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RE: Cycle of Revenge: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Dear my lady @iskawrites !
I watched the movie Great Expectations!
I had a hard time understanding the content of Great Expectations because I didn't know much about Victorian British in the 19th century.
It was the first time I knew about caste society in British.
I felt that Miss Havisham was enjoying Pip's pain by interfering with Estella and Pip's love.
She grew old, always burning with her grief, pain, and vengeance over the betrayed wedding.
Pip loved Estella and wanted to marry her. However, it was impossible because Pip was of low status.
In this situation, Pip suddenly gets lucky when Abel Magwitch, who gave him food in his childhood, gives him a fortune to educate him as a gentleman.
After becoming a gentleman, Pip began to fall as he witnessed the hypocrisy, vanity, and lies of high society.
Watching Abel Magwitch give Pip money so he can be educated as a gentleman, I see some people always sacrificing for others.
I was moved by Pip's loyalty to Abel Magwitch.
I was able to discover British high society, which is outwardly gorgeous and beautiful, but inside is full of hypocrisy, greed, permissiveness, and lies!
Hey @goldgrifin007, you came and dropped all the spoilers šš
But it's fine. You are amazing. š
Your comment reminded me that I was happy I did not read the book until I was well advanced in age and understanding. I have a feeling I wouldn't have understood a thing if I wasn't.
But yes, everything you said is true. Miss Havisham was upset about being betrayed. But she was making sure she groomed Estella to pay every man in her life back for what Campeyson did to her.
What Pip found out by the time he got to the top of the ladder is clearly what everyone who gets to the top figures out. By the time any one of us gets there, we will find out terrible things about the rest of the people up there with us. It becomes lonely because you can't really say what you saw, or heard, nor do you have the power to change them.
It's an unending question for me. I wake up every day and ask, "What happens once I get to the top"?. I did ask a reputable person around me and he explained that once he got to the top he was asked to join a cult and when he refused based on his upbringing, a series of events and circumstances were set up by the people whose offer he rejected to bring him down.
Yes, they succeeded because when I met him he was starting life all over again.
So Pip found it too. He found out like you said that high society is outwardly gorgeous and beautiful, but inside is full of hypocrisy, greed, permissiveness, and lies!
Since I haven't seen the movie, the book is still imprinted in my heart. This morning when I saw the reading recommendation to be Great Expectations, all of the storyline came rushing through my mind.
Whatever series of circumstances brought Pip from being a blacksmith to meet Abel, Estella, Havisham, and finally becoming a gentleman is mostly the way the universe works. But what he thought was a society of good people soon turned out to be a nightmare for him because humans are selfish.
I am not discrediting your thoughts on the movie or book. Your thoughts are welcomed and you dotted all the 'i's and crossed the 't's. And I appreciate this.
Well, watching Magwitch sponsoring Pip to be educated as a gentleman, I thought he was doing this so Pip could live the life that he couldn't because of crime.
Maybe one of us is right. Maybe both of us. However, I guess I have to watch the movie to combine all of my thoughts and draw future conclusions.
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Dear @iskawrites !
Thank you for kind reply!
By the way, I haven't read the Great Expectations novels, only watched the movies.š
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