hello dear students welcome back to our video lesson once again with me your tutor abanitanoy i hope you all are doing well we will be taking up on class 12 fiction that is great expectations written by charles dickens so let's start with getting to know about something about the author all right now charles dickens was an english writer and social critique all right he created some of the world's best known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the victorian era literary critics believe that dickens great expectations to be his great work before we begin with the story i would like to introduce you to the main characters here okay there are so many characters in the fiction but i would like to introduce to you some of them all right so the first one first up we have the chief character that is phillip parip who calls himself pip okay and he is the protagonist of the novel peep all right he calls himself pip then he is also the narrator narrator of the novel all right and he is an orphan who lives with his sister and brother okay his sisters and brother is a missus and mr joe gargery all right now we have the next uh character miss havisham all right he is an eccentric old lady that means an unconventional you know strange lady okay with an unhappy love affair so this miss havisham he have he had a very you know unhappy love affair all right she was betrayed on her wedding day by her lover and so she decides to take revenge all right on every man and so she adopts a child as a weapon and use her to take revenge on men by breaking their hearts okay so we have estela the next one estella is the adopted daughter of miss havisham okay miss havisham adopts estela got it now uh um estella is a very beautiful lady but her upbringing is such that you know she was trained to break the hearts of every man by her adopted mother all right and she was she was never taught to love any man next up we have mrs missus and mr joe gargery okay mrs jogger jerry she's the sister of peep all right and she is more than 20 years older than pip she is presented as a street disciplinarian all right now we have mr joe gargery mr joe gergery is the husband of mrs joe gargery and he is the brother-in-law of pip okay as well as the blacksmith of the village he's also the best friend of peep peep and mrs sorry pip and mr joe gerdry they are best friends okay next up we have abell macwich abel mcwitch and compassion okay compassion these two both of them are convicts okay convicts are you know a person you know people who are who are found guilty of their criminal offenses okay and they are partners in crime these two okay compassion and a bell abel mcwitch they're convicts next we have pd pd all right pity just like peep she is also an orphan they grew up together and pity helps peep in her i mean in his education okay now we have uncle uncle bumble uncle bamboo is a a pompous merchant you know one who considers himself so important self-importance all right and uncle of joe gargery now we have orlik orlik okay orlik is joe's apprentice at the forge force is the working place of joe gargery all right he's the blacksmith okay so we have orlik as his trainee or as his apprentice okay next we have herbert pocket herbert pocket herbert pocket is a good friend of peep when when peep was in london okay now let's start with the story in the novel it's it is very interesting i hope you all are you know excitedly waiting for this now peep a young orphan okay as i've mentioned earlier he lives with his brother-in-law and sister okay um pip a young orphan living with his sister in the marshes of kent okay that is the place where they live okay one day he sits in a cemetery all right one evening and he was looking at his parents tombstone then pip also had lost five siblings all right when they were fans suddenly and and escaped convict so they are too convicts like i've mentioned already right so one of the convicts okay and escaped he escaped from the prison okay this convict the one who escaped from the prison you know he springs up from behind a tombstone and grabs peep okay he grabs p and then orders him to bring wittles and a file whittles means food okay and file is a tool you know where you can cut the chain because the convict was already chained all right his feet and hands were chained so he needed something to cut it off all right okay then after that he threatens people okay he threatens that little boy pip is a little boy okay he threatens that little boy to bring him food and file all right and he also threatens him that he will have his heart and liver out if he does not obey him pip went home you know frightened just to get beating from his sister who was searching for him all this time because pip went to the cemetery you know without his sister's consent all right but his brother-in-law that is mr joe girdery you know tried to save him the next day the next day was christmas day all right so on the next day on christmas day pip steals the ordered items and then rushed to the convict he have to steal steal because if he tells this to his sister you know he he thought that it would not be safe so he did it you know without letting others know okay so he steals the items that were ordered by the convict and he then rushed to the config okay and hands him the food and fire but the fearsome conf convict you know is captured soon anyway all right so this convict since he ran away from the prison he was captured soon again all right and the convict protects peep by claiming to have stolen the items himself actually it was people who stole the food right but the convict he just wanted to save peep and told you know the others that he had stolen the item food okay i mean the stolen food all right then one day pip is taken to play at satis house okay satis house is the home of the wealthy miss havisham all right i told you about miss havisham right she's a wealthy woman all right and his the house that she is living in is called satis house all right and she is extremely eccentric all right he's extremely very unconventional and very strange and pete noticed that she was dressed in rich materials like satins and legs and silks she was actually wearing an old wedding gown okay and all the clock in the house at satis house have stopped at the same time okay that is 20 minutes to 9 which means 8 40. all right so during his visit peep he meets a beautiful young girl all right named estella i told you estella is the adopted daughter of miss havisham okay so estella she i mean estella was you know but estella was very rude to peep isla treated people and you know contemptuously that means the feeling that a person is you know worthless or beneath consideration here in satis house pip told mr vishen that he would like to become a blacksmith when he grows up okay nevertheless you know peep though he was treated badly by by estela he falls in love with her and dreams of becoming a wealthy gentleman so that he might be worthy of her alright now he changes his mind at first he wants to become a blacksmith right but after visiting miss havisham's home that he started his home he changes his mind to become a gentleman so that he could marry estella because estella is from a rich family he even hopes that miss havisham all right intends to make him a gentleman and marry him off to estela but his dreams and hopes are dashed are all shattered and broken after months of regular visit to satis house okay so once a week every wednesday pip used to visit satya's house to play with estella he is hired by mr vision to play with his adopted daughter okay now miss havisham tells him that you know she will help him fill out the papers necessary for him to become a blacksmith at joe gerjaris fortune that means at his brother-in-law's forge all right at that time pip was so sad now his dreams are all shattered because now instead of becoming a gentleman he's going to be at his brother-in-law's forge and then work there as a blacksmith now okay so with mr visham's guidance pip is now apprentice to jogadri now we have two apprentices that is orlik and pete now both of them are trainees of joe gargery okay now pipt worked you know unhappily struggling to better himself you know to better his education with the help of pd okay petey is also an orphan and pity and pip they grew up together and pity used to help people in his education okay and with that with the help of pity you know uh he pip tried to educate himself all right as well as he have to encounter jos you know malicious orlick also okay so orlik is always into you know doing harm to others now one night one night after an altercation that means you know a noisy argument or disagreement you know especially in public okay after an altercation with orlick pip sister that is mrs joe gargery is you know viviciously that means violently or cruelly attacked and became a mute invalid that means you know sickly or disabled cannot move all right so from heart signals that means from mrs joe gargery's signals pip deduces that means he comes to a conclusion with logical reasoning okay that olek was responsible for the attack okay now after that one day a lawyer that is mr jaggers all right a lawyer appears with a news and what is that news the news is about a secret benefactor benefactor is someone who gives money to someone who in need all right there is this secret benefactor who has given peop you know a large fortune okay and pip must go to london immediately to begin his education as a gentleman pip happily assumes that you know his hopes and his hopes will now come true and he assumes that miss havisham was the secret benefactor because so far he only knows miss havisham to be a wealthy person okay other than her she does i mean pip does not know anyone and she and she felt that you know miss havisham intends for him to marry estella that is why um pip feels that mr vishan wants him to become a gentleman that is what peep is assuming okay he was told that the secret benefactor will not be you know revealed to him all right until the person comes and show up himself or herself okay and people also should not ask anything about the secret benefactor okay now pip accepts the offer and was so excited now there in london peop befriends a young gentleman called herbert pocket okay herbert pocket herbert pocket and then uh jagger's low clerk mr wemmick so he befriends two of them all right actually pip and herbert they've already met when they were young when they were you know young boys that is at satis house they met earlier and from the first meeting itself they had their fight okay now they were very amazed to see each other you know recalling their first meeting now pip expresses disdain you know he expresses like this uh wordless for his former friend who is his former friend mr joe gargery mr jogger and people are best friend now okay but now he even ignores joe gargery because he's ashamed of joe gargery being as blacksmith okay pip is now in london okay training himself as a gentleman okay but he continues to opine after estella okay pip has not forgotten estella yet he is still after estelai he his dream is to become a gentleman his great expectations is to become a gentleman and then marry estella he furthers his education with the help of his tutor matthew pocket matthew pocket is the father of herbert pocket here matthew pocket will be the tutor of peep okay he will train peop how to become a gentleman all right at the same time hubbard himself helps peep how to act like a gentleman when pip turns 21 okay when he turns 21 and begin to receive an income from his fortune he will secretly help herbert that is his good friend herbert pocket they are living together okay he will secretly help herbert pocket with his business hubbard does not know that peep is helping him financially in his business but for now peep and hubbard they lead a fairly undisciplined life in london enjoying themselves and then running up debts okay once again orlik reappears in peeps life as miss havisham sporter porter meaning a person who is employed to carry luggage all right he reappears in peep's life as miss havisham supporter but orlik is promptly fired by mr jaeger's after pip reveals orlick's bad past okay orlick had a bad past all right okay for mrs joe sadly for mrs joe she dies all right and peep have to go home for the funeral feeling tremendous grief and remorse several years go by until one night you know a familiar figure you know barges into pip's house people was very familiar with the person and then he recognized him okay it was the convict the convict okay remember the convict whom um who peop you know who who threatened peep in the marshes it was the same convict okay he met he met the convict when he was a little boy the convict revealed himself that his name was abel mcwitch okay the convict's name was abell makwitch and he's uh you know and he announces that he is his secret benefactor when he announced that abel mcwitch you know is his secret benefactor pip was shocked he could not believe that because all this time he thought that it was miss havisham all right um then this um the convict tells peep that he was so moved by pip's kindness okay when pip was little you know people was little when he met the convict right so he he decided you know to dedicate his life in making peep as a gentleman so for that purpose he worked for many years in the south wales in australia where he had been sent as life prisoner but escaped to come back you know just to meet peep in london to see him as a gentleman okay all this time pip had been thinking that it was miss havisham who was his secret benefactor and thought that it was uh miss havisham who wanted estella and pip to get married after finding out that abel mcwitch was the secret benefactor his dream of marrying estella was all shattered pip was you know a penalty that means he was greatly dismayed or horrified you know but he feels morally bound to help makwitch escape from london the convict is persuaded that means a belmak which is pursued bought by the police and by compassion compassion is the other convict okay by con um he was pursued both by the police and compassion and the compassion is his former partner in crime okay we will end this uh fiction here today we will continue in the next class you may join me in the next class for the you know remaining story it's going to be very interesting now until then you all take care stay safe