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Great Expectations
Drama, Romance
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy lavish literary romance shaped by class anxiety, thwarted desire, and morally complicated coming-of-age.
- Tone
- melancholic, romantic, bleak
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- social class, ambition, unrequited love, emotional damage, self-discovery
- Setting
- nineteenth-century England, rural marshes and urban drawing rooms
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