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A convict frightens Pip in the cementary.
The stranger begins to stir his rum and water with Joe's file.
Pip fears that Estella will come to the forge and see him at his dirtiest, and he imagines her face in the flames of the fire in the forge.
Pip and Biddy take a walk on the marshes.
Pip prepares to leave for London.
The housekeeper shows her wrists to the guests.
Pip and Estella walk together in the overgrown garden.
Mr. Wemmick and Pip at Newgate Prison.
Pip and Estella in front of the carriage that will take Estella to Richmond.
A letter from Trabb and Company arrives for Pip telling him of his sister's death.
Pip asks Mr. Jaggers to dine with him only out of courtesy.
The 60 year old man who visits Pip and turns out to be the first convict on the marshes.
A coal from the fireplace catches Miss Havisham's dress on fire.
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Still from the 1946 film Great Expectations, starring Anthony Wager (right) as Pip and Finlay Currie (left) as Magwitch.
Illustration by Frederic W Pailthorpe, from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
Recommended Questions
- How does Dickens portray Pip's learning about life in two episodes of Great Expectations? Great Expectations by...
- In Great Expectations, how is Matthew Pocket going to help Pip?
- What are the three stages of Pip's expectations? Comment on them.
- In Great Expecations, why does Pip want to educate Joe? It has to be from Ch.13-15.
- Why does Estella behave as a changed women at the end of the novel?
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