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The prologue of the novel " Great Expectations " By Charles Dickens

One of the greatest masterpieces written in the 19th century, Great Expectations portraits a story revealing the real life lived in Britain at that time. Poor children were ill-treated and exploited by rich people which was criticized by all intellectuals of which Blake’s Chimney Sweeper is just an example. Great Expectations narrates a story about Pip, an orphan living on Kent marshes with his abusive, harsh and irresponsible sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, the village Blacksmith. His full name is Philip Pirrip but he could not utter it properly and hence, he called himself Pip, a one-syllable word, for its easiness. The story began when Pip met a convict, his would-be benefactor. Pip was so afraid of the convict who asked him to bring him food making him do his innocent robbery. Pip was to Miss Havisham’s house just like a toy to play with. Miss Havisham represents those bad rich people who have no mercy, love, respect and value for poor people. While playing with, Pip falls in love with Estela in spite of her obsessive and immoral attitudes towards him thinking of him as a coarse boy and not a gentle but poor. The ill-treatment Pip received in Miss Havisham’s house was a kind of self-minimization, dehumanizing, accusation in terms of his existence and passive personality. However, this does not make him yield. One day he fought one Miss Havisham’s relatives for Estela, revealing the guilty which is mixed with secrecy and fear of revealing. Such circumstances provoke some kind of self-defense in him, great expectations. The chance for fulfilling this comes when Mr. Jagger comes and tells Pip about his great expectations. For the sake of gentility, his ambition to win Estella, he follows Mr. Jagger. Pip benefactors' are still unknown. Pip starts focusing on money at the cost of morals and his friendship with Joe. He starts having friends such as Herbert who will be supported in his...