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Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations (1861). He is amongst the most popular characters in English literature. Pip narrates his story many years after the events of the novel take place. The novel follows Pip's process from childhood innocence to adulthood. The financial and ...
Philip "Pip" Pirrip is a seven-year-old orphan who lives with his hot-tempered older sister ... However, by tracing the origins of Pip's "great expectations" to crime ...
Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations.She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life.
Wopsle's great-aunt is Pip's first "teacher" in Great Expectations. "Mr Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village, that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the ...
Estella Havisham (married name Estella Drummle) is a significant character in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations. [1]Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady.
This adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel, which stars Olivia Colman, Fionn Whitehead and Shalom Brune-Franklin, is a very dark and different take.
Abel Magwitch is a major fictional character from Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations. Synopsis ... thus destroying Pip's great expectations.)
Miskel Spillman was just a regular 80-year-old grandmother from New Orleans when she hosted “SNL” in 1977. The winner of a contest and the only non-public figure to ever host the show, her ...