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GREAT EXPECTATIONS

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- 1—CHARLES DICKENS
1812 - 1870
- tough childhood: his father worked in a blacking factory and his family went to debtor´s prison
- he had to work as a child to support his family
- as a young adult he worked as a clerk and later as a journalist
- he wrote for a living and serialized his novels
- 2—Queen Victoria - the Victorian Age
1819 - 1901
- flourishing cities and emerging industries
- an abundance of poor people who worked long hours for little money
- education was a privilege of the rich
- child labour and abuse was quite frequent
- class structure and the differences between social classes was strongly respected
- 3—Charles Dickens
- the greatest novelist of the Victorian era
- published well over a dozen major novels and novellas, a large number of short stories, including a number of Christmas-themed stories, a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books.
- 4—- first published in 1860
- the 13th novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel
- was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861
- In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes
- 5—- 19th century England
- the marshes
- Satis House
- London
- 6—Pip
Estella
Mrs. Joe
Joe Gargery
Magwitch
Mr. Jaggers
Wemmick
Biddy
Herbert Pocket
Uncle Pumblechook
Bentley Drummle
- 7What is it really about? Themes, symbols and resolution- Ambition and Self-Improvement
- Social Class
- Crime, Guilt, and Innocence
- Sophistication
- Education and family
- the clock in Miss Havisham's house
- Dickens changed the ending at his friends' insistences - 8—- this is one of the many movies based on the novel, a contemporary film adaptation
- released in 1998
- directed by Alfonso Cuaron
- 9—- USA through the 1980s and the 1990s
- in Texas
- Paradiso Perduto
- New York
- 10Who are they? The CastEthan Hawke,
Gwyneth Paltrow,
Hank Azaria,
Robert De Niro,
Anne Bancroft
Chris Cooper.
- 11Alfonso Cuaron- moved the setting of the original novel from 1812-1827 London to 1990s New York.
- the hero's name has been changed from Pip to Finn
- the character Miss Havisham has been renamed Nora Dinsmoor
- Satis House becomes Paradiso Perduto
- The screenplay for this film was written by Mitch Glazer, loosely based on Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations
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