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Great Expectations Background
Great Expectations Background
The greatest difference bet%een Great Expectations and Dickens( earlier novels is the introduction of dramatic ps&chological transformations %ithin the lead characters as opposed to characters that are changed onl& through their circumstances and surroundings. The stor& of 1ip is a 3ildungsroman 44 a stor& that centers on the education or development of the protagonist 44 and %e can follo% closel& the things that 1ip learns and then has to unlearn. -ll in all Great Expectations is considered the best balanced of all of Dickens( novels though a controvers& still persists over the ending. Dickens had originall& %ritten an ending %here 1ip and Estella never get back together. 5an& critics including George 3ernard 0ha% believe that this rather depressing ending %as more consistent %ith the overall theme and tone of the novel %hich began continued and perhaps should have finished %ith a serious unhapp& note. 6evertheless Dickens published the ending %here all is forgiven and Estella and 1ip %alk out of the 0atis 'ouse garden together. It %as perhaps an ending that Dickens %ould have like to have had for his o%n life. Dickens published one more novel 7ur 5utual 2riend before d&ing in !"8$.