Great Expectation as a successful novel of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was working as the editor of a weekly magazine called ‘All the year Round’. Charles Dickens first published Great Expectations’ as a serial story in 1860. In 1861 it was published as a separate book.

Charles Dickens has given a very appropriate title to his novel ‘Great Expectations’. It means ‘Great hopes’ Pip’s is the hero of the novel. He is very poor. Suddenly an unknown man helps him. Pip’s hopes rises. He has great expectations. He has hopes to become rich. He likes to become a gentleman. 

The novel shows the three different stages of these great expectations. First it shows Pip before these hopes comes into his life. Then it shows how he behaves during it and finally it shows Pip as a different man when all these great expectations are over. This novel shows the ups and downs of Pip’s great expectation.

The novel begins in Chatham. The author had passed his childhood there. He knew the place very well. Therefore the opening scenes of the novel are described in a very realistic way. Dickens has shown London and the life of the people of London in a very appropriate way.