding the warning, Herbert has hidden Magwitch in his fiancé Clara 's house. Pip has dinner with Jaggers and Wemmick at Jaggers' home. During the dinner, Pip finally realizes the similarities between Estella and Jaggers' servant woman. Jaggers' servant woman is Estella's mother! On their way home together, Wemmick tells the story of Jaggers' servant woman. It was Jaggers' first big break-through case, the case that made him. He was defending this woman in a case where she was accused of killing another woman by strangulation. The woman was also said to have killed her own child, a girl, at about the same time as the murder. Miss Havisham asks Pip to come visit her.

He finds her again sitting by the fire, but this time she looks very lonely. Pip tells her how he was giving some of his money to help Herbert with his future, but now must stop since he himself is no longer taking money from his benefactor. Miss Havisham wants to help, and she gives Pip nine hundred pounds to help Herbert out. She then asks Pip for forgiveness. Pip tells her she is already forgiven and that he needs too much forgiving himself not to be able to forgive others. Pip goes for a walk around the garden then comes back to find Miss Havisham on fire! Pip puts the fire out, burning himself badly in the process. The doctors come and announce that she will live. Pip goes home and Herbert takes care of his burns. Herbert has been spending some time with Magwitch at Clara's and has been told the whole Magwitch story. Magwitch was the husband of Jaggers' servant woman, the Tigress. The woman had come to Magwitch on the day she murdered the other woman and told him she was going to kill their child and that Magwitch would never see her. And Magwitch never did.

Pip puts is all together and tells Herbert that Magwitch is Estella's father. It is time to escape with Magwitch. Herbert and Pip get up the next morning and start rowing down the river, picking up Magwitch at the preappointed time. They are within a few feet of a steamer that they hope to board when another boat pulls alongside to stop them. In the confusion, Pip sees Compeyson leading the other boat, but the steamer is on top of them. The steamer crushes Pip's boat, Compeyson and Magwitch disappear under water, and Pip and Herbert find themselves in a police boat of sorts. Magwitch finally comes up from the water. He and Compeyson wrestled for a while, but Magwitch had let him go and he is presumably drowned. Once again, Magwitch is shackled and arrested. Magwitch is in jail and quite ill. Pip attends to the ailing Magwitch daily in prison. Pip whispers to him one day that the daughter he thought was dead is quite alive. "She is a lady and very beautiful," Pip says. "And I love her." Magwitch gives up the ghost. Pip falls into a fever for nearly a month.

Creditors and Joe fall in and out of his dreams and his reality. Finally, he regains his senses and sees that, indeed, Joe has been there the whole time, nursing him back to health. Joe tells him that Miss Havisham died during his illness, that she left Estella nearly all, and Matthew Pocket a great deal. Joe slips away one morning leaving only a note. Pip discovers that Joe has paid off all his debtors. Pip is committed to returning to Joe, asking for forgiveness for everything he has done, and to ask Biddy to marry him. Pip goes to Joe and indeed finds happiness -- but the happiness is Joe and Biddy's. It is their wedding day. Pip wishes them well, truly, and asks them for their forgiveness in all his actions. They happily give it. Pip goes to work for Herbert's' firm and lives with the now married Clara and Herbert. Within a year, he becomes a partner. He pays off his debts and works hard. Eleven years later, Pip returns from his work overseas. He visits Joe and Biddy and meets their son, a little Pip, sitting by the fire with Joe just like Pip himself did years ago.

Pip tells Biddy that he is quite the settled old bachelor, living with Clara and Herbert and he thinks he will never marry. Nevertheless, he goes to the Satis House that night to think once again of the girl who got away. And there he meets Estella. Drummle treated her roughly and recently died. She tells Pip that she has learned the feeling of heartbreak the hard way and now seeks his forgiveness for what she did to him. The two walk out of the garden hand in hand, and Pip "saw the shadow of no parting from her." SparkNotes: Great Expectations: Analysis of Major Characters Analysis of Major Characters Themes, Motifs & Symbols Pip As a bildungsroman, Great Expectations presents the growth and development of a single character, Philip Pirrip, better known to himself and to the world as Pip. As the focus of the bildungsroman, Pip is by far the most important character in Great Expectations: he is both the protagonist, whose actions make up the main plot of the novel, and the narrator, whose thoughts and attitudes shape the reader’s perception of the story. As a result, developing an understanding of Pip’s character is perhaps the most important step in understanding Great Expectations.

Because Pip is narrating his story many years after the events of the novel take place, there are really two Pips in Great Expectations: Pip the narrator and Pip the character—the voice telling the story and the person acting it out. Dickens takes great care to distinguish the two Pips, imbuing the voice of Pip the narrator with perspective and maturity while also imparting how Pip the character feels about what is happening to him as it actually happens. This skillfully executed distinction is perhaps best observed early in the book, when Pip the character is a child; here, Pip the narrator gently pokes fun at his younger self, but also enables us to see and feel the story through his eyes. As a character, Pip’s two most important traits are his immature, romantic idealism and his innately good conscience. On the one hand, Pip has a deep desire to improve himself and attain any possible advancement, whether educational, moral, or social. His longing to marry Estella and join the upper classes stems from the same idealistic desire as his longing to learn to read and his fear of being punished for bad behavior: once he understands ideas like poverty, ignorance, and immorality, Pip does not want to be poor, ignorant, or immoral.

Pip the narrator judges his own past actions extremely harshly, rarely giving himself credit for good deeds but angrily castigating himself for bad ones. As a character, however, Pip’s idealism often leads him to perceive the world rather narrowly, and his tendency to oversimplify situations based on superficial values leads him to behave badly toward the people who care about him. When Pip becomes a gentleman, for example, he immediately begins to act as he thinks a gentleman is supposed to act, which leads him to treat Joe and Biddy snobbishly and coldly. On the other hand, Pip is at heart a very generous and sympathetic young man, a fact that can be witnessed in his numerous acts of kindness throughout the book (helping Magwitch, secretly buying Herbert’s way into business, etc.) and his essential love for all those who love him. Pip’s main line of development in the novel may be seen as the process of learning to place his innate sense of kindness and conscience above his immature idealism. Not long after meeting Miss Havisham and Estella, Pip’s desire for advancement largely overshadows his basic goodness.

After receiving his mysterious fortune, his idealistic wishes seem to have been justified, and he gives himself over to a gentlemanly life of idleness. But the discovery that the wretched Magwitch, not the wealthy Miss Havisham, is his secret benefactor shatters Pip’s oversimplified sense of his world’s hierarchy. The fact that he comes to admire Magwitch while losing Estella to the brutish nobleman Drummle ultimately forces him to realize that one’s social position is not the most important quality one possesses, and that his behavior as a gentleman has caused him to hurt the people who care about him most. Once he has learned these lessons, Pip matures into the man who narrates the novel, completing the bildungsroman. Estella Often cited as Dickens’s first convincing female character, Estella is a supremely ironic creation, one who darkly undermines the notion of romantic love and serves as a bitter criticism against the class system in which she is mired. Raised from the age of three by Miss Havisham to torment men and “break their hearts,” Estella wins Pip’s deepest love by practicing deliberate cruelty.

Unlike the warm, winsome, kind heroine of a traditional love story, Estella is cold, cynical, and manipulative. Though she represents Pip’s first longed-for ideal of life among the upper classes, Estella is actually even lower-born than Pip; as Pip learns near the end of the novel, she is the daughter of Magwitch, the coarse convict, and thus springs from the very lowest level of society. Ironically, life among the upper classes does not represent salvation for Estella. Instead, she is victimized twice by her adopted class. Rather than being raised by Magwitch, a man of great inner nobility, she is raised by Miss Havisham, who destroys her ability to express emotion and interact normally with the world. And rather than marrying the kindhearted commoner Pip, Estella marries the cruel nobleman Drummle, who treats her harshly and makes her life miserable for many years. In this way, Dickens uses Estella’s life to reinforce the idea that one’s happiness and well-being are not deeply connected to one’s social position: had Estella been poor, she might have been substantially better off.

Despite her cold behavior and the damaging influences in her life, Dickens nevertheless ensures that Estella is still a sympathetic character. By giving the reader a sense of her inner struggle to discover and act on her own feelings rather than on the imposed motives of her upbringing, Dickens gives the reader a glimpse of Estella’s inner life, which helps to explain what Pip might love about her. Estella does not seem able to stop herself from hurting Pip, but she also seems not to want to hurt him; she repeatedly warns him that she has “no heart” and seems to urge him as strongly as she can to find happiness by leaving her behind. Finally, Estella’s long, painful marriage to Drummle causes her to develop along the same lines as Pip—that is, she learns, through experience, to rely on and trust her inner feelings. In the final scene of the novel, she has become her own woman for the first time in the book. As she says to Pip, “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching. . . .

I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.” Miss Havisham The mad, vengeful Miss Havisham, a wealthy dowager who lives in a rotting mansion and wears an old wedding dress every day of her life, is not exactly a believable character, but she is certainly one of the most memorable creations in the book. Miss Havisham’s life is defined by a single tragic event: her jilting by Compeyson on what was to have been their wedding day. From that moment forth, Miss Havisham is determined never to move beyond her heartbreak. She stops all the clocks in Satis House at twenty minutes to nine, the moment when she first learned that Compeyson was gone, and she wears only one shoe, because when she learned of his betrayal, she had not yet put on the other shoe. With a kind of manic, obsessive cruelty, Miss Havisham adopts Estella and raises her as a weapon to achieve her own revenge on men. Miss Havisham is an example of single-minded vengeance pursued destructively: both Miss Havisham and the people in her life suffer greatly because of her quest for revenge.

Miss Havisham is completely unable to see that her actions are hurtful to Pip and Estella. She is redeemed at the end of the novel when she realizes that she has caused Pip’s heart to be broken in the same manner as her own; rather than achieving any kind of personal revenge, she has only caused more pain. Miss Havisham immediately begs Pip for forgiveness, reinforcing the novel’s theme that bad behavior can be redeemed by contrition and sympathy. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Search eText, Read Online, Study, Discuss. Estella's Feelings for Pip Hi! I'm writing an essay on Estella's character development, and I want to know what other people think about an interaction between Estella and Pip. Towards the end of Chapter 44 (XLIV), Pip and Estella share the following exchange: I know,ï¿½ said I, in answer to that action; ï¿½I know. I have no hope that I shall ever call you mine, Estella. I am ignorant what may become of me very soon, how poor I may be, or where I may go. Still, I love you.

I have loved you ever since I first saw you in this house.ï¿½ Looking at me perfectly unmoved and with her fingers busy, she shook her head again. ï¿½It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.ï¿½ I saw Miss Havisham put her hand to her heart and hold it there, as she sat looking by turns at Estella and at me. ï¿½It seems,ï¿½ said Estella, very calmly, ï¿½that there are sentiments, fanciesï¿½I donï¿½t know how to call themï¿½which I am not able to comprehend. When you say you love me, I know what you mean, as a form of words; but nothing more. You address nothing in my breast, you touch nothing there. I donï¿½t care for what you say at all.

I have tried to warn you of this; now, have I not?ï¿½ I said in a miserable manner, ï¿½Yes.ï¿½ ï¿½Yes. But you would not be warned, for you thought I did not mean it. Now, did you not think so?ï¿½ ï¿½I thought and hoped you could not mean it. You, so young, untried, and beautiful, Estella! Surely it is not in Nature.ï¿½ ï¿½It is in my nature,ï¿½ she returned. And then she added, with a stress upon the words, ï¿½It is in the nature formed within me. I make a great difference between you and all other people when I say so much. I can do no more.ï¿½ ... ï¿½On whom should I fling myself away?ï¿½ she retorted, with a smile. ï¿½Should I fling myself away upon the man who would the soonest feel (if people do feel such things) that I took nothing to him? There! It is done. I shall do well enough, and so will my husband.

As to leading me into what you call this fatal step, Miss Havisham would have had me wait, and not marry yet; but I am tired of the life I have led, which has very few charms for me, and I am willing enough to change it. Say no more. We shall never understand each other.ï¿½ ï¿½Such a mean brute, such a stupid brute!ï¿½ I urged in despair. ï¿½Donï¿½t be afraid of my being a blessing to him,ï¿½ said Estella; ï¿½I shall not be that. Come! Here is my hand. Do we part on this, you visionary boyï¿½or man?ï¿½ ï¿½O Estella!ï¿½ I answered, as my bitter tears fell fast on her hand, do what I would to restrain them; ï¿½even if I remained in England and could hold my head up with the rest, how could I see you Drummleï¿½s wife?ï¿½ ï¿½Nonsense,ï¿½ she returned, ï¿½nonsense.

This will pass in no time.ï¿½ ï¿½Never, Estella!ï¿½ ï¿½You will get me out of your thoughts in a week.ï¿½ I know Estella is a cold character and doesn't love Pip, but does this passage show she cares for him? Particularly in "'Nonsense,' she returned... in a week'", I think she does feel a little bad for Pip, and is almost trying to convince herself that Pip doesn't love her. Even more so in when she gives him her hand, Estella acts like she does care for Pip, just not romantically. I'm not entirely sure if that's what Dickens intended for the takeaway to be, though, so I'd like to know what anyone else thinks! Also excuse my possibly confusing sentence structure; I'm writing an essay, and my brain is fried. Thank you!! Posted By hamleit at Sun 1 May 2016, 7:09 PM in Great Expectations || 1 Reply A bit of confusion I've just started reading Great Expectations, and so far am enjoying it. However, there is a particular sentence I'm having a terrible amount of trouble deciphering.

Here's the particular passage, with the particular offending part underlined: "There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle "examined" the scholars once a quarter. What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar. This was always followed by Collins's Ode on the Passions, wherein I particularly venerated Mr. Wopsle as Fear, whistling to keep his courage up. It was not with me then, as it was in later life, when I fell into the society of the Passions, and compared them with Collins and Wopsle, rather to the disadvantage of both gentlemen." What exactly was not "with him"? Posted By Murderous Moose at Thu 11 Feb 2016, 7:05 AM in Great Expectations || 3 Replies Finished reading it Hello everyone! 5 days ago I finished reading 'Great Expectations'. It was excellent. I liked the plot, the way it is written, the descriptions of the characters; in a word, I liked everything about it. One of the characters I really liked was Herbert.

I liked it when he called Pip 'Handel,' besides he was very kind-hearted. What do you think of him? Do you like him? Posted By Carmilla at Thu 17 Dec 2015, 1:15 PM in Great Expectations || 10 Replies Hello everyone!! I'm reading 'Great Expectations', and I found the word 'warmint'. I was wondering if you could help me with its meaning. Does it mean 'varmint'? Help, please! :) Posted By Carmilla at Wed 18 Nov 2015, 3:33 PM in Great Expectations || 6 Replies I was just wondering in what ways has Miss Havisham deceived herself about how she has chosen to live her life? Posted By jepense at Sun 12 Jul 2015, 10:06 PM in Great Expectations || 5 Replies An article into which Joe's destiny led him. In the following sentence in chapter 4 of Great Expectations, Dickens wrote : "Mrs.

Joe was prodigiously busy in getting the house ready for the festivities of the day, and Joe had been put upon the kitchen door-step to keep him out of the dust-panï¿½an article into which his destiny always led him, sooner or later, when my sister was vigorously reaping the floors of her establishment." Please explain what Dickens implied when he said the dust-pan was an article into which Joe's destiny always led him. Posted By noumenon52 at Mon 29 Jul 2013, 4:06 PM in Great Expectations || 3 Replies Some explanations needed. In chapter 3 of Great Expectations, when Pip wondered that the convict didn't hear the cannon the previous night. The convict said: ï¿½Why, see now!ï¿½ said he. ï¿½When a man's alone on these flats, with a light head and a light stomach, perishing of cold and want, he hears nothin' all night, but guns firing, and voices calling. Hears? He sees the soldiers, with their red coats lighted up by the torches carried afore, closing in round him.

Hears his number called, hears himself challenged, hears the rattle of the muskets, hears the orders ï¿½Make ready! Present! Cover him steady, men!ï¿½ and is laid hands onï¿½and there's nothin'! Why, if I see one pursuing party last nightï¿½coming up in order, Damn 'em, with their tramp, trampï¿½I see a hundred. And as to firing! Why, I see the mist shake with the cannon, arter it was broad dayï¿½But this man;ï¿½ he had said all the rest as if he had forgotten my being there; ï¿½did you notice anything in him?ï¿½ I don't quite understand what the convict tried to tell Pip. Did he just imagine what another convict might have heard and seen? Did he himself see the pursuing soldiers and hear the cannon? What did he mean when he said ".. and is laid hands onï¿½and there's nothin'! Why, if I see one pursuing party last nightï¿½coming up in order, Damn 'em, with their tramp, trampï¿½I see a hundred. And as to firing!

Why, I see the mist shake with the cannon, arter it was broad day---" ? Please explain. Posted By noumenon52 at Sat 27 Jul 2013, 3:51 AM in Great Expectations || 2 Replies New perspective on Great Expectations In 1858 Dickens wrote six letters (five unpublished) to Patrick-Allan Fraser of Arbroath who wished to gift Hawkesbury Hall near Coventry to Dickens' Guild of Literature and Art. As writer-in-residence at Hospitalfield, I've just read the letters and have reflected on how Pip's Great Expectations may have been inspired (in part) by the author's, as the book was conceived around this time, though not written until 'All the Year Round' needed an injection of quality writing in 1860/61. Anyway, to read more about the research, the link is patisback.co.uk though you'll have to add the w bits as well. Let me know if it's of interest!

Duncan McLaren Posted By duncanmclaren at Sat 6 Jul 2013, 6:14 PM in Great Expectations || 0 Replies Do character ages and timelines match? Do the ages and timelines of the characters in this book add up? In the first chapter, Pip seems about eight years old. Then, according to the book, he first visits Miss Havisham a year later. Here he meets Estella, who Pip thinks is about his own age, although she seems older. The way she talks about the brewery and what 'satis' means makes her sound older than nine. Pip seems somewhat older too. For example, he uses the word melancholy instead of sad. I would say they were both at least eleven. In most films and TV series, the young Estella looks about thirteen. Reading the book I imagined her being prepubescent, although Pip does say that one of the reasons she appeared older was that she was a girl. I am sure the book says he only visited the house for about ten months before he was apprenticed to Joe. Apprenticeships usually started at about age fourteen, so some more years seem to have disappeared from Pip's childhood.

Pip learns of his Great Expectations four years later, when he would be eighteen. This just about gives Magwitch time to be transported to Australia, serve his seven years forced labour and to start making lots of money. I also wondered about the ages of the older characters. Magwitch was described as about sixty when he comes back to see Pip, and he is still quite an active man. That makes him about forty-five when he first terrorises Pip in the graveyard, which is plausible. He would have been thirty-seven when he fathered Estella with Molly, which is plausible too. I am pretty sure he said Compeyson was described as being a younger man than Magwitch. Compeyson was supposed to marry Miss Havisham, so presumably they are about the same age. If anything, Miss Havisham would probably be a bit younger. If Compeyson is five years younger than Magwitch, and Miss Havisham is one year younger than Compeyson, that makes her fifty-four when things come to a head, and only thirty-nine when she first meets Pip. That seems far too young.

When Pip first meets her, she already seems like an old crone; she leans on his shoulder to exercise around her dining room. However, she does not seem to have aged any fifteen years later. In addition, Herbert tells Pip that Compeyson jilted Miss Havisham twenty-five years before they were born, which would make that forty-three years previously. If Miss Havisham was twenty when she was jilted, that would make her between fifty-three and fifty-six when she first met Pip, and sixty-eight when she died. Jaggers usually appears quite old in the TV and film adaptions, but his defence of Molly was the case that made his name as a lawyer. Say he was twenty-five at the time. That would make him forty when he meets Pip in the Jolly Bargemen and forty-five when everything goes badly wrong. Posted By kev67 at Sun 20 May 2012, 3:18 PM in Great Expectations || 2 Replies Physical abuse Do you think there is a disturbing message in GE that domestic abuse made Estella a better person? Evidently, Estella was damaged by Miss Havisham, but that was by psychological abuse, not physical.

Miss Havisham would never allow anyone else to chastise Estella; hence her impertinence to adults like Mr Pumblechook and Miss Camilla. Pip's male role model as a child was Joe. Joe never retaliates against his wife's beatings.Therefore Pip learns not retaliate when he is abused, either by his sister or Estella. Pip does not believe even Bentley Drummle would be scoundrel enough to beat his wife, when Jaggers suggests it. Evidently, Estella's experience of Pip was not good preparation for a life with Drummle. In the last chapter, Estella says she has been bent and broken, but hopefully into better shape. That is not a very edifying message. Posted By kev67 at Mon 14 May 2012, 10:28 PM in Great Expectations || 0 Replies Great Expectations Characters - eNotes.com Great Expectations Characters Great Expectations Characters Great Expectations key characters: In Great Expectations, well-intentioned orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip) is awarded a fortune by a mysterious benefactor; his gentlemanly aspirations lead to disaster until he recognizes his real friends.

Estella, a beautiful orphan raised by Miss Havisham to be cold and unfeeling, initially rejects Pip; he discovers her reformed and penitent years later, after which point it seems they will be together. Joe Gargery, Pip’s step-brother, helps raise Pip and cares for him; Joe is a true friend to Pip and comes to be a role model of selfless love and affection. Miss Havisham, a bitter lady who was jilted at the altar in her youth, raises Estella to break men’s hearts in revenge, but her plan leaves her alone and friendless. Abel Magwitch, the convict Pip helped in his youth, makes good in Australia and returns to England at the risk of his life to become Pip’s mysterious benefactor; recaptured, he dies in prison. Download Study Guide Start Free Trial Start your free trial with eNotes to access more than 30,000 study guides. Get help with any book. link Link Philip Pirrip Philip Pirrip, called Pip, an orphan and the unwanted ward of his harsh sister, Mrs. Joe.

Although seemingly destined for a career as a blacksmith, he sees his fortunes improve after he meets a convict hiding in a graveyard. Afterward, through Miss Havisham, he meets Estella, the eccentric old woman’s lovely young ward. Thinking Miss Havisham is his benefactor, he goes to London to become a gentleman. Unfortunately for his peace of mind, he forgets who his true friends are. Finally, after Magwitch, the convict, dies and the Crown confiscates his fortune, Pip understands that good clothes, well-spoken English, and a generous allowance do not make one a gentleman. Miss Havisham Miss Havisham, a lonely, embittered old woman. When her lover jilted her at the altar, she refused ever to leave her gloomy chambers. Instead, she has devoted her life to vengeance. With careful indoctrination, she teaches Estella how to break men’s hearts. Just before her death, she begs Pip to forgive her cruelty. Estella Estella, Miss Havisham’s ward. Cold, aloof, unfeeling, she tries to warn Pip not to love her, for she is incapable of loving anyone; Miss Havisham has taught her too well.

Years later, however, Pip meets her in the garden near the ruins of Satis House, Miss Havisham’s former home. She has lost her cool aloofness and found maturity. Pip realizes that they will never part again. Joe Gargery Joe Gargery, Pip’s brother-in-law. Even though he is married to the worst tempered of women, Mrs. Joe, he manages to retain his gentle simplicity and his selfless love for Pip. After he marries Biddy, he finds the domestic bliss that he so richly deserves. Mrs. Georgiana Maria Gargery Mrs. Georgiana Maria Gargery, commonly called Mrs. Joe, Pip’s vituperative sister, who berates and misuses him and Joe with impunity. When she verbally assails Joe’s helper, Orlick, she makes a mortal enemy who causes her death with the blow of a hammer. Later he tries to do the same for Pip. Abel Magwitch Abel Magwitch, alias Mr. Provis, Pip’s benefactor. When Pip helps him, an escaped convict, Magwitch promises to repay the debt. Transported to New South Wales, he eventually makes a large fortune as a sheep farmer.

When he returns illegally to England years later, the escaped felon reveals himself as Pip’s real patron. Casting off his distaste, Pip finds a real affection for the rough old man and attempts to get him safely out of England before the law apprehends him once more. Recaptured, Magwitch dies in prison. Mr. Jaggers Mr. Jaggers, a criminal lawyer employed by Magwitch to provide for Pip’s future. He is a shrewd man with the ability to size up a person at a glance. To him, personal feelings are unimportant; facts are the only trustworthy things. Although completely unemotional, he deals with Pip and Magwitch honestly throughout their long association. Herbert Pocket Herbert Pocket, Miss Havisham’s young relative and Pip’s roommate in London. Almost always cheerful and uncomplaining, he is constantly looking for ways to improve his prospects. With Pip’s aid, he is able to establish himself in a profitable business. John Wemmick John Wemmick, Mr. Jaggers’ efficient law clerk. Dry and businesslike in the office, he keeps his social and business life completely separate. As a friend, he proves himself completely loyal to Pip.

Biddy Biddy, Joe Gargery’s wife after the death of Mrs. Joe. A gentle, loving woman, she is a good wife to him. Compeyson Compeyson, a complete villain, the man who jilted Miss Havisham and betrayed Magwitch. He is killed by Magwitch as the two struggle desperately just before the ex-convict is recaptured. The Aged P The Aged P, John Wemmick’s deaf old father. In their neat little home, his chief pleasures are reading the newspaper aloud and listening to his son’s nightly firing of a small cannon. Dolge Orlick Dolge Orlick, Joe Gargery’s surly helper in the blacksmith shop. After an altercation with Mrs. Joe, he attacks her with a hammer. Later he plots to kill Pip, his hated enemy. Only the timely arrival of Herbert Pocket and Startop prevents the crime. Molly Molly, Mr. Jaggers’ housekeeper, a woman of strange, silent habits, with extraordinarily strong hands. A murderess, she is also revealed as Magwitch’s former mistress and Estella’s mother.

Matthew Pocket Matthew Pocket, Miss Havisham’s distant relative and Pip’s tutor during his early years in London. He is also Herbert Pocket’s father. Mrs. Belinda Pocket Mrs. Belinda Pocket, a fluttery, helpless woman, the daughter of a knight who had expected his daughter to marry a title. Alick Pocket Jane Pocket, other children of the Pockets. Sarah Pocket Sarah Pocket, another relative of Miss Havisham, a withered-appearing, sharp-tongued woman. Uncle Pumblechook Uncle Pumblechook, a prosperous corn chandler and Joe Gargery’s relative. During Pip’s childhood, he constantly discusses the boy’s conduct and offers much platitudinous advice. Clara Barley Clara Barley, a pretty, winning young woman engaged to Herbert Pocket. Magwitch is hidden in the Barley house while Pip is trying to smuggle the former convict out of England. Old Bill Barley Old Bill Barley, Clara’s father. A former purser, he is afflicted by gout and bedridden. Mr. Wopsle Mr. Wopsle, a parish clerk who later becomes an actor under the name of Mr. Waldengarver.

Pip and Herbert Pocket go to see his performance as Hamlet. Bentley Drummle Bentley Drummle, called The Spider, a sulky rich boy notable for his bad manners. He is Pip’s rival for Estella’s love. After marrying her, he treats her cruelly. Pip meets him while Drummle is being tutored by Mr. Pocket. Startop Startop, a lively young man tutored by Mr. Pocket. Mr. Trabb Mr. Trabb, a village tailor and undertaker. Trabb’s Boy Trabb’s Boy, a young apprentice whose independence is a source of irritation to Pip. Mr. John (Raymond) Camilla Mr. John (Raymond) Camilla, a toady. Mrs. Camilla Mrs. Camilla, his wife, Mr. Pocket’s sister. She and her husband hope to inherit a share of Miss Havisham’s fortune. Miss Skiffins Miss Skiffins, a woman of no certain age but the owner of “portable property,” who marries John Wemmick. Clarriker Clarriker, a young shipping broker in whose firm, Clarriker & Company, Pip secretly buys Herbert Pocket a partnership. Pepper

Question: What is the name of the orphan girl raised by Miss Havisham in ‘Great Expectations’?
Answer: ESTELLA