Great Expectations' Pip star opens up on 'exhausting' scenes with Estella co-star Great Expectations has been adapted by Steven Knight for the BBC and continues with episode three as Pip is given ...

Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” is the original and still the ultimate rags-to-riches-to-rags story. ... She makes you see why Pip finds Estella inscrutable and still dizzyingly appealing.

The film explores Pip's transformation and the societal pressures of Victorian respectability, ultimately leading to a realization of the true nature of his expectations. Keywords Great ...

Pip (Jeremy Irvine) pines for Estella (Holliday Grainger) in Charles Dickens’s familiar tale, reimagined once more in Mike Newell’s “Great Expectations.” (Johan Persson) There's a reason ...

GCSE; AQA; Characters - AQA Estella in Great Expectations. Great Expectations has a wealth of memorable characters whom appear in the novel and interact with the hero, Pip, influencing his ...

There’s a reason why the book “Great Expectations” has inspired at least two dozen films, plays, television shows and literary spinoffs, ranging from David Lean’s Oscar-winning 1946 film ...

Knight was drawn to "Great Expectations" because of the similarities he saw between his life and that of the main character. "Pip is blacksmith's son, and so am I," he said. "I was expected to ...

Jeremy Irvine is appealing as the adult Pip, conveying a low-key vulnerability that suits the part. Holliday Grainger is convincing as the beautiful older Estella, the object of Pip's lifelong desire.

The titular "great expectations" refers to a mysterious financial gift rendered upon Pip. It's darkly ironic, like much of Dickens's work. Pip, an orphan apprenticed to a blacksmith, has no ...

Great Expectations: A "Masterpiece Classic" presentation. Part 1 at 9 p.m. Sun. Part 2 next Sun. on PBS. Assembling an all-star cast for a new PBS adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' best-known ...

Great Expectations follows young Pip (played by Fionn Whitehead) as he tries to transform from a blacksmith's boy to a gentleman in order to become rich and win the affections of Estella (Shalom ...