Plot overview — Great Expectations — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Plot overview
Introduction
What you need to know
The whole novel in brief, stage by stage, and how Pip's three stages of expectations give it its shape.
Where each stage's turning point falls (Jaggers's news in Chapter 18, Magwitch's return in Chapter 39), and how the secret of Pip's benefactor drives the plot.
