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Essay Abstract
Gorden, Dustin and Timothy Lutz.
Great Expectations and Great Adaptation; the Classic Novel’s Notions of Identity as they Pertain to the Concept of Adaptation.
The essay first explores how Dickens’
Great Expectations
reinterprets his earlier work
Oliver Twist.
Several examples of character interaction are drawn on to support the
claim that the corruptible Pip is a realistic answer to the unrealistic naivety
of Oliver.
Through this, Pip’s search for identity is clearly defined as the quest to becoming a
“Gentle-man” as
opposed to a Gentleman. The essay goes on to show how the
identity themes of
Great Expectations
have been
adapted in the realms of film and
Television
since the silent era.
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