This document provides a comparison between the novels Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. Both novels have protagonists who are orphan boys who fall in love. The plot of each novel is full of mystery, failure, dreams and journeys. The protagonists Pip from Great Expectations and Tom from Tom Jones struggle greatly. Both love stories involve a long struggle that ends in the protagonists being committed or married to their love interests. The themes of the novels include love, the struggles of the protagonists, life as a bastard boy, love triangles, suspense, and betrayal.

1. SMT. S.B.GARDI DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH
 Branch:- M.A.(English)
 Subject:-The Neo-Classical Literature
 Topic:- Comparison between the Great
Expectation andTom Jones
 Prepared by:-
Sojitra Ami (PG15101034)

2. Index
 Great Expectation
 Tom Jones
 Protagonists of Novels
 Plot of Novels
 Love story of Protagonist
 Themes of Novels
 Reference

3. Great Expectation:-
 Charles Dickens
 Divided in to nine monthly
section
 Published in 1860-’61
 Numbers of characters

4. Tom Jones
 Henry Fielding
 Divided in to eighteen
books.
 Published in 1749
 Numbers of character and
events

5. PROTAGONISTS OF NOVELS
Great Expectation Tom Jones
•Pip as protagonist •Tom as protagonist
•An orphan boy •A founding boy
•His love for Estella •His love for Sophia
•From middle class family •From middle class family
•His visit to London •His visit to London

6. Plot of novels
Full of mystery, failure, dreams, journey etc..
The protagonist suffer a lot
The story run at many places
All the characters have wide role to perform
Series of incidents

7. Love is…
If she beats you love her, if she
fevers you love her, love is
unconditional, self devotion,
utter submission……

9. Love story of protagonist
 In Great Expectation
the hero Pip fall in love
with Estella.
 Both were committed
at the end after a long
struggle.

10. Cont…
 InTom Jones the hero
fall in love with Sophia
Western.
 Finally they both get
merry at the end of
novel.

11. Theme of novels
 Theme of love
 Struggle of protagonist
 Life of bastard boy
 Love triangle
 Suspense
 Betrayed

12. REFERENCE
 The great expectation by Charles Dickens
 http://www.google.com/images/the.great&e
xpectations-
by%charles%dickens%characters

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