AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Paper 1
Prospects of receiving wealth or property in the future. In Great Expectations, the word also connects with Pip’s hopes for social advancement and love.
Revise: Plot overviewGreat Expectations follows Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, from an orphaned childhood on the Kent marshes to adult life in London and abroad. Pip tells his own story retrospectively: the older man remembers the ambitions and mistakes of his younger self. This makes the novel more than an account of what happened.
- Revise: Chapters 30 to 39