‘Great Expectations’ (1861) by Charles Dickens and Echoes of ‘Frankenstein’ (1818) by Mary Shelley

‘Great Expectations’ (2012) directed by Mike Newell

‘It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally…