Recent content by insanity00

I appreciate the clear and cogent response. I would like to respond in kind. I did not mean to suggest that you were taking your stance for the heck of it. I intend/ed to suggest that your stance may not be as certain as many have claimed it to be. It seems from what I could find about the...

Of course that is a matter of opinion. Clearly the advice Dickens got was in the spirit of a happier ending that would fit with the story. The fans must have liked it, he wasn't ostracized. However I think it is a sell-out moment in Dickens writing career. Overall though, the argument against...

Unfortunately, the original version did not provide both endings. Only the hackneyed ending went out, and even in modern copies that ending is in the book while the original is tacked onto the end. Though I'm not sure many people (including Dickens) were worried about the artistic vision of...

So, I have yet to see this brought up, I figured it would be worth pointing out. Has anyone read Great Expectations? If not, it is widely considered one of Charles Dickens' greatest novels. Whether or not you have read it, I bring it up because it was in many ways similar to modern video...