In the following lessons, you will read and study the great classic novel Great Expectations.
You will answer questions and learn about this novel’s key elements.
You will play game quizzes reviewing this novel’s content.
You will complete a 3 minute timed quiz after each lesson.
Finally, you will complete a 30 minute timed quiz assessing your acquired learning for this course.
Novel elements in a ‘nut-shell’…
Plot: The essence of self-improvement
Setting: Mid-nineteenth-century London, England and its surroundings
Themes: Judgement, social stratification, love, victimization, compassion, redemption, integrity, deception
Major Characters:
Pip: an idealistic and naïve young orphan growing up and looking to ‘improve’ himself
Miss Havisham: The owner of the Satis House estate and a lonely affluent woman with a ‘grudge’
Estella: Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter and the cold hearted manipulative love of Pip’s life
Joe: Pip’s amiable and sincere brother-in-law and blacksmith
Biddy: Joe’s unpretentious and perceptive house worker who might have become Pip’s worthy love of his life
Magwitch: Pip’s mysterious but compassionate ‘criminal’ benefactor
Herbert Pocket: Pip’s good-natured friend in London who helps him mature
Jaggers: Pip’s somewhat secretive but effective lawyer guardian
