After this Pip returns to his original home at the blacksmith's. He intends to marry Biddy but he is too late – Joe has already proposed to her. Many years later Pip meets Estella again.

Pip's French improves under Biddy, Estella, and Miss Havisham's tutelage. Miss Havisham explains Pip's lesson: they are to pretend they are at a ball, and a lady who speaks only French is present.

Gone is the mannered Estella insulting Pip by quipping, “He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy,” or the escaped convict Magwitch grabbing Pip by his heels and yelling, “Keep still, you little ...

As Pip navigates the complexities of social status and personal relationships, he becomes increasingly obsessed with Estella, reflecting Miss Havisham's own tragic fixation on love and revenge.

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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 ...

After this Pip returns to his original home at the blacksmith's. He intends to marry Biddy but he is too late – Joe has already proposed to her. Many years later Pip meets Estella again.