The Great Expectation

Narrator 1: Pip was very glad when ten o'clock came and they started for Miss
Havisham. Within a quarter of an hour, they came to Miss Havisham which was made of
old brick and had many iron bars to it.
Narrator 2: They rang the bell and waited at the gate. Later on, a window was raised
and a clear voice demanded.
Estella: what name?
Mr. Pumblechook: Pumblechook
Estella: Quite right.
Narrator 1: And the window was shut again and a young lady came across the
courtyard.
Mr. Pumblechook: This is pip.
Estella: This is pip is it? Come in pip.
Narrator 2: Mr. Pumblechook was coming in also but the young stopped him at the gate.
Estella: Oh!...did you wish to see Ms. Havisham?
Mr. Pumblechook: If Ms. Havisham wished to see me.
Estella: But you see, she doesn't
Narrator 3: She said it so finally, and in such a discussible way, but Mr. Pumblechook
eyed pip severely as if pip had done anything to him! Mr. Pumblechook departed and
young lady locked the gate and they went across the courtyard and brewery.
Narrator 4: The cold wind seemed to blow colder there than outside the gate and it
made a shrill noise howling in and out at the open sides of the brewery and the young
lady saw pip looking at it.
Estella: You could drink without hurt all the strong beer that is brewed there now boy.
Pip: I should think i could miss.
Estella: Better not try to brew there now, or it would turn out sour boy, don't you think
so?
Pip: It look like it miss.
Narrator3: After their small conversation, they went into the side house.one their way,
the first thing pip noticed was the passage were all dark. A candle lighted their way to
the door of a room.
Estella: Go in.
Pip: After you miss.
Estella: Don't be ridiculous boy, I’m not going in.
Narrator 4: The girl scornfully walked away and took the candles with her. Pip entered
the room and found himself in a dressing room that is well lighted and no glimpse of
daylight to be seen in it.
Narrator 5: In an arm chair, sat the strangest lady pip ever seen.
Ms. Havisham: Who is it?
Pip: Pip ma'am. Mr. Pumblechook's boy. Come to play.
Miss Havisham: Come nearer Pip. Let me look at you. Come close.
Ms. Havisham: Look at me, you are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun
since you were born?
Pip: No
Ms. Havisham: Do you know what i touch here?
Pip: Yes ma'am.
Ms. Havisham: What do i touch?
Pip: Your heart.
Ms. Havisham: Broken!
Narrator 6: She uttered the word with an eager look and with a weird smile that had a
kind of boast in it.
Ms. Havisham: I am tired, i want diversion, play. Are you sullen and obstinate?
Pip: No ma’am, i am very sorry if i can’t play just now. If you complain of me, i shall get
in trouble with my sister so i would do it if i could. But it’s so new here, so strange, so
fine, and so melancholy.
Ms. Havisham: Mutter so new to
+Him... so old to him, so new to me, so strange to him, so melancholy for both of us!
Call Estella! You can do that. Call Estella at the door.
Narrator 5: Estella answered at last. And her light came along the dark passage like a
star.ms. Havisham beckoned her to come close.
Ms. Havisham: Let me see you play cards with this boy.
Estella: With this boy? He's just a common laboring boy!
Ms. Havisham: Well? You can break his heart.
Estella: What do you play boy?
Pip: Nothing but beggar miss.
Ms. Havisham: Beggar him.
Narrator 6: Pip and Estella sat down and play cards, and after a while.
Estella: He calls knaves jack this boy! And what coarse hands he has! And what thick
boots!
Narrator 7: Said Estella with distain. Pip have never thought of being ashamed of his
hands before, but he began to consider them indifferent pair.
Narrator 8: Estella won the game and pip misdealt as was natural when he knew Estella
lied in wait for him to do wrong to denounce him for a stupid, clumsy laboring boy.
Ms. Havisham: You say nothing to her, she says many hard things of you but you say
nothing to her. What do you think of her?
Pip: I think she is very proud.
Ms. Havisham: Anything else?
Pip: I think she is very pretty and insulting.
Ms. Havisham: Anything else?
Pip: I think i should like to go home.
Ms. Havisham: And never see her again even though she is pretty?
Pip: i am not sure that i should see her again but i should like to go home now.
 Ms. Havisham: You shall go soon. Play the game out.
Narrator8: He played the game to an end with Estella.
Ms. Havisham: When shall i have you again?
Pip: Let me think.
Narrator 7: He was beginning to remind her that to-day was Wednesday, when she
checked him with her former impatient movement of her right hand.
Ms. Havisham: They there, i know nothing of days of the week. Come again after six
days you hear?
Pip: yes ma'am.
Ms. Havisham: Estella, take him down. Let him something to eat.
Narrator8: Pip followed Estella to the side entrance.
Estella: You are to wait boy.
Narrator 8: Estella disappeared and closed the door. Pip took the opportunity to be
alone, looking at his coarse hands and thick boots. They had never trouble pip before
but the trouble him now.
Narrator 7: Estella came back with bread, meat and a little mug of beer. She gave it to
him as it pip were a dog. Pip felt humiliated, hurt, offended, angry, and tears started to
his eyes.
Narrator 9: As Estella left. He looked for a place to hide his face and there he gets
behind one of the gates in the brewery lane. And there, he started crying.
Narrator 10: He got rid of it by kicking the wall along with his injured feelings. He saw
Estella approaching with the keys to let him out. She gave him a triumphant glance and
she touched him with a taunting hand.
Estella: Why don’t you cry?
Pip: Because I don’t want to.
Estella: You do...you have been crying and you were near crying again now.
Narrator 8: She pushed pip out. And locked the gate upon him. Pip went straight to Mr.
Pumblechook and was relieved to find him not there. He set on a four-mile walk and as
he went along he thought of how much of a laboring boy he is, that his hands were
coarse and his boots were thick and that he was much ignorant that he had considered
himself last night.

-The End-