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Watching a new adaption of Great Expectations on television...it was the only novel I read between October 1979 and May 1980...... I am amazed how much I understood and recalled ... Never liked the Pip thought he was a selfish [censored]....the only characters I liked were Magwith and Joe the black smith.. There is now I see a a sense of Helgian dielectic.
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Re: Great Expectation (Tuffy I mentioned u)
It was a BBC custom drama. I normally detest them.. I hate Downton Abbey.
Gillian Anderson was mrs Haversham... Ray Winstone gave his Manley performance as usual... The story does end as a cliche.. I seem to recall that Joe helped in the get away...
One thing I recalled of while watching was a brilliant comment that Tuffy made that made me re asses history... That slavery and it veral brutality was not an exception to post columbia era.. It was normal... I know Eric Williams made the same postulation Tuffy but we had a thread on here that was one of the three that made me reasses my own opnions!
The treatment of the Magwitch and the contempt for the workers was normal.... This series highlighted the brutality...When I read this book (as a school project) it did not compute.. Here the glimpses of Newgate only reinforced social injustice.. The divergent of sentence for the same crime shows the class disparities at the time.. the visit to the whorehouse ( not in the book).. dispelled the moral superiority claim and reinforces how Britian in general veiws that era now... Licentiousness...
Mrs Havesham psychological brutality... Pip uncle self contempt and social climbing.. Reinforced the fact the only decent person was Joe the Blacksmith, who frankly was simple and sweet... Was it dickens intention to give the message that one has to be simple to have a moral center ????
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