Mrs. Terry to me this video is about Dickens feelings for love...to me even though one of the other videos said that Dickens was a dark man i think that he still felt love because at the beginning of this video it shows Pip going back to Mrs. Havishams house to find Estella and they fall in love and get married and Pip and Estella live happily ever after.
This video was about how Charles had some difficulty writing this ending, and in his story, he didn't say whether or not Pip and Estella get married. Dicken's also would have ended it differently, but his friend-novelist persuaded him to keep on writing.
Charles Dickens wrote two ending the first one Dikens writes the from how honetly he feels of his story, but his friend/writer people wouldnt tke the ending so good so he changes it to second ending were readers can take it and find a meaning to it.
The movies do not portray the real ending of the what Carles Dickens wrote, but infact Dickens did not even know what he wanted the ending to be. He wrote two ending to Great Expectations neither of which are portrayed in the movies. He could have written many versions because he wanted it to be a love story but could not face love because of his brutal childhood, or mabye he was just indecisive.
The video tells us that (surprise surprise) Hollywood decided to change their movies' endings so that it had more of a 'Hollywood ending' where the two lovers kiss and ride off in the sunset. While this could have been a very loose and less subtle portrayal of Dickens’ second ending to Great Expectations (as persuaded by his friend Mr. Linton), in his original ending, the ending wouldn't have been up for debate. The ending he wanted to write was straight to point in which both main characters changed greatly; Pip for the worse, and Estella for the better. Since the public wouldn’t be able to handle an ending like that, according to his friend, Mr. Linton, Charles Dickens, not wanting to change his ending into something completely different than he wanted, choose a more obscure end, leaving the readers to make up their own gosh-darn ending since they wouldn’t want his.
I personally hate when a writer does this. I usually hate endings anyway because it means I have to stop reading a good story, but when the writer ends it on a note where we are only to assume everything good happens, my gears are ground into dust.
"Ground to dust" I like that...Hanging endings does the same to me. I want my stories to have conclusive endings, but sometimes, it is also good to let your imagination create the ending of a story.
This video was interesting because i didnt know charles dickes made an alternatie ending to the novel to please the audience. this video basically tells about this and of course how both novels differed in ending.
In this video charles dickens had so many ending to great expectation. He made so many because he couldnt decide which one to choose to please his audience. He wanted to find ways to please his audience and make them remember his story, so he came up with different ones and still to this day people dont know which is the best.
This video was great because I like the idea how Charles dickens made various ending just for the audience to understand and have a good idea about the story.
Mrs.Terry this video was very interesting. I like how they did not really know how dickens wanted to end the movie so there are different endings. It was confusing because I thought estella did not like Pip but they kiss at the end.
I learned that there was more than one ending. Dickens wanted them to live happily ever after because that's how most books end when really he should have made it different from most books, and made it so they didn't.
I learned that there were two completely different endings tothe book. In my opinion Dickens wanted it to have a "Hollywood" ending in which most books were written where it had a good happy ending, but he later wrote a second ending where the opposite happned, an ending that he viewed as a more realistic way of how things would have turned out.
This was really interesting and sort of confusing. The way Dickens describes Estella is that she has hatred for Pip. In the alternate ending it shows that she loves him.
I thought estella disliked pip. What a stange ending.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Terry to me this video is about Dickens feelings for love...to me even though one of the other videos said that Dickens was a dark man i think that he still felt love because at the beginning of this video it shows Pip going back to Mrs. Havishams house to find Estella and they fall in love and get married and Pip and Estella live happily ever after.
ReplyDeleteEvan, you need to give a specific comment on the video - what you think of or what you learned from the video.
ReplyDeleteGraham, good job!
This video was about how Charles had some difficulty writing this ending, and in his story, he didn't say whether or not Pip and Estella get married. Dicken's also would have ended it differently, but his friend-novelist persuaded him to keep on writing.
ReplyDeleteCharles Dickens wrote two ending the first one Dikens writes the from how honetly he feels of his story, but his friend/writer people wouldnt tke the ending so good so he changes it to second ending were readers can take it and find a meaning to it.
ReplyDeleteThe movies do not portray the real ending of the what Carles Dickens wrote, but infact Dickens did not even know what he wanted the ending to be. He wrote two ending to Great Expectations neither of which are portrayed in the movies. He could have written many versions because he wanted it to be a love story but could not face love because of his brutal childhood, or mabye he was just indecisive.
ReplyDeleteThis answers a question I had because last summer I read and watched the movie and they had two different endings.
ReplyDeleteThe video tells us that (surprise surprise) Hollywood decided to change their movies' endings so that it had more of a 'Hollywood ending' where the two lovers kiss and ride off in the sunset. While this could have been a very loose and less subtle portrayal of Dickens’ second ending to Great Expectations (as persuaded by his friend Mr. Linton), in his original ending, the ending wouldn't have been up for debate. The ending he wanted to write was straight to point in which both main characters changed greatly; Pip for the worse, and Estella for the better. Since the public wouldn’t be able to handle an ending like that, according to his friend, Mr. Linton, Charles Dickens, not wanting to change his ending into something completely different than he wanted, choose a more obscure end, leaving the readers to make up their own gosh-darn ending since they wouldn’t want his.
ReplyDeleteI personally hate when a writer does this. I usually hate endings anyway because it means I have to stop reading a good story, but when the writer ends it on a note where we are only to assume everything good happens, my gears are ground into dust.
"Ground to dust" I like that...Hanging endings does the same to me. I want my stories to have conclusive endings, but sometimes, it is also good to let your imagination create the ending of a story.
ReplyDeleteThis video was interesting because i didnt know charles dickes made an alternatie ending to the novel to please the audience. this video basically tells about this and of course how both novels differed in ending.
ReplyDeleteIn this video charles dickens had so many ending to great expectation. He made so many because he couldnt decide which one to choose to please his audience. He wanted to find ways to please his audience and make them remember his story, so he came up with different ones and still to this day people dont know which is the best.
ReplyDeleteThis video was great because I like the idea how Charles dickens made various ending just for the audience to understand and have a good idea about the story.
ReplyDeleteMrs.Terry this video was very interesting. I like how they did not really know how dickens wanted to end the movie so there are different endings. It was confusing because I thought estella did not like Pip but they kiss at the end.
ReplyDeleteI learned that there was more than one ending. Dickens wanted them to live happily ever after because that's how most books end when really he should have made it different from most books, and made it so they didn't.
ReplyDeleteI learned that there were two completely different endings tothe book. In my opinion Dickens wanted it to have a "Hollywood" ending in which most books were written where it had a good happy ending, but he later wrote a second ending where the opposite happned, an ending that he viewed as a more realistic way of how things would have turned out.
ReplyDeleteThis was really interesting and sort of confusing. The way Dickens describes Estella is that she has hatred for Pip. In the alternate ending it shows that she loves him.
ReplyDeletemiss terry this is fabio and i learned there was more than one ending and meaning to it that dickens wanted us to understand
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