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* TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier: In the 1998 movie, after spending a night with Pip, Estella tells him in French "Je vais aller en France demain" ("I have to go to France tomorrow"), assuming he wouldn't understand. He doesn't, and is really surprised the next day when he finds out that she left him.
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** Wemmick's father, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname who is referred to as "the Aged" by everyone, even his own son.]]
** Pip's sister is only referred to as "Mrs. Joe" (even by her brother and husband) or "my sister" till near the end of the book, when Pumblechook states she “was Georgiana M'ria from her own mother."
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* OnlyOneName: Pip is raised by his sister and her husband Joe, but the sister's given name is never mentioned. She is referred to only as "Mrs. Joe". Her name is mentioned once late in the book. It's Georgiana M'ria (Maria, presumably.)
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* HateSink: From the narration and flashbacks we are given, we learn that Compeyson's an absolutely cruel crook who regularly kicks his wife around, proposed to marry Miss Havisham just to emotionally ruin her and run off with her money, felt relief at his partner-in-crime Arthur dying of shame and over-drinking and pinned it all on poor Hagmitch, whom he had forced under his thumb in the first place, condemning him to fourteen years in jail while he got off easy. In the two scenes he appears in, he proves to be nothing but a spineless coward whose ultimate demise is something satisfying indeed.
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* HateSink: From the narration and flashbacks we are given, we learn that Compeyson's an absolutely cruel crook who regularly kicks his wife around, proposed to marry Miss Havisham just to emotionally ruin her and run off with her money, felt relief at his partner-in-crime Arthur dying of shame and over-drinking and pinned it all on poor Hagmitch, Magwitch, whom he had forced under his thumb in the first place, condemning him to fourteen years in jail while he got off easy. In the two scenes he appears in, he proves to be nothing but a spineless coward whose ultimate demise is something satisfying indeed.
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* CharacterShilling: In-universe, Miss Haversham constantly describes Estella's beauty and allure to Pip.
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* HateSink: From the narration and flashbacks we are given, we learn that Compeyson's an absolutely cruel crook who regularly kicks his wife around, proposed to marry Miss Havisham just to emotionally ruin her and run off with her money, felt relief at his partner-in-crime Arthur dying of shame and over-drinking and pinned it all on poor Hagmitch, whom he had forced under his thumb in the first place, condemning him to fourteen years in jail while he got off easy. In the two scenes he appears in, he proves to be nothing but a spineless coward whose ultimate demise is something satisfying indeed.
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* RedHerring: Miss Havisham is constantly built up as Pip's mysterious benefactor, with large paragraphs devoted entirely to Pip revolving her possible motives and hidden mind games, until the end of the second volume, where it turns out to have been Abel Magwitch.
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* BrokenAesop: A point of contention against the RevisedEnding: a major point of Pip's CharacterDevelopment is learning he was never [[EntitledToHaveYou meant for Estella]] and that she is not the person he has [[LovingAShadow idealized her to be.]] This is undermined by having ''fate'' bring her back to him at Satis House, having just conveniently TookALevelInKindness and ready to love him.
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* BrokenAesop: A point of contention against the RevisedEnding: a major point of Pip's CharacterDevelopment is learning he was never [[EntitledToHaveYou meant for Estella]] and that she is not the person he has [[LovingAShadow idealized her to be.]] This is undermined by having ''fate'' bring her back to him at Satis House, having just conveniently TookALevelInKindness [[TookALevelInKindness Taken a Level in Kindness]] and ready to love him.
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* CentralTheme: The title's "Expectations" refers to "a legacy to come" and thus immediately announces that money, or more specifically wealth plays an important part in the novel. Some other major themes are crime, social class, including both gentility, and social alienation, imperialism and ambition. The novel is also concerned with questions relating to conscience and moral regeneration, as well as redemption through love.
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* GenreMashup: The book contains a variety of literary genres, including the bildungsroman, gothic novel, crime novel, as well as comedy, melodrama and satire; and it belongs—like Wuthering Heights and the novels of Walter Scott—to the romance rather than realist tradition of the novel.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: This trope pretty much defines Ms. Havisham's existence. Pip is unable to have Estella and Biddy cannot attract Pip. Perhaps the only aversion of this trope is when Biddy and Joe fall in love.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: This trope pretty much defines Ms. Havisham's existence. Pip is unable has unrequited feelings on Estella, who was raised by Miss Havisham to have be an unfeeling IceQueen who breaks boys' hearts. When so many men fall in love with her, Estella elects to marry the absolute worst of all her suitors, just to spite and Biddy cannot attract Pip. Perhaps hurt the others (including Pip). She suffers in an abusive marriage for years. Pip, after realizing his feelings for his childhood friend Biddy, tries to start a relationship with her, only aversion of this trope is when Biddy and Joe fall to learn that she was already in love.relationship with Joe.
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* 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.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Wemmick's has turned his house in London, made out like into a medieval castle, miniature castle complete with moat and drawbridge. To modern readers this may seem eccentric, but this was actually quite common for wealthy Victorians. Then again, it may also 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.act of a rich idiot who wants to impress other rich idiots
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* BalconyWooingScene: In one of the movies, Ethan Hawke yells "Everything I have ever does has been for you!" from the street-level. The receiving Estella is aloof to his affection.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Herbert tells Pip about his fiance's elderly father. When Pip asks, "What does he live on?" Herbert replies, "The first floor." Pip was actually inquiring after the source of his income.
* GenreDeconstruction: The novel is a rare case of a writer deconstructing all of his previous work. All the normal tropes of Dickens novels (the ChangelingFantasy, saintly dying women, mysterious benefactors, long-lost relatives, etc.) happen like clockwork. Then these tropes are revealed to be a malevolent lie created to manipulate the hero - who has been so morally ruined that he's more like an AntiHero.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Miss Havisham's plan to make Estella into a cold, emotionless IceQueen works so well that she can't seem to love anyone...even Miss Havisham herself, who has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when she realizes this.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Miss Havisham's plan to make Estella into a cold, emotionless IceQueen works so well that she can't seem to love anyone...even is raised by Miss Havisham herself, to be the perfect seductress from the time she's young as part of a revenge-by-proxy against all men. By the time she's an adult she is indeed the perfect seductress: a beautiful ManipulativeBitch who has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when she realizes this."has no heart" and can't feel or give love either to good guy Pip or Miss Havisham.
* HappilyMarried: Joe and Biddy find true happiness with each other when Pip turns his back on both of them for different reasons (Joe because he reminds him of the humble origins he wants to rise above, Biddy because she is not Estella), and by the book's final chapter they have two children together (one named for Pip) for whom they are both adoring parents.
* HypocriticalHumor: Pip attends a very bad amateur production of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. At the point where the actor playing Hamlet speaks the line "Don't saw the air thus", a heckler points out that the actor is doing exactly the same thing.
* MissingMom: Pip lost his mother and was left to be raised by his older sister and her husband.
* TheMourningAfter: Miss Havisham became a hermit in her own home after being betrayed and jilted by Compeyson, remaining dressed in her wedding dress with the clocks stopped at the time she was betrayed, and the rotten wedding feast in place.
* TheMourningAfter: Miss Havisham became a hermit in her own home after being betrayed and jilted by Compeyson, remaining dressed in her wedding dress with the clocks stopped at the time she was betrayed, and the rotten wedding feast in place.
* OneSteveLimit: There is Georgiana, as in Pip's mother who he calls "Also Georgiana" early on, and a different Georgiana in the Pocket family. Of course, neither of them have much of an important role, so it's easily overlooked.
* ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta: Pip believes his sudden endowment to be from Miss Havisham to groom him into a proper husband for her ward, Estella. He's quite shocked to find otherwise. PlayedWith because he knows for a fact that he does have an anonymous benefactor, it's just his guess is incorrect; it's actually the convict he helped at the beginning of the book.
* PromotionToParent: Pip was brought up by his (much older) sister and her husband after their parents died.
* TheReveal: The story is pretty straightforward, up until you get to the end of Part II, in which Pip's benefactor turns out to be none other than Abel Magwitch, the convict he helped early in the first chapter, who just so happens to be a very rich felon. From there, almost every chapter in the book contains its own plot twist (which makes sense, as the book was orignally released as a serial).
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* RunawayBride: Male version. Her fiancé dumped Miss Havisham at the altar, as she was dressing for the ceremony.
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* RunawayBride: Male version. Her fiancé dumped RunawayGroom: Easily the most famous case of this is Miss Havisham's runaway groom Compeyson. He only got close to her to defraud her of her money and once he completed this, he sent her a letter informing her of the truth just short of the wedding and then beat town. Miss Havisham at the altar, as she was dressing goes crazy and hates men for the ceremony.rest of her life.
* SelfMadeMan: The benefactor is a ringing example. From escaped convict to Wealthy Australian.
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* TheShutIn: Miss Havisham, who has spent the rest of her life in one room since she was jilted on her wedding day.
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* ShrineToSelf: Miss Havisham's decaying mansion. All the clocks are stopped at the moment that her would-be groom betrayed her, she still wears her wedding dress as a grim reminder, and the dining room table remains set with the rotten wedding feast and cake. She proposes to have her body laid out there when she dies.
* TheShutIn: MissHavisham, who has Havisham was jilted on her wedding day and spent the rest of her life shut up in one room since she was jilted on her mansion, still wearing her wedding day.dress, as the house decays around her.
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* SocialClimber: One reason why the book is regarded as highly mature is that Dickens finally critiques his use of the trope in showing the social-climbing hero Pip to be a bit of a snob in his yearning for social respectability, only to discover that the Mysterious Backer of his rise up the social ladder was not the rich Mrs. Haversham as he had assumed but the poor convict Magwitch. This starts his Character Development.
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* UnexpectedInheritance: Pip seems fated to be a blacksmith, when all of a sudden a large sum of money comes his way out of absolutely nowhere.
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* {{Tykebomb}}: Miss Havisham was left at the altar and swore revenge against all men, so she adopted a baby girl named Estella and raised her to be a sociopathic heart-breaker.
* UnexpectedInheritance: Pipseems fated to be a blacksmith, when all of a sudden a large sum of money comes his way receives inheritance completely out of absolutely nowhere.left field, becomes rich and arrogant, finds out who his benefactor is, squanders money, gets the girl (it is implied at least), and becomes less arrogant.
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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: When Miss Havisham entreats Estella for her love and affection in return for hers, Estella coolly replies that she cannot give her back what she has never been given.
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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: The beautiful but icy Estella claims to Pip that she has no heart, implicitly as a result of Miss Havisham's raising of her as a breaker of men's hearts. When Miss Havisham entreats Estella for her love and affection in return for hers, Estella she coolly replies that she cannot give her back what she has never been given.given. She is later defrosted by Pip, if you follow the revised ending or movie adaptations.
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* BalconyWooingScene: In one of the movies, Ethan Hawke yells "Everything I have ever does has been for you!" from the street-level. The receiving Estella is aloof to his affection.
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* MysteriousBenefactor: One of the most well known cases in literature. An unknown person for unknown reasons suddenly bestows on Pip a large sum of money, and a place in London where he can learn to be a gentleman.
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* MysteriousBenefactor: One of the most well known cases in literature. An unknown person for unknown reasons suddenly bestows on Pip a large sum of money, and a place in London where he can learn to be a gentleman.
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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.
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* CharacterDevelopment: The book is one of the best examples of this trope, Pip starts out as a naive boy, turns into a social-climbing snob while he's in London, and spends a lot of time exploring finally goes home humbler and deconstructing it.wiser.
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* MaybeEverAfter: The (revised) ending suggests that Pip and Estella shall never part. The TropeMaker. Possibly one of the most famous examples of this trope in English-language media.
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* MaybeEverAfter: The (revised) ending suggests that Pip and Estella shall never part. The TropeMaker. Possibly one of the most famous examples of this trope in English-language media.
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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: When Pip becomes a gentleman he also becomes a snob and distances himself from Joe; he ignores Joe's letters unless they mention Estella, and he thinks Joe makes an absolute disaster of himself in London. He doesn't reconcile with Joe and Biddy until he loses the money.
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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: When Pip becomes a gentleman he also becomes a snob and distances himself from Joe; he ignores Joe's letters unless they mention Estella, and he thinks Joe makes an absolute disaster of himself in London. He doesn't reconcile with Joe and Biddy until he loses the money.
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* AgeAppropriateRomance: The book comments specifically on this in its opening chapters as Pip deals with the burden of living as a largely ignored and undervalued orphan:
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* AgeAppropriateRomance: AgeAppropriateAngst: The book comments specifically on this in its opening chapters as Pip deals with the burden of living as a largely ignored and undervalued orphan:
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* AbusiveParents:
** Pip's older sister is his guardian and verbally and physically thrashes him.
** Joe recalls how his father would "hammer" his mother and him, and when they tried to flee, he united their neighbors to shame them into coming home where he would hammer them again.
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** Joe recalls how his father would "hammer" his mother and him, and when they tried to flee, he united their neighbors to shame them into coming home where he would hammer them again.
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** Pip's older sister isAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Pip ignores Biddy's obvious love for him as he fruitlessly pursues Estella. After he realizes the error of his guardian and verbally and physically thrashes him.
**life choices, he returns to claim Biddy as his bride, only to find out she has married Joe instead.
* AbusiveParents: Joe recalls how his father would "hammer" his mother and him, and when they tried to flee, he united their neighbors to shame them into coming home where he would hammer themagain.again.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: When Pip becomes a gentleman he also becomes a snob and distances himself from Joe; he ignores Joe's letters unless they mention Estella, and he thinks Joe makes an absolute disaster of himself in London. He doesn't reconcile with Joe and Biddy until he loses the money.
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* AbusiveParents: Joe recalls how his father would "hammer" his mother and him, and when they tried to flee, he united their neighbors to shame them into coming home where he would hammer them
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissim: When Pip becomes a gentleman he also becomes a snob and distances himself from Joe; he ignores Joe's letters unless they mention Estella, and he thinks Joe makes an absolute disaster of himself in London. He doesn't reconcile with Joe and Biddy until he loses the money.
* AgeAppropriateRomance: The book comments specifically on this in its opening chapters as Pip deals with the burden of living as a largely ignored and undervalued orphan:
-->In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and finely felt as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.
-->In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and finely felt as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.
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* AlmostDeadGuy: The old convict. Pip visits him for a last time to tell him about his daughter upon which the old man passes on peacefully. In the 1946 adaptation his head nods melodramatically to one side.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Pip discovers his sister's attacker the hard way.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Pip discovers his sister's attacker the hard way.
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* AlmostDeadGuy: The old convict.Magwitch. Pip visits him for a last time to tell him about his daughter upon which the old man passes on peacefully. In the 1946 adaptation his head nods melodramatically to one side.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Pipdiscovers his sister's attacker the hard way.is captured and imprisoned by violently insane Orlick.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Pip
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* 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?").
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* 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?").done?")
-->"Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. [...] You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, pad of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!"
* AnonymousBenefactor: Pip assumes that the wealthy, eccentric Miss Havisham, guardian of Estella, is his benefactor. To his dismay, he learns that it's really Abel Magwitch, the escaped convict who had intimidated him years ago into stealing food for him.
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-->"Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. [...] You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, pad of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!"
* AnonymousBenefactor: Pip assumes that the wealthy, eccentric Miss Havisham, guardian of Estella, is his benefactor. To his dismay, he learns that it's really Abel Magwitch, the escaped convict who had intimidated him years ago into stealing food for him.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Biddy spends so much time watching Pip that he pronounces her, "In theory ... as good a blacksmith as I was."
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Biddy spends so much time watching Pip that he pronounces her, "In theory ... theory...as good a blacksmith as I was."
* BastardGirlfriend: Estella is molded into becoming one by Miss Havisham.
* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional: John Wemmick is like this. At the office of Mr. Jaggers, he's a humorless, slightly unpleasant man who is devoted to the acquisition of 'portable property', while at home he is a joyful, caring, and generally amiable fellow who lived with his ancient father in a whimsical house built like a tiny castle. He's very insistent that his personal and professional lives don't cross.
* BigSisterBully: Pip's older sister is his guardian and verbally and physically thrashes him.
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* BoomerangBigot: A young and suggestible Pip becomes this turns on everything he considers "common" after meeting EstellaEstella disparages him for being common. This comes back to bite him.
* DiggingToChina: "Without remarking that man-traps were not among the amenities of life, I said I supposed he was very skilful? 'Deep,' said Wemmick, 'as Australia.' Pointing with his pen at the office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes of the figure, to be symmetrically on the opposite spot of the globe."
* EtherealWhiteDress: Miss Havisham is an old woman who always wears her white, tattered wedding dress, and she rarely leaves her room. Her character is utterly defined by her obsession with the man who left her at the altar, and she metaphorically died that day, becoming old, bitter, and refusing to grow.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: Pip confides in Herbert about his love for Estella, to which Herbert replies, "Exactly. Well?" When Pip asks him how he knew, Herbert exclaims, "Told me! You have never told me when you have got your hair cut, but I have had senses to perceive it. You have always adored her, ever since I have known you. You brought your adoration and your portmanteau here, together. Told me! Why, you have always told me all day long." Unlike most other examples on this page, Pip feels relieved instead of annoyed that his secret was known all along.
* EveryoneIsRelated: Estella turns out to be the child of two characters Pip has had random encounters with: Abel Magwitch and Molly. In addition, the man who left Mrs. Havisham at the altar turns out to be the second escaped criminal that Pip saw when he first met Magwitch.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: Pip confides in Herbert about his love for Estella, to which Herbert replies, "Exactly. Well?" When Pip asks him how he knew, Herbert exclaims, "Told me! You have never told me when you have got your hair cut, but I have had senses to perceive it. You have always adored her, ever since I have known you. You brought your adoration and your portmanteau here, together. Told me! Why, you have always told me all day long." Unlike most other examples on this page, Pip feels relieved instead of annoyed that his secret was known all along.
* EveryoneIsRelated: Estella turns out to be the child of two characters Pip has had random encounters with: Abel Magwitch and Molly. In addition, the man who left Mrs. Havisham at the altar turns out to be the second escaped criminal that Pip saw when he first met Magwitch.
* FunetikAksent: A minor Jewish character speaks with a lithp, which was considered a stereotypically Jewish trait at the time.
* GenreBusting: Anyone who calls this a romance is ''greatly'' oversimplifying matters. It has romance, drama, comedy, suspense, a bit of action, a bit of adventure, it's a rags to riches story and a coming of age story, a possible satire of this and that or even SelfParody, and it has strong elements of mystery and horror. Figure ''that'' out!
* GenreBusting: Anyone who calls this a romance is ''greatly'' oversimplifying matters. It has romance, drama, comedy, suspense, a bit of action, a bit of adventure, it's a rags to riches story and a coming of age story, a possible satire of this and that or even SelfParody, and it has strong elements of mystery and horror. Figure ''that'' out!
* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: Dickens altered the book after its original serial publication. Readers and fellow writers disagreed with what they saw as a DownerEnding where Pip DidNotGetTheGirl. So Dickens wrote a new ending, which hints MaybeEverAfter. Most reprints and publications use Dickens' changed ending and it often shows up in adaptations. The original ending is published separately.
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* GrandDame: Miss Havisham definitely qualifies; however, she is also completely insane, having deliberately frozen her life around the exact minute and day that her heart was broken. Astonishingly, she still receives the occasional visitor, and her upbringing of Estella certainly qualifies her for this trope.
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* IntentionalHeartbreaker: Estella Havisham is main character Pip's love interest, whom he thinks he's being groomed to wed because he's under the mistaken belief that her adopted mother, Miss Havisham, is his secret benefactor helping to advance him in society. In reality, Miss Havisham has been grooming Estella to be her weapon to take revenge on men in general by making them fall in love with her then breaking their hearts. Estella herself claims she has no real affections for anyone due to her training.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Pip and Joe, his older sister's husband.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Pip and Joe, his older sister's husband.
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* JerkAss: Estella, Drummle, Miss Havisham, Pip's sister, Pumblechook, sometimes Jaggers, and, once he becomes a gentleman, Pip himself.
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* JerkAss: IntentionalHeartbreaker: Estella Havisham is Pip's love interest, whom he thinks he's being groomed to wed because he's under the mistaken belief that her adopted mother, Miss Havisham, is his secret benefactor helping to advance him in society. In reality, Miss Havisham has been grooming Estella to be her weapon to take revenge on men in general by making them fall in love with her then breaking their hearts. Estella herself claims she has no real affections for anyone due to her training.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Pip and Joe, his older sister's husband.
* JacobMarleyWarning: Pip can become either Jaggers (the bad choice) or Herbert (the good choice).
* {{Jerkass}}: Estella, Drummle, Miss Havisham, Pip's sister, Pumblechook, sometimes Jaggers, and, once he becomes a gentleman, Pip himself.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Pip and Joe, his older sister's husband.
* JacobMarleyWarning: Pip can become either Jaggers (the bad choice) or Herbert (the good choice).
* {{Jerkass}}: Estella, Drummle, Miss Havisham, Pip's sister, Pumblechook, sometimes Jaggers, and, once he becomes a gentleman, Pip himself.
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* MeaningfulAppearance: Miss Havisham's backstory and refusal to move on are conveyed through the aged wedding dress she refuses to take off. She wears it in all of her scenes, which motivates Pippin to discover the circumstances behind her abandonment at the altar.
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: A character's repeated uses of the word "damn" are printed as "bless". It's unclear whether this is censored or whether it's what he's actually saying.
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* OnlyOneName: Pip is raised by his sister and her husband Joe, but the sister's given name is never mentioned. She is referred to only as "Mrs. Joe". Her name is mentioned once late in the book. It's Georgiana M'ria (Maria, presumably.)
* ParentheticalSwearing: One scene has Pip's sister say "Lord bless the boy!" in a way that makes it sound quite the opposite.
* ParentheticalSwearing: One scene has Pip's sister say "Lord bless the boy!" in a way that makes it sound quite the opposite.
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* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: Miss Havisham uses Pip as a proxy for the man who left her at the altar. Only at the point of death does she realize just how unfair she has been to both Pip and Estella. Not only age and gender but also social class factor into the power disparity: Havisham is a very wealthy dowager; Pip an orphan apprenticed to a blacksmith.
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* PrisonShip: Magwitch has escaped from a prison ship, and is transported to Australia on one.
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''Great Expectations'' has been subject to many a film adaptation. The one most likely to have been viewed in a high school English class is [[Film/GreatExpectations1946 the 1946 film]] directed by Creator/DavidLean. There also has been a 1974 MadeForTVMovie, a 1998 movie that is a modern day adaptation set in Miami, a 1999 miniseries, a 2011 miniseries, and a 2012 movie adaptation that features ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' veterans Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/JessieCave, and Robbie Coltrane, as well as Jeremy Irvine, Creator/JasonFlemyng, Creator/HollidayGrainger from ''Series/TheBorgias,'' David Walliams from ''Series/LittleBritain'', and Creator/RalphIneson from ''Series/TheOfficeUK''. There has also been a [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent Completely Different]] ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parody.
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''Great Expectations'' has been subject to many a film adaptation. The one most likely to have been viewed in a high school English class is [[Film/GreatExpectations1946 the 1946 film]] directed by Creator/DavidLean. There also has been a 1974 MadeForTVMovie, a 1998 movie that is a modern day adaptation set in Miami, a 1999 miniseries, a 2011 miniseries, and a 2012 movie adaptation that features ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' veterans Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/JessieCave, and Robbie Coltrane, Creator/RobbieColtrane, as well as Jeremy Irvine, Creator/JeremyIrvine, Creator/JasonFlemyng, Creator/HollidayGrainger from ''Series/TheBorgias,'' David Walliams from ''Series/LittleBritain'', Creator/HollidayGrainger, Creator/DavidWalliams and Creator/RalphIneson from ''Series/TheOfficeUK''.Creator/RalphIneson. There has also been a [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent Completely Different]] ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parody.
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* UnfamiliarCeiling: After the death of the old convict, Pip runs home and falls into his bed in a fever, only to discover on his waking that he is now at Joe's house.
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* WakingUpElsewhere: After the death of the old convict, Pip runs home and falls into his bed in a fever, only to discover on his waking that he is now at Joe's house.
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* Although he's less developed than the other two, Startop is a nice guy, who helps Pip in many ways.
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*NiceGirl: Biddy is a very sweet, gentle girl, basically the foil to Estella.
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** Joe Gargery is a GentleGiant, respected by everyone, and the only person to be genuinely kind to Pip during his childhood.
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** Joe Gargery is a GentleGiant, respected by everyone, and the only person (along with Biddy) to be genuinely kind to Pip during his childhood.
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* Although he's less developed than the other two, Startop is a nice guy, who helps Pip in many ways.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Although Miss Havisham has often been portrayed in film versions as very elderly, Dickens's own notes indicate that she is only in her mid-thirties at the start of the novel. However, it is indicated in the novel that her long life away from the sunlight has aged her.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Literature/DavidCopperfield''. They both trace the psychological and moral development of a young boy to maturity, his transition from a rural environment to the London metropolis, the vicissitudes of his emotional development, and the exhibition of his hopes and youthful dreams and their metamorphosis, through a rich and complex first person narrative. Dickens was conscious of this similarity and, before undertaking his new manuscript, reread ''David Copperfield'' to avoid repetition.
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* IntentionalHeartbreaker: Estella Havisham is main character Pip's love interest, whom he thinks he's being groomed to wed because he's under the mistaken belief that her adopted mother, Miss Havisham, is his secret benefactor helping to advance him in society. In reality, Miss Havisham has been grooming Estella to be her weapon to take revenge on men in general by making them fall in love with her then breaking their hearts. Estella herself claims she has no real affections for anyone due to her training.
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Then, out of nowhere, a lawyer named Mr. Jaggers shows up at Pip's doorstep and tells his stunned family that he has "[[TitleDrop great expectations]]" bestowed upon him by a MysteriousBenefactor. 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 Drummle, 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.
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Then, out of nowhere, a lawyer named Mr. Jaggers shows up at Pip's doorstep and tells his stunned family that he has "[[TitleDrop great expectations]]" bestowed upon him by a MysteriousBenefactor. 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 Drummle, 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 confront a variety of surprises, disappointments, and unexpected revelations.
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* UnusualEuphemism: "Tickler" is the nickname of the stick Pip's sister uses to beat him.
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* TheShowMustGoWrong: Mr. Wopsle stars in a production of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' that is a complete disaster.
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* TheShowMustGoWrong: Mr. Wopsle stars in a production of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' that is a complete disaster.disaster, with nonstop heckling from the crowd. Fortunately (?) he’s so GiftedlyBad that he doesn’t care.
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* TheShowMustGoWrong: Mr. Wopsle stars in a production of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' that is a complete disaster.
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* NoNameGiven: Pip's sister is only referred to as "Mrs. Joe" (even by her brother and husband) or "my sister" till near the end of the book, when Pumblechook states she “was Georgiana M'ria from her own mother."
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** Pip's sister is only referred to as "Mrs. Joe" (even by her brother and husband) or "my sister" till near the end of the book, when Pumblechook states she “was Georgiana M'ria from her own mother."
** Pip's sister is only referred to as "Mrs. Joe" (even by her brother and husband) or "my sister" till near the end of the book, when Pumblechook states she “was Georgiana M'ria from her own mother."
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* NouveauRiche: Though Pip was discontent with his lower-class upbringing even before he came into money, his newfound fortune just makes this worse. He has to learn how to navigate wealthy society once he receives his inheritance.
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* RagsToRiches: A mysterious benefactor provides for Pip to be elevated from a lower-class lifestyle to live in London as a wealthy gentleman. Naturally, this doesn't quite turn out as well for Pip as he had hoped.
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* AffectionateNickname: Herbert nicknames Pip "Handel," after [[Music/GeorgeFredericHandel the composer]] of the piece "The Harmonious Blacksmith" (reasoning that Pip was originally a blacksmith, and they get along harmoniously). For that matter, "Pip" is already a nickname for Phillip.
* BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage: Miss Havisham's fiancé abandoned her at the altar. She never got over it.
* CouldSayItBut: Jaggers refuses to confirm or deny his actions involving a certain foundling child, but he puts it to Pip as a purely hypothetical case, which allows him to go into detail without technically admitting anything.
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* DomesticAbuse: Once she marries Drummle -[[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy much to Pip's utter horror]], Estella suffers so badly from this that her marriage ends in separation.
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** Pip's sister is physically and emotionally abusive toward her husband Joe, and to Pip himself. {{Iron|y}}ically, 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. He does his best to protect him in his own way, though.
** Once she marries Drummle -[[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy much to Pip's utter horror]], Estella suffers so badly from this that her marriage ends in separation.
** Pip's sister is physically and emotionally abusive toward her husband Joe, and to Pip himself. {{Iron|y}}ically, 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. He does his best to protect him in his own way, though.
** Once she marries Drummle -[[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy much to Pip's utter horror]], Estella suffers so badly from this that her marriage ends in separation.
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* {{Irony}}: 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. He does his best to protect him in his own way, though.
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** Joe Gargery is a GentleGiant, respected by everyone, and the only person to be genuinely kind to Pip during his childhood.
** Herbert Pocket, Pip's roommate, is a pleasant and happy fellow who strikes up a friendship with Pip immediately and provides a nice {{foil}} to Pip's melancholic temperament.
* NeverSayDie: Joe is reluctant to tell Pip that Miss Havisham has ''died'' as such, but his attempt at being delicate about it comes out to, "She ain't living."
** Joe Gargery is a GentleGiant, respected by everyone, and the only person to be genuinely kind to Pip during his childhood.
** Herbert Pocket, Pip's roommate, is a pleasant and happy fellow who strikes up a friendship with Pip immediately and provides a nice {{foil}} to Pip's melancholic temperament.
* NeverSayDie: Joe is reluctant to tell Pip that Miss Havisham has ''died'' as such, but his attempt at being delicate about it comes out to, "She ain't living."
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* RememberTheNewGuy: It isn't until chapter 15 that we learn that Joe has had another apprentice all along; apparently Pip just never thought to mention Orlick before. (In reality, this was because the novel was originaly published serially, meaning Dickens couldn't go back to add the new character to earlier chapters.)
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* UnrequitedLove: Poor Pip spends most of his life pining for Estella, even though everyone (including Estella herself) tells him he has absolutely no chance.
* UnfortunateNames: Orlick claims his first name is Dolge, although Pip says this is "a clear impossibility" since he would never have been christened that in a church.
* UnfortunateNames: Orlick claims his first name is Dolge, although Pip says this is "a clear impossibility" since he would never have been christened that in a church.
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* WouldNotHitAGirl: Joe Gargery grew up in an abusive home where his father hit his mother, and as a result resolved to never hit a woman. Unhappily, this makes him the victim of more physical abuse from his wife.
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''Great Expectations'' has been subject to many a film adaptation. The one most likely to have been viewed in a high school English class is [[Film/GreatExpectations1946 the 1946 film]] directed by Creator/DavidLean. There also has been a 1974 MadeForTVMovie, a 1998 movie that is a modern day adaptation set in Miami, a 1999 miniseries, and a 2012 movie adaptation that features ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' veterans Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/JessieCave, and Robbie Coltrane, as well as Jeremy Irvine, Creator/JasonFlemyng, Creator/HollidayGrainger from ''Series/TheBorgias,'' David Walliams from ''Series/LittleBritain'', and Creator/RalphIneson from ''Series/TheOfficeUK''. There has also been a [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent Completely Different]] ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parody.
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''Great Expectations'' has been subject to many a film adaptation. The one most likely to have been viewed in a high school English class is [[Film/GreatExpectations1946 the 1946 film]] directed by Creator/DavidLean. There also has been a 1974 MadeForTVMovie, a 1998 movie that is a modern day adaptation set in Miami, a 1999 miniseries, a 2011 miniseries, and a 2012 movie adaptation that features ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' veterans Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/JessieCave, and Robbie Coltrane, as well as Jeremy Irvine, Creator/JasonFlemyng, Creator/HollidayGrainger from ''Series/TheBorgias,'' David Walliams from ''Series/LittleBritain'', and Creator/RalphIneson from ''Series/TheOfficeUK''. There has also been a [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent Completely Different]] ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parody.
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''Great Expectations'' has been subject to many a film adaptation. The one most likely to have been viewed in a high school English class is [[Film/GreatExpectations1946 the 1946 film]] directed by Creator/DavidLean. There also has been a 1974 MadeForTVMovie, a 1998 movie that is a modern day adaptation set in Miami, a 1999 miniseries, and a 2012 movie adaptation that features ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' veterans Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/JessieCave, and Robbie Coltrane, as well as Jeremy Irvine, Creator/JasonFlemyng, Holliday Grainger from ''Series/TheBorgias,'' David Walliams from ''Series/LittleBritain'', and Creator/RalphIneson from ''Series/TheOfficeUK''. There has also been a [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent Completely Different]] ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parody.
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''Great Expectations'' has been subject to many a film adaptation. The one most likely to have been viewed in a high school English class is [[Film/GreatExpectations1946 the 1946 film]] directed by Creator/DavidLean. There also has been a 1974 MadeForTVMovie, a 1998 movie that is a modern day adaptation set in Miami, a 1999 miniseries, and a 2012 movie adaptation that features ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' veterans Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/JessieCave, and Robbie Coltrane, as well as Jeremy Irvine, Creator/JasonFlemyng, Holliday Grainger Creator/HollidayGrainger from ''Series/TheBorgias,'' David Walliams from ''Series/LittleBritain'', and Creator/RalphIneson from ''Series/TheOfficeUK''. There has also been a [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent Completely Different]] ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parody.
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* SheIsAllGrownUp: When Pip returns to Miss Havisham's after an absence of many years, he completely fails to recognize the beautiful young woman attending Miss Havisham, until the woman looks him in the eye and he recognizes Estella's eyes.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Estella at the ending; her misery in her abusive relationship with Drummle has made her into a person with feelings, for the first time.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Estella at the ending; her misery in her abusive relationship with Drummle has made her into a person with feelings, feelings for the first time.
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* NeverMyFault: Orlick, who, as Pip points out, is responsible for his own misfortune and reputation due to his bad attitude, but still blames Pip for all of it. This is leads to him crippling Pip's sister and trying to kill Pip himself later on.
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* NeverMyFault: Orlick, who, as Pip points out, is responsible for his own misfortune and reputation due to his bad attitude, but still blames Pip for all of it. This is leads to him crippling Pip's sister and trying to kill Pip himself later on.
