In Depth Book Review GREAT EXPECTATIONS

I really like Pip. I felt sympathy for him for the way his sister raised him, so roughly, by hand. I could relate to so many of Pip’s feelings. I liked Pip.

Great review

this helped so much !!

Such a fantastic review. I had so many aha moments listening to this. Passing it on to my family who have just finished reading Great Expectations with me. Thank you ever so much

Good review. Bit skeptical that dislike of Pip=dislike of my own station in life. I'm not following the logic. He dislikes parts of himself later in the book.

thank this was really great piece of work

I read this for high school many years back and it never made a lick of sense till you explained it. For one thing, I was never much of a reader, and I also remember that I had a horrendous time trying to decipher the old English phrases.

I can’t stop myself to paise you , really the way you explained great expectations is marvellous and I had wanted this kind of explanation which gave us a depth knowledge of a novel .however , in a novel plot is the society and characters are we !!.
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Having just finished this book, I found this deep review excellent.

Brilliant. I just finished this wonderful classic. Great commentary.

Thank you for having good volume in your video recording. Other people who reviewed G.E. had terribly faint volume. Going to be reading G.E. soon, my friend. :D

How enlightening. I have loved it... a new angle. I first studied the book at Glasow University some 50 plus years ago and listened to Philip Hobsbaum lecturing on the novel. I loved it then but after listing to Tristan I love it even more. Salutory that in a sense we are all like Pip.... the trinkets dont bring us happiness.

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This was fantastic. I just read Great Expectations for the first time and I’ll definitely rewatch it before I reread the book. But I absolutely loved the book and never once disliked Pip.

Thank you very much for your indepth observations. I enjoyed listening to them.👍Great Expectations is worth all the hype! ❤

Amazing. I have bought this book to read and having heard this, I can't wait. Thank you so much Tristan.

But what about the ending?

I think that basically life (commerce, happiness, purpose) is leaving England, the great expectation of this particular country is coming to an end.
That’s the meaning of this book.what remains is a once was Waite and round but now yellow and boney, without sustenance, hope or glorious future. Only a glorious past is all. No more great expectations.
And it’s better to let it go and know it for what it is a mean ruined and no good ugly old woman.

Finished the book a couple months ago, and although i was fascinated by it, i got that sense that i was missing something of its deeper meaning. So glad to have found this video.. Really great explanation and definitely a fun watch, your didactics is awesome! Greetings from Brazil and thank you for the video!

Yay! I finally finished this remarkable literally journey. Dickens spares no expense with his writing!

I am currently re-reading Great Expectations. I sometimes like Pip and sometimes not BUT I think he is (like all of us) in the throws of growing up and making mistakes. It is a fine balance between wanting to be better and do better and wanting more in life, whether for yourself or others, while also not being ashamed of your roots and most kids go through that process. Which is a lesson Pip has to learn and unfortunately, can only be learned by experience, by falling form grace.
Pip is ignorant and a bit of an idiot, but he is not malicious; whereas Miss H is stuck and most definitely cruel. I also think the things that are done to us as kids form patterns in our subconscious that make us act in ways we wouldn't normally have had someone not bullied, hurt, or shamed us in some way (fate, or just life?). But again, it is how we walk out of those lessons (or at all, Pip vs Miss H vs Jo) that make all the difference. I would have loved to learn Estella's story though. I think hers is the real tragedy because she is a kid being warped and manipulated by a sour old lady and if she had been a real person, would she ever have been able to shed that brainwashing that she had been a victim of.

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Im 19 old and i' ve seen the movies countless times and read the book another 4. Nonetheless i cant still get a grasp of the lesson that it passes. I feel as an abstract idea, a cloud or a mist is clinging above my head and it hasn't yet clear, making me confused! The video was great and i loved your thoughts but still im unable to understand the finer line of what we should do with our expectations ?!

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I’ll admit, I didn’t love Great Expectations and I didn’t like Pip, just as you said. I knew I’d missed something so I was so happy to see your in depth review of the book. Now I can re think what I’ve just finished. Thank you for all your videos!

I had great expectations coming into this video and I was not disappointed. What a masterful review.

Hi, found this video because I wanted to compare my thoughts with someone more educated. You've given no spoilers, (so I'll try not to be explicit but reader be warned) but the end of this book left me first oddly disappointed, and then, the longer I sat with it, I felt it was the more interesting way for it to end than what I expected. (So, was I the victim of my own expectations? ) It seems like people were mostly given the reward they earned through their appreciation of the love given to them, and their own freely given love. Pip, through everything, was saved by the kindness he had already earned and returned, and which was what guided him as he realized what he had done in time to make amends. I thought Estella suffered even more from lack of a good role model and made an interesting compliment to him throughout the book because she seemed to have more self-awareness than Pip. Clearly, they are both on one side of a coin together if the reverse side held Joe and Biddy, who never lost sight of what was important. Thank you for the video, which gave me some extra things to put in my hat as I continue to roll this story around in my mind.

This was awesome. As an English teacher, sometimes I move around, and although I have read many, it has been years. This was perfect to help bring to my remembrance the depths of classics.

This book’s movie came on Brit Box on my next in queue, and it speaks to me as I write about my experience with great expectations in the area of marriage specifically. I relate to Pip, and the older woman wearing the bride gown. I don’t want to be the older woman. I suppose I want to be like Pip. But does Pip end up happy in the end of the book?

You know, I disliked Joe much more than I disliked Pip. I did not dislike Pip at all actually, for he was quite clear (I mean the narrator Pip), where he wronged being young and misled. Yet Joe did not protect the small child from his wife's abuse. Now I wonder, what does it tell about me, me disliking Joe?...

My expectations are that due to public pressure due to media exposure (and whatever investigation is occurring), charges will be dropped, my record cleared, and my licensure reinstated. I will also be getting a hefty sum from various lawsuits including one related to a local news station saying I was preparing bombs and suggesting there was "evidence" of that, so if others are actually seeing that, I have already been told I will profit from it.

Wow I just discovered this channel. This is amazing

This book has been important for me ever since middle school. I sympathize with Pip I feel that I am quite like him. You got the theme spot on. The depth of your analysis has given added dimension. Thank you for that!

Hi! My name is Roman. I live in Kyiv, Ukraine. Thank you for the great review! I've read the book and was very much impressed but I have noticed other ideas that Dickens imbedded into his novel. So I decided to lay it out in a written form. I would like to share it with you if you let me know how I can send it to you. Thanks!

I love this book.

I am SO sorry Dickens had't finised " The Mystery of Edwin Drud".

I liked and pityed Pip and Magwich from the beginning to end. They were victims of life circumstances.

Beautiful analyses! Thank you!

Youre soooooo amazing Tristan!! I have a test tomorrow and whoa.. boy did i love this!! Thank you so much 😭😭😭😭💗💕💕💕 so underrated

That was excellent

I've always wondered if Miss Havisham ever bathed.

Superb analysis and summary

Masterpiece destroyed by the ending. He apparently re-wrote the ending. Google says there are 3 different endings. Maybe Chapter 59 never should have been.

superb

I loved your review !! I'm an actor and decided to check out your video before preparing my audition for this play. It has been very helpful ❤❤ I'll let you know how it goes 😊😊

I just started reading the classics a few years ago. Great Expectations was only my second such book after The Count of Monte Cristo. You hit the nail on the head in your descriptions, I mostly recogniized the same thoughts that you profoundly brought to the surface, I felt that ironically that it was Magwich (a truly Dickensonian name) that did in fact met his great expectations, Thank you. I truly enjoy listening to you . I wish that I had more time to read but I am an extraoridarily busy physician.

I am currently reading "Great Expectations", for the very first time. I have a theory that Charles Dickens was a socialist, or was at least sympathetic to socialism.