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Novel
Third year
Great Expectations
Plot Summary
The First Stage of Pip's Expectations
Charles Dickens' Great Expectations opens as seven-year-old Philip Pirrip,
known as "Pip," visits the graves of his parents down in the marshes near his
home on Christmas Eve
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Pip steals some food from his brother-in-law, the blacksmith لحد دJoe
Gargery, and his cruel sister "Mrs
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The convict is soon caught and returned to the "Hulks," the
prison ships from which he had escaped
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Miss Havisham lives in the gloomy Satis House, and
Pip discovers her to be an extremely eccentric woman
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Miss Havisham has raised ربتEstella to be a cold and heartless woman
who will avenge نتقمher adopted mother ام لمتبنيةby breaking the hearts of men
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Because of Miss Havisham's interest in him, Pip's family and friends speculateيتامل
on his future prospects ,حاجا في لمستقبل حلوand Pip attempts to improve those
prospects by asking his friend, the orphaned Biddy, to tutor يعلمhim
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Pip is disappointed
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Joe, has been injured with a great blow to the back of the head
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Biddy believes that it was Orlick, a
contemptuous حاقدemployee يوظفof Joe's, who injured Mrs
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Biddy also fears
that Orlick is falling in love with her
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Sometime later a stranger visits Pip and informs him that an anonymous
benefactor رجل خيرwould like to transform him into a gentleman
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Pip assumes that Miss Havisham is his
mysterious benefactor
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The Second Stage of Pip's Expectations
In London, Pip lodges with Pocket's son Herbert
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Wemmick takes Pip home to dinner one night, and Pip is intrigued by his house,
which resembles a tiny castle, complete with drawbridge جسر متحرand moat ,خند
where Wemmick lives with his elderly and stone-deaf father, whom he calls "the
Aged P
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Joe comes to London to bring a message to Pip, who is embarrassed to have
Joe visit him
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Going to Satis House at once, Pip is surprised
to find that Orlick is now Miss Havisham's watchman, and he tells Jaggers that
the man should be dismissed
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While he is there, he promises Biddy
that he will visit Joe often in the future, but Biddy expresses her doubt that he
actually will do so:
'I am not going to leave poor Joe alone
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"Biddy, don't you hear me?"
"Yes, Mr
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"
"Not to mention your calling me Mr
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"Biddy," said I, in a virtuously بودself-asserting manner, 'I must request to know what you
mean by this?"
"By this?" said Biddy
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"You used not to echo, Biddy
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"O Mr
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و ضحHave the goodness, Biddy, to tell me why
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"Oh dear me!" said I, as if I found myself compelled to give up يقلع عنBiddy in despair
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This shocks me very much
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The convict, Abel Magwitch, has
made a fortune as a sheep farmer in New South Wales, Australia, and he has
prided himself on having used his money to make a gentleman out of the little boy
who had helped him long ago
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Magwitch tells him of his history, and how he became involved with another
more gentlemanly criminal who got him into trouble, and yet was punished less
severely when they were both caught
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Arthur was supposed to marry Miss Havisham to
get her money, but his conscience caused him to abandon her at the altar when
he couldn't go through with the plan
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Planning to leave the country with Magwitch, Pip pays Miss Havisham a
call
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تساعدهم في شغل مش معروPip is shocked to learn that Estella
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plans to marry his doltish acquaintance Bentley Drummle
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Having been
accused of killing another woman involved with her husband and having
threatened to murder her own daughter, Molly was successfully defended by
Jaggers
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Pip is summoned to Miss Havisham's again, where the old lady begs Pip to
forgive her
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He finds the poor old woman ablaze ,يحترhaving sat too close to
the fire, and he is burned while trying to put out the flames
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Returning to London, he learns the story of Magwitch's wife, and
deduces that Magwitch was married to Molly, and therefore is Estella's father
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He returns to London where he and Herbert carry
out their plan to sneak Magwitch onto a steamer قارon the Thames
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They are attacked by another boat, and Magwitch is severely
wounded
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After being nursed out of a serious illness by the devoted Joe, Pip joins the
business partnership he has established for Herbert in the East
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He also meets Estella, who has left her husband, on the property of the
now demolished ختنقتSatis House
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In Dickens' original version, Pip and Estella part with the understanding
that they will probably never see each other again, but in the revised version,
Dickens' makes the ending more optimistic by implying that they will, indeed,
have a future together someday