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''Great Expectations'' has been subject to many a film adaptation. The two most likely to have been viewed in a high school English class are the 1946 DavidLean one (generally regarded as the best) and the 1998 modern-day adaptation. There has also been a [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent Completely Different]] ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parody. A 2012 adaptation will feature features ''Film/HarryPotter'' veterans HelenaBonhamCarter, Ralph Fiennes, JessieCave, and Robbie Coltrane, as well as Jason Flemyng, David Walliams from ''LittleBritain'', and Ralph Ineson from ''TheOffice''.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Dickens is famous for having a disproportionate number of characters find out that they're related to each other or met previously, and ''Great Expectations'' is no exception: Pip meets the convict more than once, Jaggers serves as the lawyer of at least three key characters, both of the escaped convicts turn out to be entwined in the other character's stories, and Estella's parents are both sprinkled throughout the cast.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Dickens is famous for having a disproportionate number of characters find out that they're related to each other or met previously, and ''Great Expectations'' is no exception: Pip meets the convict more than once, Jaggers serves as the lawyer of at least three key characters, both of the escaped convicts turn out to be entwined in the other character's characters' stories, and Estella's parents are both sprinkled throughout the cast.
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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Joe's mother was abused when he was younger and because of that he fears he will put his own wife (Pip's sister) through the same thing so he is rather passive towards her with the irony being that he is now the abused one and puts up with his wife's abuse of himself and Pip though he does his best to protest him in his own way.]]
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* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Joe's mother was abused when he was younger and because of that he fears he will put his own wife (Pip's sister) through the same thing so he is rather passive towards her her, with the irony being that he is now the abused one and puts up with his wife's abuse of himself and Pip though he does his best to protest him in his own way.]]
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Pip and Joe, his sister's husband.
* JerkAss: Estella, Drummle, Miss Havisham, Pip's Sister, Pumblechook, sometimes Jaggers, and, once he becomes a gentleman, Pip.
* JerkAss: Estella, Drummle, Miss Havisham, Pip's Sister, Pumblechook, sometimes Jaggers, and, once he becomes a gentleman, Pip.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Pip and Joe, his older sister's husband.
* JerkAss: Estella, Drummle, Miss Havisham, Pip'sSister, sister, Pumblechook, sometimes Jaggers, and, once he becomes a gentleman, Pip.
* JerkAss: Estella, Drummle, Miss Havisham, Pip's
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* SpeechImpediment: The little Jewish boy who accosts Jaggers has a prominent lisp, and adds Hs in front of vowels at the beginnings of words. One of the Pockets children is too young to enunciate properly, despite being mature enough to make sure her idiot mother doesn't negligently let the baby hurt itself, and keep doing so even after she's been rebuked for her impertinence.
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* SpeechImpediment: The little Jewish boy who accosts Jaggers has a prominent lisp, and adds Hs in front of vowels at the beginnings of words. One of the Pockets Pockets' children is too young to enunciate properly, despite being mature enough to make sure her idiot mother doesn't negligently let the baby hurt itself, and keep doing so even after she's been rebuked for her impertinence.
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** As one of the {{Most Triumphant Example}}s of [[CharacterDevelopment personal growth]], it is no coincidence that the hero is a "pip" who has yet to flourish.
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** [[AStellarName Estella]] is as beautiful, remote and lonely as her name suggests.
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** [[AStellarName [[StellarName Estella]] is as beautiful, remote and lonely as her name suggests.
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* CharacterDevelopment: The book is one of the best examples of this trope, and spends a lot of time exploring and deconstructing it.
** [[AStellarName Estella]] is as beautiful, remote and lonely as her name suggests.
** Miss Havisham's (Have is sham) name foreshadows the deceptive nature of material wealth.
** As one of the {{Most Triumphant Example}}s of [[CharacterDevelopment personal growth]], it is no coincidence that the hero is a "pip" who has yet to flourish.
** Miss Havisham's (Have is sham) name foreshadows the deceptive nature of material wealth.
** As one of the {{Most Triumphant Example}}s of [[CharacterDevelopment personal growth]], it is no coincidence that the hero is a "pip" who has yet to flourish.
** Averted in another instance; upon discovering how warped Estella has become [[spoiler: Mr Jaggers]] acknowledges that it is very unfortunate that she ended up that way, but (quite rightly,) doesn't feel responsible for it, since he deliberately went out of his way to do the right thing based on the information he had at the time and had no way of knowing how it would turn out.
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* PurpleProse: Pip describes how beautiful Estella is pretty much every time she appears, which goes dangerously into Purple Prose territory.
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* PetTheDog: Despite cultivating the image of an AmoralAttorney, Jaggers' revelation of how he [[spoiler: deliberately prevented the infant Estella from growing up among the "spawn" that he sees go to the gallows on a daily basis]] shows that he does have a heart.
* PurpleProse: Pip describes how beautiful Estella is pretty much every time she appears, which goes dangerously into Purple Prose territory. Justified in that Pip was a child who had fallen in love, and since the story is told from his perspective it makes sense that he would think like this. It's also quite possible that Dickens [[InvokedTrope intended the descriptions to be somewhat silly]], considering how much emphasis the book places on Pip outgrowing his childishness.
* PurpleProse: Pip describes how beautiful Estella is pretty much every time she appears, which goes dangerously into Purple Prose territory. Justified in that Pip was a child who had fallen in love, and since the story is told from his perspective it makes sense that he would think like this. It's also quite possible that Dickens [[InvokedTrope intended the descriptions to be somewhat silly]], considering how much emphasis the book places on Pip outgrowing his childishness.
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''Great Expectations'' has been subject to many a film adaptation. The two most likely to have been viewed in a high school English class are the 1946 DavidLean one (generally regarded as the best) and the 1998 modern-day adaptation. There has also been a [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent Completely Different]] ''SouthPark'' ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parody. A 2012 adaptation will feature ''Film/HarryPotter'' veterans HelenaBonhamCarter, Ralph Fiennes, JessieCave, and Robbie Coltrane, as well as Jason Flemyng, David Walliams from ''LittleBritain'', and Ralph Ineson from ''TheOffice''.
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** To clarify, this is Dickens' slightly odd way of conveying a cockney/Essex accent - other characters with similar origins (e.g. Jo in "BleakHouse") are similarly prone to saying things like "he was wery good to me".
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* FastForwardToReunion: [[spoiler:The ending, where Pip and Estella meet again. The circumstances of their reunion depends on which version of the ending you read: there's one where Estella is happily married, and one where she isn't, implying that she and Pip may have a future together.]]
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* FastForwardToReunion: [[spoiler:The ending, where Pip and Estella meet again. The circumstances of their reunion depends on which version of the ending you read: there's one where Estella is happily married, and one where she isn't, implying that she and Pip may have a future together.]] (The former seems to be a rough draft which peters out without a definite conclusion, suggesting Dickens never even finished it.)]]
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* BigBad: The deceptive and equally cruel Compeyson. He ruins [[spoiler:Miss Havisham]] by pretending to love her, winning a lot of money from her (which was his [[EvilPlan goal]] the entire time) and then abandonding her before their supposed marriage, and he is also a dangerous criminal, but meets his ultimate doom when [[spoiler:Magwitch]] drowns him.
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* BigBad: The deceptive and equally cruel Compeyson. He ruins [[spoiler:Miss Havisham]] by pretending to love her, winning inheriting a lot of money from her (which was his [[EvilPlan goal]] the entire time) and then abandonding her before their supposed marriage, marriage and he running away with the money. He is also a dangerous criminal, but meets his ultimate doom when [[spoiler:Magwitch]] drowns him.
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''Great Expectations'' is one of Creator/CharlesDickens' most famous works (along with ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', ''Literature/OliverTwist'' and ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities''), as the multitude of high school students [[SchoolStudyMedia assigned]] this 300+ [[DoorStopper 450+ page book book]] will attest. Ironically, it is his most unconventional work; Dickens [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] many of his trademark plots and characters in it, including the MysteriousBenefactor and RagsToRiches tale. The main character Pip is also far from the simple-minded innocents of ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'' and ''Oliver Twist'' and arguably has undergone the most CharacterDevelopment as a result.
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* Irony: [[spoiler: Joe's mother was abused when he was younger and because of that he fears he will put his own wife (Pip's sister) through the same thing so he is rather passive towards her with the irony being that he is now the abused one and puts up with his wife's abuse of himself and Pip though he does his best to protest him in his own way.]]
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* Irony: {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Joe's mother was abused when he was younger and because of that he fears he will put his own wife (Pip's sister) through the same thing so he is rather passive towards her with the irony being that he is now the abused one and puts up with his wife's abuse of himself and Pip though he does his best to protest him in his own way.]]
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* HenpeckedHusband: Joe. He's quite content with life, though, and never lets his wife's tember get to him.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Joe. He's quite content with life, though, and never lets his wife's tember temper get to him.him. [[spoiler: Joe's traumatic childhood meant he and his mother were frequently abused and when he grew up, because of that, he would never raise his hand to a woman.]]
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Pip's infatuation with Estella. Because of her, he wants to be richer and have a better social status, [[WhatTheHellHero causing him to become ashamed of his perfectly respectable origins]], become ungrateful to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his hard-working older sister who raised him]] (even if she was a bit of a bitch), and try to "improve" [[GoodIsDumb Joe]], [[NiceGuy the nicest character in the book]], so that he can meet Estella's standards.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Pip's infatuation with Estella. Because of her, he wants to be richer and have a better social status, [[WhatTheHellHero causing him to become ashamed of his perfectly respectable origins]], become ungrateful to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his hard-working older sister who raised him]] him (even if she was a bit of a bitch), and try to "improve" [[GoodIsDumb Joe]], [[NiceGuy the nicest character in the book]], so that he can meet Estella's standards.
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* LondonTown: About two-thirds of the novel is set here. It's portrayed in a realistic "streets paved with excrement ''and'' gold" style.
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* Angst: A ''truckload'', mostly by Pip, as a result of Estella's actions.
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''Great Expectations'' is one of Creator/CharlesDickens' most famous works (along with ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', ''Literature/OliverTwist'' and ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities''), as the multitude of high school students [[SchoolStudyMedia assigned]] this 300+ page book will attest. Ironically, it is his most unconventional work; Dickens [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] many of his trademark plots and characters in it, including the MysteriousBenefactor and RagsToRiches tale. The main character Pip is also far from the simple-minded innocents of ''DavidCopperfield'' ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'' and ''Oliver Twist'' and arguably has undergone the most CharacterDevelopment as a result.
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* BritishAccents: All of the characters obviously have these, but many of the villagers replace their Vs with Ws.
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* VictorianBritain: Averted, surprisingly. Early on, it's established that the novel is set in the reign of George III (and possibly George IV, later on), likely during the early nineteenth century. The first quarter or so of the novel could even be set in the late ''eighteenth'' century, though it's unclear.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: When Pip and Hebert first met they get into a fistfight of which Pip emerges victorious.
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* HenpeckedHusband: Joe. He's quite content with life, though, and never lets his wife's tember get to him.
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''Great Expectations'' is one of Creator/CharlesDickens' most famous works (along with ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', ''Literature/OliverTwist'' and ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities''), as the multitude of high school students [[SchoolStudyMedia assigned]] this 300+ page book will attest. Ironically, it is his most unconventional work; Dickens [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] many of his trademark plots and characters in it, including the MysteriousBenefactor and RagsToRiches tale. The main character Pip is also far from the simple-minded innocents of ''DavidCopperfield'' and ''Oliver Twist'' and arguably has undergone the most CharacterDevelopment as a result.
Pip starts the book as a [[TheMessiah guileless]] orphan who lives [[AbusiveParents under the thumb]] of his shrewish older sister Mrs. Joe, only marginally mollified by her simple-minded but good-hearted husband Joe. His most eventful incident in his childhood is helping a convict on the marshes escape. But after being invited to play at the home of Miss Havisham, an eccentric spinster who's never recovered from being jilted at the altar long ago, and meeting her beautiful but haughty ward [[StellarName Estella]] there, Pip's mindset changes and he begins to resent his simplistic upbringing and the middling blacksmith career and life that seem inevitable for him.
Then, out of nowhere, [[MysteriousBenefactor Mr. Jaggers]] shows up at Pip's doorstep and tells his stunned family that he has "[[TitleDrop great expectations]]" bestowed upon him by a mysterious benefactor. Pip will spend the next couple of years training to become a proper gentleman. His benefactor's identity is a secret, but Pip is convinced that it is Miss Havisham. He meets the upper-class members of London society including friendly Herbert and loathsome Drummel, forgets about his old life, and courts Estella with limited success. But it is not until Pip finally discovers who his benefactor is that the plot really begins to thicken and Pip is forced to mature by confronting a variety of surprises, disappointments, and unexpected revelations.
''Great Expectations'' has been subject to many a film adaptation. The two most likely to have been viewed in a high school English class are the 1946 DavidLean one (generally regarded as the best) and the 1998 modern-day adaptation. There has also been a [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent Completely Different]] ''SouthPark'' parody. A 2012 adaptation will feature ''Film/HarryPotter'' veterans HelenaBonhamCarter, RalphFiennes, JessieCave, and Robbie Coltrane, as well as Jason Flemyng, David Walliams from ''LittleBritain'', and Ralph Ineson from ''TheOffice''.
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* AbusiveParents: Or, rather, abusive elder sister.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited
* AloneWithThePsycho: Pip discovers his sister's attacker the hard way.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Wemmick's house in London, made out like a medieval castle, may seem like a bit of Dickens' whimsy, but in fact this was a common trend for victorian businessmen and the only unusual element is that Wemmick has done the work himself.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Pip's infatuation with Estella. Because of her, he wants to be richer and have a better social status, [[WhatTheHellHero causing him to become ashamed of his perfectly respectable origins]], become ungrateful to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his hard-working older sister who raised him]] (even if she was a bit of a bitch), and try to "improve" [[GoodIsDumb Joe]], [[NiceGuy the nicest character in the book]], so that he can meet Estella's standards.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Pip to Estella. It has no effect on Estella, but does bring on Miss Havisham's one of the most literal and redundant cases ever of WhatHaveIDone ("and again, ten, twenty, fifty times, what had she done?").
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Magwitch spends years trying to enrich Pip because Pip delivered food to him when he was on the run and starving.]]
* BigBad: The deceptive and equally cruel Compeyson. He ruins [[spoiler:Miss Havisham]] by pretending to love her, winning a lot of money from her (which was his [[EvilPlan goal]] the entire time) and then abandonding her before their supposed marriage, and he is also a dangerous criminal, but meets his ultimate doom when [[spoiler:Magwitch]] drowns him.
* BigDamnHeroes: Herbert, Startop, and even Trabb's boy come to Pip's rescue in the last act.
* BigFancyHouse: Subverted. Satis House ''used'' to be one of these.
* BookDumb: Joe Gargery.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Compeyson]] did this to Miss Havisham, who does the same with Estella.
* BreakTheHaughty: Both Pip and Estella.
* BrokenBird: Estella, either when she lashes out at Miss Havisham or by the ending, when she's had to live with an abusive husband.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Wemmick is the no-nonsense assistant of Jaggers who spends time with his father ("The Aged Parent") at a whimsical, out-of-the-way cottage in his spare time.
* ChangelingFantasy: Subverted -- Pip gains a mysterious, wealthy benefactor and believes that it is Miss Havisham's plan to pair him up with Estella, the woman he loves, but it turns out that [[spoiler:his actual benefactor is the escaped convict he helped at the beginning of the story -- Miss Havisham had nothing to do with it.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The escaped convict.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Dickens is famous for having a disproportionate number of characters find out that they're related to each other or met previously, and ''Great Expectations'' is no exception: Pip meets the convict more than once, Jaggers serves as the lawyer of at least three key characters, both of the escaped convicts turn out to be entwined in the other character's stories, and Estella's parents are both sprinkled throughout the cast.
* DeletedScene: Modern printings of the novel usually include the original ending as an appendix.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted with [[BigBad Compeyson]], who meets his end when he falls into a river and drowns [[spoiler:after Magwitch attacks him]].
* DoesNotLikeMen: The greatest understatement of all time concerning this trope and Miss Havisham.
* EmotionlessGirl: Estella states at more than one point that she has no heart and has never been taught how to love.
* ExtremelyDustyHome
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Magwitch.]]
* FemmeFatale: Estella was bred to become this by Miss Havisham.
* {{Foil}}: Joe and Orlick, Biddy and Estella
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pip has brief visions of Miss Havisham's death.
* GenreBusting
* GoneHorriblyRight: Ms. Havisham's attempt to make Estella devoid of all natural feeling. She succeeds.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: The scenes detailing Pip's childhood (being "brought up by hand" by his volatile sister) are treated comically in his narration, probably because he's laughing at it all in retrospect.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Subverted--Pip learns to resign himself to being, at best, a mildly successful businessman.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Even after he learns he was never meant for Estella, Pip still begs her to reject the abusive Drummle and marry someone who will be kind to her.]]
* IWouldSayIfICouldSay: Jaggers is fond of this.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Pip and Joe, his sister's husband.
* JerkAss: Estella, Drummle, Miss Havisham, Pip's Sister, Pumblechook, sometimes Jaggers, and, once he becomes a gentleman, Pip.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jaggers is unpleasant to be around and is certainly a grey-morality type of guy, but reveals HiddenDepths by the end.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[spoiler: Orlick confesses to attacking Mrs. Joe and spying on Pip.]]
* LawOfInverseFertility: The Pockets have been producing children at a rate that far outstrips Mr. Pocket's desire for them (or, for that matter, Mrs. Pocket's interest in them).
* LonelyAtTheTop: Pip becomes a wealthy gentleman, abandoning his poor but decent friends back home and becoming as shallow as the [[RichBitch Rich Bitches]] he's surrounded with to do so. And he doesn't even get the girl. (He only gets her in the revised ending when he switches from his extravagant life to a more frugal one.)
** That switch back to his roots was part of the story already. Only the very ending was changed at the last minute.
* LoveMakesYouEvil. Not so with anyone but Miss Havisham, so maybe it's more of a FreudianExcuse for her madness and obsessiveness.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Magwitch, a convict on the run, is revealed to be not just Estella's father, but also Pip's mysterious benefactor.]]
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Miss Havisham's death.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Joe and Biddy marry, long after the death of Mrs. Joe.]]
* MaybeEverAfter: In the revised ending, not the original.
* MeaningfulName: Satis (Enough) House.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Miss Havisham's lament when she realizes how she's warped Estella's ability to feel.
* MysteriousBenefactor: One of the most well known cases in literature.
* ObliviousToLove: Right at the start, though he realises it later. For goodness' sake, Pip, she's ''right there''!
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: [[spoiler:Not only is Magwitch Estella's father, Compeyson, who was on the run with Magwitch, was Miss Havisham's former lover.]]
* PurpleProse: Pip describes how beautiful Estella is pretty much every time she appears, which goes dangerously into Purple Prose territory.
* PutOnABus: After Pip is apprenticed to Joe, Estella goes off to study abroad.
* RagsToRiches
* [[RunawayBride Runaway Groom]]: Her fiance dumped Miss Havisham at the altar, as she was dressing for the ceremony.
* RevisedEnding: To avoid the book having a [[BitterSweetEnding Bitter Sweet]] / DownerEnding. Dickens' friend and colleague Edward Bulwer-Lytton, after getting a sneak preview of the original ending, suggested an ending that wasn't so downbeat. Dickens himself seemed [[http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/dickens/ending.html content with the result]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Magwitch's illegal return from Australia, which prompts Pip to have a ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules epiphany.
* SettingUpdate: The 1998 movie.
* StoppedClock: Miss Havisham has all the clocks in her house stopped at twenty minutes to nine -- the moment she learned she had been jilted on her wedding day.
* TitleDrop: When Jaggers informs Pip of his MysteriousBenefactor.
---> '''Jaggers''': The communication I have got to make is, that he has ''great expectations''.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Pip, due to his exposure to [[EvilOldFolks Miss Havisham]] and [[RichBitch Estella]].
* TwiceToldTale: Peter Carey's ''Jack Maggs'' (which also qualifies as a StartOfDarkness).
* UnexpectedInheritance
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Biddy
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''Great Expectations'' is one of Creator/CharlesDickens' most famous works (along with ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', ''Literature/OliverTwist'' and ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities''), as the multitude of high school students [[SchoolStudyMedia assigned]] this 300+ page book will attest. Ironically, it is his most unconventional work; Dickens [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] many of his trademark plots and characters in it, including the MysteriousBenefactor and RagsToRiches tale. The main character Pip is also far from the simple-minded innocents of ''DavidCopperfield'' and ''Oliver Twist'' and arguably has undergone the most CharacterDevelopment as a result.
Pip starts the book as a [[TheMessiah guileless]] orphan who lives [[AbusiveParents under the thumb]] of his shrewish older sister Mrs. Joe, only marginally mollified by her simple-minded but good-hearted husband Joe. His most eventful incident in his childhood is helping a convict on the marshes escape. But after being invited to play at the home of Miss Havisham, an eccentric spinster who's never recovered from being jilted at the altar long ago, and meeting her beautiful but haughty ward [[StellarName Estella]] there, Pip's mindset changes and he begins to resent his simplistic upbringing and the middling blacksmith career and life that seem inevitable for him.
Then, out of nowhere, [[MysteriousBenefactor Mr. Jaggers]] shows up at Pip's doorstep and tells his stunned family that he has "[[TitleDrop great expectations]]" bestowed upon him by a mysterious benefactor. Pip will spend the next couple of years training to become a proper gentleman. His benefactor's identity is a secret, but Pip is convinced that it is Miss Havisham. He meets the upper-class members of London society including friendly Herbert and loathsome Drummel, forgets about his old life, and courts Estella with limited success. But it is not until Pip finally discovers who his benefactor is that the plot really begins to thicken and Pip is forced to mature by confronting a variety of surprises, disappointments, and unexpected revelations.
''Great Expectations'' has been subject to many a film adaptation. The two most likely to have been viewed in a high school English class are the 1946 DavidLean one (generally regarded as the best) and the 1998 modern-day adaptation. There has also been a [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent Completely Different]] ''SouthPark'' parody. A 2012 adaptation will feature ''Film/HarryPotter'' veterans HelenaBonhamCarter, RalphFiennes, JessieCave, and Robbie Coltrane, as well as Jason Flemyng, David Walliams from ''LittleBritain'', and Ralph Ineson from ''TheOffice''.
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!!!'''Tropes:'''
* AbusiveParents: Or, rather, abusive elder sister.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited
* AloneWithThePsycho: Pip discovers his sister's attacker the hard way.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: Wemmick's house in London, made out like a medieval castle, may seem like a bit of Dickens' whimsy, but in fact this was a common trend for victorian businessmen and the only unusual element is that Wemmick has done the work himself.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Pip's infatuation with Estella. Because of her, he wants to be richer and have a better social status, [[WhatTheHellHero causing him to become ashamed of his perfectly respectable origins]], become ungrateful to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his hard-working older sister who raised him]] (even if she was a bit of a bitch), and try to "improve" [[GoodIsDumb Joe]], [[NiceGuy the nicest character in the book]], so that he can meet Estella's standards.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Pip to Estella. It has no effect on Estella, but does bring on Miss Havisham's one of the most literal and redundant cases ever of WhatHaveIDone ("and again, ten, twenty, fifty times, what had she done?").
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Magwitch spends years trying to enrich Pip because Pip delivered food to him when he was on the run and starving.]]
* BigBad: The deceptive and equally cruel Compeyson. He ruins [[spoiler:Miss Havisham]] by pretending to love her, winning a lot of money from her (which was his [[EvilPlan goal]] the entire time) and then abandonding her before their supposed marriage, and he is also a dangerous criminal, but meets his ultimate doom when [[spoiler:Magwitch]] drowns him.
* BigDamnHeroes: Herbert, Startop, and even Trabb's boy come to Pip's rescue in the last act.
* BigFancyHouse: Subverted. Satis House ''used'' to be one of these.
* BookDumb: Joe Gargery.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Compeyson]] did this to Miss Havisham, who does the same with Estella.
* BreakTheHaughty: Both Pip and Estella.
* BrokenBird: Estella, either when she lashes out at Miss Havisham or by the ending, when she's had to live with an abusive husband.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Wemmick is the no-nonsense assistant of Jaggers who spends time with his father ("The Aged Parent") at a whimsical, out-of-the-way cottage in his spare time.
* ChangelingFantasy: Subverted -- Pip gains a mysterious, wealthy benefactor and believes that it is Miss Havisham's plan to pair him up with Estella, the woman he loves, but it turns out that [[spoiler:his actual benefactor is the escaped convict he helped at the beginning of the story -- Miss Havisham had nothing to do with it.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The escaped convict.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Dickens is famous for having a disproportionate number of characters find out that they're related to each other or met previously, and ''Great Expectations'' is no exception: Pip meets the convict more than once, Jaggers serves as the lawyer of at least three key characters, both of the escaped convicts turn out to be entwined in the other character's stories, and Estella's parents are both sprinkled throughout the cast.
* DeletedScene: Modern printings of the novel usually include the original ending as an appendix.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted with [[BigBad Compeyson]], who meets his end when he falls into a river and drowns [[spoiler:after Magwitch attacks him]].
* DoesNotLikeMen: The greatest understatement of all time concerning this trope and Miss Havisham.
* EmotionlessGirl: Estella states at more than one point that she has no heart and has never been taught how to love.
* ExtremelyDustyHome
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Magwitch.]]
* FemmeFatale: Estella was bred to become this by Miss Havisham.
* {{Foil}}: Joe and Orlick, Biddy and Estella
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pip has brief visions of Miss Havisham's death.
* GenreBusting
* GoneHorriblyRight: Ms. Havisham's attempt to make Estella devoid of all natural feeling. She succeeds.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: The scenes detailing Pip's childhood (being "brought up by hand" by his volatile sister) are treated comically in his narration, probably because he's laughing at it all in retrospect.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Subverted--Pip learns to resign himself to being, at best, a mildly successful businessman.
* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Even after he learns he was never meant for Estella, Pip still begs her to reject the abusive Drummle and marry someone who will be kind to her.]]
* IWouldSayIfICouldSay: Jaggers is fond of this.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Pip and Joe, his sister's husband.
* JerkAss: Estella, Drummle, Miss Havisham, Pip's Sister, Pumblechook, sometimes Jaggers, and, once he becomes a gentleman, Pip.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jaggers is unpleasant to be around and is certainly a grey-morality type of guy, but reveals HiddenDepths by the end.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe: [[spoiler: Orlick confesses to attacking Mrs. Joe and spying on Pip.]]
* LawOfInverseFertility: The Pockets have been producing children at a rate that far outstrips Mr. Pocket's desire for them (or, for that matter, Mrs. Pocket's interest in them).
* LonelyAtTheTop: Pip becomes a wealthy gentleman, abandoning his poor but decent friends back home and becoming as shallow as the [[RichBitch Rich Bitches]] he's surrounded with to do so. And he doesn't even get the girl. (He only gets her in the revised ending when he switches from his extravagant life to a more frugal one.)
** That switch back to his roots was part of the story already. Only the very ending was changed at the last minute.
* LoveMakesYouEvil. Not so with anyone but Miss Havisham, so maybe it's more of a FreudianExcuse for her madness and obsessiveness.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Magwitch, a convict on the run, is revealed to be not just Estella's father, but also Pip's mysterious benefactor.]]
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Miss Havisham's death.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Joe and Biddy marry, long after the death of Mrs. Joe.]]
* MaybeEverAfter: In the revised ending, not the original.
* MeaningfulName: Satis (Enough) House.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Miss Havisham's lament when she realizes how she's warped Estella's ability to feel.
* MysteriousBenefactor: One of the most well known cases in literature.
* ObliviousToLove: Right at the start, though he realises it later. For goodness' sake, Pip, she's ''right there''!
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: [[spoiler:Not only is Magwitch Estella's father, Compeyson, who was on the run with Magwitch, was Miss Havisham's former lover.]]
* PurpleProse: Pip describes how beautiful Estella is pretty much every time she appears, which goes dangerously into Purple Prose territory.
* PutOnABus: After Pip is apprenticed to Joe, Estella goes off to study abroad.
* RagsToRiches
* [[RunawayBride Runaway Groom]]: Her fiance dumped Miss Havisham at the altar, as she was dressing for the ceremony.
* RevisedEnding: To avoid the book having a [[BitterSweetEnding Bitter Sweet]] / DownerEnding. Dickens' friend and colleague Edward Bulwer-Lytton, after getting a sneak preview of the original ending, suggested an ending that wasn't so downbeat. Dickens himself seemed [[http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/dickens/ending.html content with the result]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Magwitch's illegal return from Australia, which prompts Pip to have a ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules epiphany.
* SettingUpdate: The 1998 movie.
* StoppedClock: Miss Havisham has all the clocks in her house stopped at twenty minutes to nine -- the moment she learned she had been jilted on her wedding day.
* TitleDrop: When Jaggers informs Pip of his MysteriousBenefactor.
---> '''Jaggers''': The communication I have got to make is, that he has ''great expectations''.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Pip, due to his exposure to [[EvilOldFolks Miss Havisham]] and [[RichBitch Estella]].
* TwiceToldTale: Peter Carey's ''Jack Maggs'' (which also qualifies as a StartOfDarkness).
* UnexpectedInheritance
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Biddy
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