Great Expectations Lesson Plan

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's penultimate completed novel. Pip's life story contains elements of Dickens's own life story. Like Pip, for instance, Dickens came to a period of success in London after humble beginnings and a turbulent childhood. When Dickens was a child, his father was imprisoned for debt, and Dickens was put to work in a factory. After his father's release, Dickens attended school in London and then rose to success, first as a reporter and then as a writer of fiction. Pip's relationship with Estella contains elements of Dickens's life, as well. In "An Introduction to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations," for instance, Phillip V. Allingham states that "the...