Through such details Dickens indicates at the outset that guilt is a part of the ironic bond between Pip and Magwitch which is so unpredictably to alter both their lives.

In Great Expectations, Pip, with accomplices, rows Magwitch from London downriver in expectation of waylaying a regular steamer ( whilst under way in the Lower Hope, off Gravesend ) bound for Hamburg.

Australia features prominently in Great Expectations, and New South Wales is where Pip ’ s benefactor Abel Magwitch made his fortune.

One evening, after Pip returned from a visit at Miss Havisham's, Herbert tells him a story that Magwitch told him: Magwitch had a wife once and they had a child, a girl, whom Magwitch loved dearly.

Pip keeps quiet, and only tells Magwitch, on his deathbed, that his child lives.

His wife told him she'd kill the child ( because the child was what Magwitch loved the most, and Molly wanted him to suffer for what he did to her ) and, as much as he knows, she did.

John Hollis was a fine and versatile character actor for BBC Radio, his roles notably including Magwitch in Great Expectations, Leonard Bast in Howards End, Conan Doyle's Inspector Lestrade and Shakespeare's Bardolph.

Ten years later, Dickens's Great Expectations contains many Hamlet-like plot elements: it is driven by revenge-motivated actions, contains ghost-like characters ( Abel Magwitch and Miss Havisham ), and focuses on the hero's guilt.

* In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Abel Magwitch refers to returning to England from Botany Bay.

After a preliminary hearing in the Byzantine world of Kafka's The Trial and saving Abel Magwitch from drowning before the beginning of Great Expectations, Havisham and Thursday part ways and the latter character enters " The Raven " and retrieves Jack Schitt.

She takes Thursday on as an Apprentice, and one of their first assignments together is to circumvent a plot hole in Great Expectations as it is never explained in Dickens's novel how the heavily-manacled Magwitch was able to make it to land from the prison ship where he was incarcerated.

He had a prominent role as Calpurnius Piso in the BBC's acclaimed adaptation of Robert Graves ' I, Claudius ( 1976 ); he played Magwitch in the BBC's 1981 adaptation of Dickens ' Great Expectations, and the jailer in The Secret Life of Albie Sachs.

She was the child of Jaggers's maidservant Molly, a gypsy at that time, and Abel Magwitch.

At first, this image terrifies the narrator, but gradually he determines a logical explanation for it, that someone outside had thrown the dead cat into the bedroom to wake him up during the fire, and begins to miss Pluto.

Tweedlepunch finally confronts Gilfain and spins a wild ghost yarn that terrifies Gilfain into admitting that he has stolen the perfume business.

Harryhausen then returned to Columbia and Charles Schneer to make 20 Million Miles to Earth ( 1957 ), about an American spaceship returning from Venus that crashes into the ocean near Italy, releasing an on-board alien egg specimen which washes up on shore and soon hatches a creature that, in Earth's atmosphere, rapidly grows to gigantic size and terrifies Rome.

After a few weeks the owner threatens to fire the bum in favor of a " real " geek, and the fear of sobering up terrifies the bum into actually biting the chickens.

However, after Jake knocks him into a pit with a dangerous monster, the battered Huntsman displays a new intensity that terrifies his peers and vows to destroy every last dragon on Earth.

The man, who introduces himself as Caleb, terrifies her and burns his mark into her neck.

The arrival of Sherman's troops in Clayton County terrifies those slaves who have not already departed or been conscripted into the labor force by the Confederacy.

The incident terrifies Gunray, who realizes for the first time that he is dealing with a very dangerous man.

While searching for her one day, Bambi has his first encounter with " He "— the animal's term for humans — which terrifies him.

Some of his more notable later performances include: Money Train, as a psychotic pyromaniac who terrifies toll booth operators ; Lone Star, in a rare leading role as a Texas sheriff charged with solving a decades-old case ; as Deputy Dwayne Looney in director Joel Schumacher's 1996 film A Time to Kill ( based on the John Grisham novel ); and as a homophobic Marine Corps colonel in American Beauty, a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Her discovery that she might indeed have feelings for Karen overwhelms and terrifies her.

His subsequent tirade and blatant disregard for security terrifies the usually ebullient Captain ; he even lifts the director of security barring his way onto a coat hook.

After his death, Camber's actions during his life serve as the basis for a towering notoriety that either terrifies or inspires future generations.

Emerson remains charmingly oblivious to his few character flaws ; he sees himself as the only rational, even-tempered person in the family ; he has a boyish enthusiasm for automobiles and motorcycles, though he is mechanically inept, and the recklessness of his driving terrifies his family ; he always seizes any opportunity to go about in disguise, especially with a false beard, though it is impossible for anyone to be fooled by them.

Mr. Jaggers habitually bites his forefinger, a gesture which conveys both contempt and the inscrutable abstractedness that half fascinates, half terrifies all who have dealings with him.

The Monster then confronts Bozo by grabbing him by the face and terrifies him by revealing himself as Melvin from the accident to a horrified Bozo.

Parry is also continually haunted by a hallucinatory Red Knight, who terrifies him whenever he shows any confidence.

Homer builds him a new bed shaped like a maniacal clown, which terrifies Bart.

As his first activity, Burns has Homer throw silver dollars from the top of a tall building, which instead of winning him popularity just causes injuries and terrifies the crowds below.

" When he opens them he finds a monstrous-looking Maestro-demon head which says " HELLO " and terrifies him, and he runs away scared ( leaving a comically Mayor-shaped hole in the glass door ).

What terrifies him the most is the fact that the virus has affected and only affected the people with the Beta Test Run on the Telecon system.

Hook's personality is far closer to Barrie's original character ; he terrifies his crew, brutalizes his enemies, has no fear ( except where the crocodile is concerned ), shows great intelligence, and is passionate about plays by William Shakespeare.

When she refuses, he uses force: he breaks her concentration and terrifies her by throwing her out of the airplane, catching her with the airplane, and he uses this to kiss her.

Lludd's kingdom is beset by three menaces: the Coraniaid, a demonic people who can hear everything ; a terrible scream that is heard every May Eve that terrifies the people ; and the continual disappearance of the provisions of the king's court.

The following morning as Mrs. Foster prepares to take her car to the airport, her husband announces that he should be dropped off at the club on the way, which terrifies her, it being somewhat out-of-the-way.

A Reverend Mother has access only to her female lineage in Other Memory ; her male line is unavailable to her, present as a dark void that terrifies her.

The till is old, and an overtightened spring on its drawer terrifies Granville and Arkwright, as it results in many a close call as the till snaps shut, almost trapping the pair's fingers.

John Gielgud played the priest whose lengthy sermon on Hell terrifies the teenage Stephen.

" Her 1998 book Evermeet: Island of Elves chronicles the whole history of Evermeet and featured the return of Arilyn and Danilo: " Evermeet still terrifies me, but I think it turned out to be a good story.

Boyle, meanwhile, terrifies the mousy bank manager Young with the threat that the mob will suspect the robbery to be an inside job.

Ichika is easily scared, and the thought of ghosts terrifies her, especially when she first sees Manatsu in a mirror they find in the school's oldest building.

He catches and terrifies Will and Jim until Mr. Dark intervenes.

" To this day it still terrifies me ," Scully said.