Herbert Pocket is a young man of similar age to Pip - their backgrounds, however, are different. He is a relative of Miss Havisham's and Pip first meets him when the two boys have a fight in the ...

Are-imagining of the beloved Dickens classic, “Great Expectations,” fully devised and adapted by the cast and creative team ...

Great Expectations introduced the narrator "Pip" and his story to the world, as well as other memorable characters including Joe Gargery the blacksmith, Abel Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella.

Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife "Mrs. Joe". When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under ...

Great Expectations (1861) in particular demonstrates Dickens’ ludic credentials. A sense of progression is common in the Bildungsroman or “progress” novel, but Pip seems to embody ideas of ...