Great expections ending....(spoilers)

XIE323 · 08-20-2008, 12:03 AM

I didnt like the ending of great expections.

Heres how it ended:

Quote:

Pip revisits Satis House, now in ruins, and meets a now softened Estella with the "freshness of her beauty gone but its indescribable majesty and its indescribable charm remaining" and sees "no shadow of another parting from her".

And I took from the last quote that he will develop a bond with Estella and they will possibly end up with each other and marry.

So why did Dickens change the ending from one(I liked the first ending cuz its more beliviable and apporite) in which they part forever to one where they stay together and apparently live happily ever after?

s-jakn · 11-13-2008, 05:40 PM

The ending was changed from the original because the victorians liked happy endings and romance so they disaproved of the ending.dickens was therefor forced to change the ending to a romantic happy one to satisfy his Victorian audience.

RG57 · 11-13-2008, 09:32 PM

I prefer the original because not all stories in life end happily after after

mona amon · 11-13-2008, 10:42 PM

I too like the original ending.

duverfred · 01-11-2009, 11:45 AM

when it says they will not part again, this might mean they will never see each other again after that, just a thought.

Lady Marian · 01-11-2009, 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duverfred

when it says they will not part again, this might mean they will never see each other again after that, just a thought.

That sounds to me like something Dickens would pull on an unsuspecting audience of hopeless romantics.

Bobcat · 08-06-2009, 03:11 PM

I thought the second ending always had two implied outcomes. Depending on the viewpoint of the reader, it could be taken to mean that he never saw Estella again or never again parted from her. I believe that was Dickens's intention, too? To appease all of his audience, including his "hopeless romantics."

I also prefer the original ending; it seems to suit the overall tone of the story much better.

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11-13-2008, 09:32 PM	#3
RG57 Hardback Copy! Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Somewhere in my own mind. Posts: 129 Blog Entries: 4	I prefer the original because not all stories in life end happily after after __________________ Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation [Prester John - John Buchan].

01-11-2009, 11:45 AM	#5
duverfred Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1	Not necessarily happy ever after when it says they will not part again, this might mean they will never see each other again after that, just a thought.

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11-13-2008, 05:40 PM	#2
s-jakn Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1	The ending was changed from the original because the victorians liked happy endings and romance so they disaproved of the ending.dickens was therefor forced to change the ending to a romantic happy one to satisfy his Victorian audience.

11-13-2008, 10:42 PM	#4
mona amon Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: India Posts: 262	I too like the original ending.

08-06-2009, 03:11 PM	#7
Bobcat Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1	I thought the second ending always had two implied outcomes. Depending on the viewpoint of the reader, it could be taken to mean that he never saw Estella again or never again parted from her. I believe that was Dickens's intention, too? To appease all of his audience, including his "hopeless romantics." I also prefer the original ending; it seems to suit the overall tone of the story much better.