Two questions: 1) Do you have the third video from this series, "Scenes from 'Great Expectations'?" 2) If you do, could you please upload it onto RU-vid?
Thank you very much for posting this discussion. The novel is such a great mystery. The BBC 2012 version had some good and not so good parts. I like the version made in the Soviet Union in 1980. There, at the end Datchery turns into an investigator and presents various options and the actors listen to him.
After 14 years of meticulous research, I have been able to substantiate my theory that Charles Dickens was not the original author of "A Christmas Carol." My paper on this subject, newly-revised and extended as of 10/23, may be accessed at this URL: www.ial.goldthread.com/MFW_APW_Carol.pdf
Thank you so much for this conversation. I am hoping you will discuss Boffin's seeming transformation. I understand I am not the only person flummoxed by the misleading portrayal of Boffin's emerging villainy, and why in the world that weak ending in the face of what could have been such an amazing study on wealth's impacts on a personality. Please do discuss this! Thanks again.
THANK YOU so much for making this lecture available. It's PERFECT for my Gothic Imagination course that I'm teaching this semester. I appreciate your generosity in sharing your research as well as, of course, your insight into Frankenstein.
Hi ... I'm currently in a Zoom group that is reading (out loud) John Bunyan's PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. When (in Part I) we got to the Man in the Iron Cage, it sounded so familiar! I think that Dickens was very much under the influence of this, when he wrote the Marley's Ghost passage that you read here. Agree?
Great find, Tom ! Dickens could certainly have been thinking of the man in the iron cage in Pilgrim's Progress -- the emphasis on eternity is the same, and the motif of being confined within "narrow limits." I definitely agree.
I just recently subscribed to this channel. What a find! And in my own town! Looking forward to a take on Our Mutual Friend, which I am exceedingly puzzled by!
After discarding Dickens at age 12 as too sad and depressing, I now rediscovered his work and can't have enough of his novels. Our Mutual Friend is a jewel. Thanks for sharing your very original insights with us!
