Abstract Great Expectations is Bildungsroman, which shows the process of Pip’s growth and vividly reveals his desire for decent life, and shows the various factors of affecting the development of Pip’s personality. At last, after disillusioning, his nature returned back. Pip's characters were well reflected in his life, and his personality and life experience were closely related. On the one hand, personality influences his life, and on the other hand, he gradually became mature in his life. After experiencing a moral and spiritual reflection, Pip rebirthed, and ran to the new life with his beloved woman. Novel combines inpidual life and social criticism, and reveals the ugly of 19th-century British capitalism society, and also reveals that the capitalist ruthlessly exploited the working people. Pip had undergone different life stages and he went back to country. At last, he formed new thinking of life and the world.53823
Keywords: Great Expectations; bildungsronman; growth; capitalism
摘要《远大前程》是一部成长小说,展现了主人公皮普的成长过程,生动地揭示了他对上等人生活的渴望以及幻想破灭后本性的回归,分析影响皮普性格发展的各种因素。他的性格与其生活经历密切相关,一方面,性格影响着他的生活,另一方面,他在生活中逐渐走向成熟,经历了道德煎熬与精神反思,皮普重获新生,和他心爱的人奔向新生活。小说将个人的生活与社会批判结合起来,资本主义渗透到社会的各个角落,资本家大肆地剥削着贫苦的人民,人民生活困苦不堪。皮普经历了不同的人生阶段,回到了农村,他对人生,世界有了新的认识。
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毕业论文关键字:《远大前程》;成长小说;成长;性格;资本主义
Contents
1. Introduction....1
2. Literature Review...1
3. Bildungsroman....2
3.1 Definition of Bildungsroman..2
3.2 Bildungsroman and Great Expectations.....3
4. Process of Pip’s Growth4
4.1 Pip’s Life in Country.. 4
4.2 Pip’s Life in London...6
5. Cultural Significance of Pip’s Growth..8
5.1 Capitalism and Culture..11
5.2 Pip’s Self-discovery and Introspection.11
6. Conclusion...............12
Works Cited...14
1. Introduction
Charles Dickens is one of the most famous realist novelists in the Victorian Britain in the 19th century. Great Expectations is his representative work. This novel is a Bildungsroman novel which has educational significance published in the later years of Dickens. The novel describes the Victorian society, and reveals the ugly of the so-called upper class for money and status, at the same time; it praises the laboring people at the bottom of the England society. This novel describes the character, Pip’s growth history, and shows Pip’s personality changes with the change of the surrounding environment.
The novel is a book that has educational significance, the book around the theme that a young man who pursues his dream and which is disillusioned. This novel profoundly reveals the snobbery of concomitant with the money and status which plays a bad role in a person's growth process. (Zhu Wan, 2003: 1) The hero Pip desires to live a life of gentleman, and he goes after fame and money. This novel describes the character, Pip’s growth history, and shows Pip’s personality changes with the change of the surrounding environment.
2. Literature Review
At present, there are many scholars both at home and abroad studying the character of Pip, the hero of the Great Expectations, and most of the scholars analyze Pip’s characters from the most basic four stages of Pip’s growth – “pure--depravity --reflection--mature”, for example, in Lishirong’s work,” the growth subject of "great expectations" reveals the Pip's growth process in the Great Expectations. Through describing the process of the disillusionment of Pip’s Great Expectations, reveals the cost and the true spirit of life. The author demonstrates that the humanity plays a huge role in the process of Pip’s growth from Pip’s four stages. (Li Shirong, 2007:2.) Li Shirong is Similar to Xu Yufeng. In his work "Learn to Compromise to Mature - the Analysis of the hero, Pip’s growth process in Great Expectations, around Pip’s four different stages of growth, Xuyufeng analyzes the process of Pip’s growth from naive to vanity, and finally return to the nature, and demonstrates that Pip have learnt to be mature in compromise. This paper will analyze Pip’s character from his five important stages in life, and there is a corresponding person influencing Pip's character in each stage. (Xu Yufeng, 2005:3)源/自:751:;论-文'网www.751com.cn