Great Expectation

Great Expectation  – The story begins with young Pip in a churchyard, where he is accosted by an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch, whom he helps by stealing food and a file from his sister’s home. Pip is later sent to the home of the wealthy and eccentric recluse, Miss Havisham, who still wears her decaying wedding dress after being jilted years ago. There, he meets and falls in love with her beautiful but cold adopted daughter, Estella, who is being raised to break men’s hearts as revenge. Pip becomes ashamed of his “common” life as a blacksmith’s apprentice with his kind brother-in-law, Joe Gargery.