![]() ![]() Estella uses the game to make Pip aware of how common he is: ![]() Miss Havisham has Pip and Estella play Beggar My Neighbor to entertain her. To be quite sure I had fallen into no unconscious repetitions, I read David Copperfield again the other day, and was affected by it to a degree you would hardly believe" ( Forster, 1899, v. Of course I have got in the pivot on which the story will turn too - and which indeed, as you remember, was the grotesque tragicomic conception that first encouraged me. I have put a child and a good-natured foolish man, in relations that seem to me very funny. I have made the opening, I hope, in its general effect exceedingly droll. You will not have to complain of the want of humour as in the Tale of Two Cities. ![]() " The book will be written in the first person throughout, and during these first three weekly numbers you will find the hero to be a boy-child, like David. Story ForetoldĬharles Dickens wrote to his friend and advisor, John Forster, telling his plan for Great Expectations: Many of the locations in Great Expectations are featured on my map of Charles Dickens' Rochester/Chatham. ![]()
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