Great Expectations
Anticipating wonderful outcomes
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1861, following the orphan Pip from humble beginnings through his pursuit of wealth and status in Victorian England.
The title has become shorthand for ambitious hopes, especially ones that may prove illusory or lead to disappointment: He arrived in Hollywood with great expectations.
Spanish feminine name
- marshesWaterlogged land with grasses
- convictJailed offender after trial
- forgeFurnace for shaping metal
- LondonEngland's capital city
Miss Havisham · serialized · bildungsroman · first-person · Newgate · Thames · pocket watch · wedding dress
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- class mobilityMovement between economic strata
- gentilityRefined social standing
- workhousesLabor-based relief institutions
London · debtors prison · transportation · convicts · orphans · apprenticeship · inheritance · benefactor
Teenage developmental stage
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- self-discoveryLearning one's true character
- identityWho someone is
- growthIncrease in size
innocence · experience · disillusionment · ambition · snobbery · shame · aspiration · transformation
Internal moral sense
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- humilityFreedom from arrogance
compassion · forgiveness · gratitude · loyalty · snobbery · shame · true worth · character
Estella
Spanish feminine name
- marshesWaterlogged land with grasses
- convictJailed offender after trial
- forgeFurnace for shaping metal
Miss Havisham · London · serialized · bildungsroman · first-person · Newgate · Thames · pocket watch · wedding dress
Charles Dickens
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- class mobilityMovement between economic strata
- gentilityRefined social standing
workhouses · London · debtors prison · transportation · convicts · orphans · apprenticeship · inheritance · benefactor · gentleman
adolescence
Teenage developmental stage
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- self-discoveryLearning one's true character
- identityWho someone is
growth · innocence · experience · disillusionment · ambition · snobbery · shame · aspiration · transformation · formative years
conscience
Internal moral sense
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
humility · compassion · forgiveness · gratitude · loyalty · snobbery · shame · true worth · character · integrity
- Class DramasPride and Prejudice, Downton Abbey, My Fair Lady, Pygmalion, Emma
- British novelsPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, Middlemarch
- Classic NovelsAnna Karenina, Madame Bovary, War and Peace, Middlemarch, Crime and Punishment
- Victorian ClassicsPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield
- Victorian fictionJane Eyre, gothic fiction, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, serial novels
- Victorian novelsJane Eyre, Middlemarch, Wuthering Heights, North and South, Bleak House
Great Expectationsbleak outlook
Expectation of poor outcomes
hopelessness · cynicism · dread · foreboding · pessimism
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