远大前程英文介绍
GreatExpectations远大前程导读(过脑不忘单词教研组荣誉出品)

GreatExpectations远大前程导读(过脑不忘单词教研组荣誉出品)社会上有些人或许会认为有了财富,自然也就会有了一切,因为他们认为钱是万能的。
但《远大前程》告诉我们,金钱虽然满足了他的虚荣,满足了他的物欲,却无法获得艾丝黛拉对他的真爱;他即使成为了所谓的“绅士”而参加各种欢愉的活动,心中却因缺少了亲人对他的关爱而麻木不仁。
所以金钱买不来真情,也买不来快乐。
珍视已经拥有的命运的玄妙一无所有后的匹普才明白了这个道理,于是捡起了他那颗纯真善良的心,乡村虽是简陋,但却是最简单幸福的生活。
正如孔子那句话一箪食,一瓢饮,在陋巷。
人不堪其忧,贤哉!一颗纯真质朴的心,在拜金狂潮中愈是能体现出人性的最美好,最动人的一面。
或许这些不能给我们带来享受奢靡的生活或是尊崇的社会地位,但它能使生活回归最简单的快乐。
而善良的本质,恰恰是生活中最为珍贵的财富。
珍视已经拥有的命运的玄妙ThanksForYourAttention谢谢大家远大前程导读过脑不忘单词教研组荣誉出品Contents目录01简介02人物性格分析03经典情节04启示与感想SmallTitleHere{一.简介}狄更斯,英国著名作家{简介}A{作者生平}理想主义、浪漫主义反思和批判精神C晚期作品,抑郁增强,乐观削弱;更具现实性和警示性{《远大前程》}B一生创作丰富,关注英国社会底层,反映英国复杂的社会现实{创作情况}D{故事简介}匹普经不起诱惑丧失淳朴,历经磨难才悔悟,重新生活简介作者生平查尔斯·狄更斯,全名查尔斯·约翰·赫法姆·狄更斯(CharlesJohnHuffamDickens,1812年2月7日—1870年6月9日),英国作家。
狄更斯1812年2月7日生于朴次茅斯市郊,出生于海军小职员家庭,童年非常幸福,生活在富裕的中产阶级家庭中。
少年时(10岁)因家庭生活窘迫,只能断断续续入校求学。
后被迫到工场做童工。
《远大前程》简介(英文版)

Great ExpectationsCharles DickensPip,a young orphan lives a humble existence with his ill-tempered older sister and her strong but gentle husband,Joe Gargery.On a Christmas Eve,Pip helps a convict who escaped from a prison ship by giving him some food and a file.One day,Pip gets invited unexpectedly to the house of a rich old woman in the village named Miss Havishamas.Miss Havisham is an old woman who was abandoned on her wedding day , so she raise her adoped daughter Estella as a cruel-hearted girl who will break men's hearts.Estella is beautiful, and Pip develops a strong crush on her, but she treats him coldly and contemptuously.From that time on, Pip aspires to leave behind his simple life and be a gentleman.Fortunatly one day Pip is given a large fortune from a secret benefactor and get a chance of education to become a gentlemen.For many years Pip has led a fairly undisciplined life in London, enjoying themselves and running up debts,and finally becomes a selfish and peacockery youngman.It lasts until one day,Pip learns the true identity of his benefactor——it is not Miss Havisham (who has made many misleading comments indicating it was her) but rather a petty criminal named Magwitch who is the convict Pip helped in his childhood.It is he that left all his money to Pip in gratitude for that kindness and also because young Pip reminded him of his own child.Pip is appalled, but he feels morally bound to help Magwitch escape London, as the convict is pursued both by the police and by his former partner in crime.Before Magwitch’s escape attempt, Estella marries an upper-class lout. Also,they are discovered by the police and captured to the jail, because of their convict partner's tipping off.Pip by now is devoted to Magwitch and recognizes in him a good and noble man and Pip has discovered that Magwitch is actually Estella's father.Without money or expectations, Pip, after a period of bad illness during which Joe cares for him.Pip decides to go abroad in the mercantile trade. Returning many years later, he encounters divorced Estella in the ruined garden at Satis House. Pip finds that Estella’s coldness and cruelty have been replaced by a sad kindness, and the two leave the garden hand in hand, Pip believing that they will never part again.Plot summary: Great Expectations, by Charles DickensPhilip Pirrip, who is known as Pip because, not surprisingly, he finds it difficult to pronounce his name, has a terrifying childhood experience in a graveyard on the Kent marshes.A prisoner, who has escaped from a nearby prison ship, grabs hold of Pip and demands that he fetch food and a file to remove his manacles.Pip is an orphan, and he lives with his older sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, a village blacksmith. Soldiers come to the forge to repair some manacles, and then set off to search for the convict, whose name is Abel Magwitch. The latter allows himself to be caught, because the same fate then awaits his fellow escapee, the hated Compeyson.Pip is invited to Satis House, ostensibly to be the playmate of Estella, who is the ward of Miss Havisham, a recluse who, many years previously, had been jilted at the altar. For Miss Havisham, time stood still on that day, so the clocks are never wound, the wedding cake stands where it always did, now covered in cobwebs, and she still wears her wedding dress. She has sworn to revenge herself on men, and she is bringing Estella up to think the same way.However, Pip falls in love with Estella, and at Satis House he also meets a boy of his own age who is playing in the grounds. This is Herbert Pocket.Jaggers, who is Miss Havisham's lawyer, comes to the forge, where Pip is apprenticed to Joe, to tell Pip that he has "great expectations" that will come to him from an unknown benefactor, whom Pip assumes must be Miss Havisham.Joe releases Pip from his apprenticeship and he travels to London, where he is befriended by Wemmick, Jaggers's clerk, and Herbert Pocket. Meanwhile, his sister, Mrs Joe, is brutally murdered at the forge.Pip has a hard time of it in London, including financial difficulties caused by his belief in those "great expectations" coming to fruition, and the knowledge that Estella has rejected him in favour of Bentley Drummle. The worst shock is the reappearance of Magwitch, who has escaped from the penal colony in Australia to which he had been transported. Magwitch tells him that it is he, and not Miss Havisham, who is his mysterious benefactor. However, this horrifies the somewhatsnobbish Pip, and he determines to help Magwitch to get out of the country.Returning to Satis House, Pip asks Miss Havisham for help to set Herbert Pocket up in business. However, she gets too close to the open fire and her dress catches light. Pip is able to douse the flames, but Miss Havisham dies from her burns. Before she does so, she implores Pip's forgiveness and gives him clues that Estella is the daughter of Magwitch and Jaggers's housekeeper.Pip gets a mysterious message that calls him back to the Kent marshes. There he is nearlykilled by Orlick, who works with Joe and who is revealed to be the murderer of Mrs Joe. Pip is rescued by Herbert. Pip and Herbert return to London, where they are about to execute Magwitch's escape, but they learn that they are being watched. The plan is to take a boat down the river, but they are intercepted by officers who are guided by Compeyson. In the struggle, Magwitch is wounded and Compeyson drowns. Magwitch is condemned to hang, but dies before this can happen.Pip returns to the forge, intending to propose to his childhood sweetheart, Biddy, but finds that she has married Joe. Pip goes to Egypt to join Herbert Pocket's shipping firm, and only returns several years later to find and marry Estella, who is now widowed.。
《远大前程》简介(英文版)

Great ExpectationsCharles DickensPip,a young orphan lives a humble existence with his ill-tempered older sister and her strong but gentle husband,Joe Gargery.On a Christmas Eve,Pip helps a convict who escaped from a prison ship by giving him some food and a file.One day,Pip gets invited unexpectedly to the house of a rich old woman in the village named Miss Havishamas.Miss Havisham is an old woman who was abandoned on her wedding day , so she raise her adoped daughter Estella as a cruel-hearted girl who will break men's hearts.Estella is beautiful, and Pip develops a strong crush on her, but she treats him coldly and contemptuously.From that time on, Pip aspires to leave behind his simple life and be a gentleman.Fortunatly one day Pip is given a large fortune from a secret benefactor and get a chance of education to become a gentlemen.For many years Pip has led a fairly undisciplined life in London, enjoying themselves and running up debts,and finally becomes a selfish and peacockery youngman.It lasts until one day,Pip learns the true identity of his benefactor——it is not Miss Havisham (who has made many misleading comments indicating it was her) but rather a petty criminal named Magwitch who is the convict Pip helped in his childhood.It is he that left all his money to Pip in gratitude for that kindness and also because young Pip reminded him of his own child.Pip is appalled, but he feels morally bound to help Magwitch escape London, as the convict is pursued both by the police and by his former partner in crime.Before Magwitch’s escape attempt, Estella marries an upper-class lout. Also,they are discovered by the police and captured to the jail, because of their convict partner's tipping off.Pip by now is devoted to Magwitch and recognizes in him a good and noble man and Pip has discovered that Magwitch is actually Estella's father.Without money or expectations, Pip, after a period of bad illness during which Joe cares for him.Pip decides to go abroad in the mercantile trade. Returning many years later, he encounters divorced Estella in the ruined garden at Satis House. Pip finds that Estella’s coldness and cruelty have been replaced by a sad kindness, and the two leave the garden hand in hand, Pip believing that they will never part again.Plot summary: Great Expectations, by Charles DickensPhilip Pirrip, who is known as Pip because, not surprisingly, he finds it difficult to pronounce his name, has a terrifying childhood experience in a graveyard on the Kent marshes.A prisoner, who has escaped from a nearby prison ship, grabs hold of Pip and demands that he fetch food and a file to remove his manacles.Pip is an orphan, and he lives with his older sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, a village blacksmith. Soldiers come to the forge to repair some manacles, and then set off to search for the convict, whose name is Abel Magwitch. The latter allows himself to be caught, because the same fate then awaits his fellow escapee, the hated Compeyson.Pip is invited to Satis House, ostensibly to be the playmate of Estella, who is the ward of Miss Havisham, a recluse who, many years previously, had been jilted at the altar. For Miss Havisham, time stood still on that day, so the clocks are never wound, the wedding cake stands where it always did, now covered in cobwebs, and she still wears her wedding dress. She has sworn to revenge herself on men, and she is bringing Estella up to think the same way.However, Pip falls in love with Estella, and at Satis House he also meets a boy of his own age who is playing in the grounds. This is Herbert Pocket.Jaggers, who is Miss Havisham's lawyer, comes to the forge, where Pip is apprenticed to Joe, to tell Pip that he has "great expectations" that will come to him from an unknown benefactor, whom Pip assumes must be Miss Havisham.Joe releases Pip from his apprenticeship and he travels to London, where he is befriended by Wemmick, Jaggers's clerk, and Herbert Pocket. Meanwhile, his sister, Mrs Joe, is brutally murdered at the forge.Pip has a hard time of it in London, including financial difficulties caused by his belief in those "great expectations" coming to fruition, and the knowledge that Estella has rejected him in favour of Bentley Drummle. The worst shock is the reappearance of Magwitch, who has escaped from the penal colony in Australia to which he had been transported. Magwitch tells him that it is he, and not Miss Havisham, who is his mysterious benefactor. However, this horrifies the somewhatsnobbish Pip, and he determines to help Magwitch to get out of the country.Returning to Satis House, Pip asks Miss Havisham for help to set Herbert Pocket up in business. However, she gets too close to the open fire and her dress catches light. Pip is able to douse the flames, but Miss Havisham dies from her burns. Before she does so, she implores Pip's forgiveness and gives him clues that Estella is the daughter of Magwitch and Jaggers's housekeeper.Pip gets a mysterious message that calls him back to the Kent marshes. There he is nearlykilled by Orlick, who works with Joe and who is revealed to be the murderer of Mrs Joe. Pip is rescued by Herbert. Pip and Herbert return to London, where they are about to execute Magwitch's escape, but they learn that they are being watched. The plan is to take a boat down the river, but they are intercepted by officers who are guided by Compeyson. In the struggle, Magwitch is wounded and Compeyson drowns. Magwitch is condemned to hang, but dies before this can happen.Pip returns to the forge, intending to propose to his childhood sweetheart, Biddy, but finds that she has married Joe. Pip goes to Egypt to join Herbert Pocket's shipping firm, and only returns several years later to find and marry Estella, who is now widowed.。
远大前程英文经典段落

远大前程英文经典段落导读:我根据大家的需要整理了一份关于《远大前程英文经典段落》的内容,具体内容:《远大前程》又译《孤星血泪》,作者透过剧中孤儿的跌宕起落,表达他对生命和人性的看法。
下面我为大家带来,欢迎大家阅读!1He was a secret-looking...《远大前程》又译《孤星血泪》,作者透过剧中孤儿的跌宕起落,表达他对生命和人性的看法。
下面我为大家带来,欢迎大家阅读!1He was a secret-looking man whom I had never seen before. His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if he were taking aim at something with an invisible gun. He had a pipe in his mouth, and he took it out, and, after slowly blowing all his smoke away and looking hard at me all the time, nodded. So, I nodded, and then he nodded again, and made room on the settle beside him that I might sit down there.2However, go to Miss Havishams I must, and go I did. And behold! nothing came of the late struggle. It was not alluded to in any way, and no pale young gentleman was to be discovered on the premises.I found the same gate open, and I explored the garden, and even looked in at the windows of the detached house; but, my view was suddenlystopped by the closed shutters within, and all was lifeless. Only in the corner where the combat had taken place, could I detect any evidence of the young gentlemans existence. There were traces of his gore in that spot, and I covered them with garden-mould from the eye of man.3For such reasons I was very glad when ten oclock came and we started for Miss Havishams; though I was not at all at my ease regarding the manner in which I should acquit myself under that ladys roof. Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havishams house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred. There was a court-yard in front, and that was barred; so, we had to wait, after ringing the bell, until some one should come to open it. While we waited at the gate, I peeped in (even then Mr Pumblechook said, `And fourteen? but I pretended not to hear him), and saw that at the side of house there was a large brewery. No brewing was going on in it, and none seemed to have gone on for a long long time.4AT the time when I stood in the churchyard, reading the family tombstones, I had just enough learning to be able to spell them out.My construction even of their simple meaning was not very correct, for I read `wife of the Above as a complimentary reference to my fathers exaltation to a better world; and if any one of my deceased relations had been referred to as `Below, I have no doubt I should have formed the worst opinions of that member of the family. Neither, were my notions of the theological positions to which my Catechism bound me, at all accurate; for, I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my declaration that I was to `walk in the same all the days of my life, laid me under an obligation always to go through the village from our house in one particular direction, and never to vary it by turning down by the wheelwrights or up by the mill. 5As the night was fast falling, and as the moon, being past the full, would not rise early,we held a little council: a short one, for clearly our course was to lie by at the first lonely tavern we could find. So, they plied their oars once more, and I looked out for anything like a house. Thus we held on, speaking little, for four or five dull miles. It was very cold, and, a collier coming by us, with her gallery-fire smoking and flaring, looked like a comfortable home. The night was as dark by this time as it would be until morning; and what light we had, seemed to come more from the river than the sky, as the oars in their dipping stuck at a fewreflected stars.天黑得很快,偏巧这天又是下弦月,月亮不会很早升起。
远大前程(英文)

Great Expectations——远大前程In thist term , I read a book called 《Great Expectations》, it was written by Charles Dickens, one of the most famous English writers. He wrote lots of wonderful novels. This book is one of his compositions.People always like to compare with their friends. It is a big foible of all the people. If other people have a lot of money, we also want to be rich. If all the people around us are poor , we never mind that we are very poor, too. we will not ashamed because of our folly. This is a social problem.If we never possess anything, we will not mind we lost some thing. Since we don’t want to be very rich ,we will not feel despond because poor.The protagonist of this novel is Pip (Handel). His parents died when he was a baby. His sis ter had brought him up ‘by hand’. His sister married to Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith. They didn’t have much money, and Pip never went to school to study. But he was often very happy .Because all of his friends are like him. It isn’t very unfortunate to them, this is their lives. But by a chance, Pip helped a convict; he gave much food to him. Then he met Miss Havisham, a very strange old woman and she was very rich.Four years later, Miss Havisham wants Pip to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects inherit a fortune when he grow up.After hearing that . Pip started to despise his poor friends. He even feel ashamed because he live with the poor man . Pip’s ‘great expectations’ destroyed his life.This novel told us that we c annot compare with others .Don’t feel envy at the others money. And if one day you be very rich , please don’t despise your poor friends.。
远大前程英文概括(精选五篇)

远大前程英文概括(精选五篇)第一篇:远大前程英文概括Great expectationsThe story is divided into three phases of Pip's life expectations.In the first expectation, Pip lives a humble existence with his ill-tempered older sister and her strong but gentle husband.This life is suddenly turned upside down when he is visited by a London attorney, Mr.Jaggers, who informs Pip that he is to come into the “Great Expectation” of a handsome property and be trained to be a gentleman at the behest of an anonymous benefactor.The second stage of Pip's expectations has Pip in London, learning the details of being a gentlemen, having tutors, fine clothing, and joining cultured society.At the end of this stage, Pip is introduced to his benefactor, again changing his world.The third and last stage of Pip's expectations alters Pip's life from the artificially supported world of his upper class strivings and introduces him to realities that he realizes he must deal with, facing moral, physical and financial challenges.Pip does, however, use the perspective of the bitter lessons he's learned to comment acidly on various actions and attitudes in his earlier life.第二篇:远大前程(英文)Great Expectations——远大前程In thistterm , I read a book called 《 Great Expectations》, it was written by Charles Dickens, one of the most famous English writers.He wrote lots of wonderful novels.This book is one of his compositions.People always like to compare with their friends.It is a big foible of all the people.If other people have a lot of money, we also want to be rich.If all the people around us are poor , wenever mind that we are very poor, too.we will not ashamed because of our folly.This is a social problem.If we never possess anything, we will not mi nd we lost some thing.Since we don’t want to be very rich ,we will not feel despond because poor.The protagonist of this novel is Pip(Handel).His parents died when he was a baby.His sister had brought him up ‘by hand’.His sister married to Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith.They didn’t have much money, and Pip never went to school to study.But he was often very happy.Because all of his friends are like him.It isn’t very unfortunate to them, this is their lives.But by a chance, Pip helped a convict;he gave much food to him.Then he met Miss Havisham, a very strange old woman and she was very rich.Four years later, Miss Havisham wants Pip to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects inherit a fortune when he grow up.After hearing that.Pip started to despise his poor friends.He even feel ashamed because he live with the poor man.Pip’s ‘great expectations’ destroyed his life.This novel told us that we cannot compare with others.Don’t feel envy at the others money.And if one day you be very rich , please don’t despise your poor friends.第三篇:远大前程英文读后感远大前程英文读后感一:Great Expectations“Great expectations” is one of Dicken’s most maturest works.After Dicken had experienced large part of meaningful life, he had a deeper cognition for people, environment, as well as the life which he had gone through.And all the mature cognitions are included in this writing---Great expectations.pip was brought up by his sister who was unpleasant as well as crude and her friendly blacksmith husband—Joe.Joe himself had arranged a common hard but satisfied path for pip to go through, and onthe other hand, pip beheld this as his highest goal to achieve.But the two things which he had experienced later had changed his pursue and his fate as well.Met Abel Magwith(an escaped convict)in the swamp, and unwillingly helped him out of danger by stealing food from his own home.If say that had changed his attitude for material life, then, his introduction to Miss Havisham, an aging woman who had been jilted at the alter and Estella who had been brought up by Havisham only to revenge for her own pain had brought vast shock for his world of spirit.Aspiring to be a gentleman despite his humble born, pip fortunately or unfortunately received a fund of wealth from an unknown source and being sent to London with a lawyer.From then on, he became a gentleman without question at the price of losing everything.The title of this book is ‘Great expectations” which make an impression on us that the character would have great expectations just as the title goes.But in fact this title has a tone of sarcastic on the other way around.This story full of quirkiness from the very beginning to the end, the relations among characters are anfractuous as well which actually attracted me a lot.One of the paragraphs, which I appreciate most implicatively as well as beautifully expresses the feeling between pip and Estella.“We are friends,” said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench.‘And will continue friends apart.” Said Estella.I took his hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first let the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.At the view of language, this works had achieved a step o f highest, Dicken had made this writing plain and fluent as well, which surely can attract lots ofreaders and high comments.To be frank, I really impressed by this art of beauty.So I like Dicken’s works very much.远大前程英文读后感二:To be simpleAfter reading the whole book of “Great Expectations” written by Charles Dickens, I can’t find suitable words to express my thoughts completely.First of all, I am attracted by the excellent literary talent of Charles Dickens.The descriptions of the details are just right for the foundation of the background.The design of the story also brings me shock.To me, it is not only a good story, but also a lesson of the life that I am experiencing.But, what I have learnt from the book is not the main idea that Charles Dickens wanted to show.What impresses me deeply is only a supporting role —pared with the life of pip, what Joe has experienced is so ordinary.He is an ordinary blacksmith, an ordinary husband, an ordinary brother, an ordinary friend, even an ordinary person!However, just such an ordinary person brings me a great special feeling.In his world, life is so simple.He is far away from the complex world which is polluted by the ugly soul of people.M ay be, “kind-hearted” is the biggest advantage of him, which is also the biggest shortage of him in his daily life.Different from all the other figures in the book, Joe’s life is so simple and his thoughts also stay pure after he experiences whatever sufferings that life gives him.In my opinion, his childhood is miserable.What he has experienced must be unhappy and sorrowful.He grows up in such a family, meets so much violence(May be, in that period, it is common)。
狄更斯《远大前程》英文

• During dinner, Pip steals bread • Next morning, Pip steals food, brandy, a pork pie, and a file • Runs back to the marshes to find the convict
Chapter 3
• Arrives at the marshes • Finds who he thinks is his convict, but it turns out to be a different convict
– Has a badly bruised face and wears a broadbrimmed hat – Runs away from Pip without speaking
• Pip leaves him filing his shackle and returns home
Chapter 4
• Pip returns home and finds Christmas dinner being prepared
– Guests include Mr. Wopsle (church clerk), Mr. & Mrs. Hubble, Uncle Pumblechook (presented as a loud mouth idiot, who is full of himself) – Dinner discussion focuses on how grateful Pip should be for being brought up “by hand”
狄更斯《远大前程》英文【精品】

• What do you think of when you hear the word success? What does it mean to you?
Great Expectations
Background on England in the 1800s
• The 1800s were a turbulent time in England. • Poverty and disease were rampant. • The legal system was unjust.
Bildungsroman
• Story is an example of a bildungsroman
– A German word meaning “a novel of selfcultivation” – a novelistic form that concentrates on the development and growth of the protagonist usually from childhood to maturity – “Coming of age story” – The protagonist goes on a journey of some kind. – The novel ends with an understanding by the protagonist of himself/herself and his/her new place in the world.
Themes
• • • • Good vs. Evil and Right vs. Wrong Struggle Between Social Classes Ambition The Burden of Guilt
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The story is divided into three phases of Pip's life expectations. The first "expectation" is allotted 19 chapters, and the other two 20 chapters each in the 59-chapter work. In some editions, the chapter numbering reverts to Chapter One in each expectation, but the original publication and most modern editions number the chapters consecutively from one to 59. At the end of chapters 19 and 39, readers are formally notified that they have reached the conclusion of a phase of Pip's expectations.
In the first expectation, Pip lives a humble existence with his ill-tempered older sister and her strong but gentle husband, Joe Gargery. Pip is satisfied with this life and his warm friends until he is hired by an embittered wealthy woman, Miss Havisham, as an occasional companion to her and her beautiful but haughty adopted daughter, Estella. From that time on, Pip aspires to leave behind his simple life and be a gentleman. After years as companion to Miss Havisham and Estella, he spends more years as an apprentice to Joe, so that he may grow up to have a livelihood working as a blacksmith. This life is suddenly turned upside down when he is visited by a London attorney, Mr. Jaggers, who informs Pip that he is to come into the "Great Expectation" of a handsome property and be trained to be a gentleman at the behest of an anonymous benefactor.
The second stage of Pip's expectations has Pip in London, learning the details of being a gentlemen, having tutors, fine clothing, and joining cultured society. Whereas he always engaged in honest labour when he was younger, he now is supported by a generous allowance, which he frequently lives beyond. He learns to fit in this new milieu, and experiences not only friendship but rivalry as he finds himself in the same circles as Estella, who is also pursued by many other men, especially Bentley Drummle, whom she favours. As he adopts the physical and cultural norms of his new status, he also adopts the class attitudes that go with it, and when Joe comes to visit Pip and his friend and roommate Herbert to deliver an important message, Pip is embarrassed to the point of hostility by Joe's unlearned ways, despite his protestations of love and friendship for Joe. At the end of this stage, Pip is introduced to his benefactor, again changing his world.
The third and last stage of Pip's expectations alters Pip's life from the artificially supported world of his upper class strivings and introduces him to realities that he realizes he must deal with, facing moral, physical and financial challenges. He learns startling truths that cast into doubt the values that he once embraced so eagerly, and finds that he cannot regain many of the important things that he had cast aside so carelessly. The current ending of the story is different from Dickens's original intent, in which the ending matched the gloomy reverses to Pip's fortunes that typify the last expectation. Dickens was prevailed upon to change the ending to one more acceptable to his readers'
tastes in that era, and this "new" ending was the published one and currently accepted as definitive.
Dickens has Pip as the writer and first person narrator of this account of his
life's experiences, and the entire story is understood to have been written as a retrospective, rather than as a present tense narrative or a diary or journal. Still, though Pip "knows" how all the events in the story will turn out, he uses only very subtle foreshadowing so that we learn of events only when the Pip in the story does. Pip does, however, use the perspective of the bitter lessons he's learned to comment acidly on various actions and attitudes in his earlier life.。