1、 Great Expectations Charles DickensGroup Members:Dylan Lisa CassieGreat Expectations 远大前程 Author Character AnalysisTheme and Symbols PlotDoublesGreat Expectationssomething about the text Full Name:Charles John Huffam Dickens(early alias:Boz)Place of Birth:No.1 Mile End Terrace,Landport,Portsmouth En
2、gland Parents:Father-John Dickens(1785-1851);Mother-Elizabeth Dickens(1789-1863)Friday,February 7,1812 Thursday,June 9,1870 Charles Dickens 查尔斯狄更斯(18121870)Life experienceCharles Dickens was born on February 7,1812,and spent the first nine years of his life living in the coastal regions of Kent,a co
3、unty in southeast England.Dickenss father,John,was a kind and likeable man,but he was incompetent with money and piled up tremendous debts throughout his life.查尔斯狄更斯生于1812年二月七日，九岁前一直生活在英格兰东南部肯特郡的沿海地区。狄更斯的父亲约翰是个和蔼可亲的人，但不善理财，一生为巨额债务所累。Charles Dickens 查尔斯狄更斯Charles Dickens 查尔斯狄更斯Life experience When Di
4、ckens was nine,his family moved to London.When he was twelve,his father was arrested and taken to debtors prison.Dickenss mother moved his seven brothers and sisters into prison with their father,but she arranged for the young Charles to live alone outside the prison.狄更斯九岁那年，随家人移居伦敦。12岁时，其父因债务问题被抓进债
5、人监狱。他的母亲带着7个弟妹搬进监狱与父亲同住，却留狄更斯一人独自在狱外生活.Charles Dickens 查尔斯狄更斯(18121870)(18121870)Life experienceOutside,he worked with other children pasting labels on bottles in a blacking warehouse.Dickenss found the three months he spent apart from his family highly traumatic.Not only was the job itself miserabl
6、e,but he considered himself too good for it,earning the contempt of the other children.在外面他与别的孩子一起，在炭质颜料仓库给瓶子贴标签（炭质颜料是一种用来给火柴或肥料等产品做黑色素的人造煤烟）。狄更斯的工作不仅辛苦，而且他认为对他来说是大材小用，因而遭到其他孩子的白眼。狄更斯与家人分住了三个月，这段时间给他的心灵造成了巨大的伤害。Charles Dickens 查尔斯狄更斯(18121870)(18121870)Life experienceAfter his father was released fr
7、om prison,Dickens returned to school.He eventually became a law clerk,then a court reporter,and finally a novelist.His first novel,The Pickwick Papers,(匹克威克外传匹克威克外传)became a huge popular success when Dickens was only twentyfive.父亲出狱后，他重新回到学校。后来狄更斯先在一家律师事务所当职员，后来还做过法院书记官，最后才成为小说家。狄更斯25岁时完成了他的第一部小说匹克威
8、克外传，并且取得了巨大成功。Charles Dickens 查尔斯狄更斯(18121870)(18121870)Life experienceHe published extensively and was considered a literary celebrity until his death in 1870.后来他发又表了大量的小说，被誉为文学界的泰斗。他于1870年病逝。He lies buried in the Poets Corner in London.The words of his grave read as follows:”by his death one of En
9、glands greatest writers is lost to the world.”他被埋在诗人角，他的墓志铭是Charles Dickens 查尔斯狄更斯(18121870)(18121870)NovelsThe First Period(1836-1841)1836 Sketches by Boz 特写集特写集 1836-1837 The Pickwick Papers匹克威克外传匹克威克外传 1837-1838 Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿雾都孤儿 1838-1839 Nicholas Nickleby 尼古拉斯尼古拉斯尼克尔贝尼克尔贝1840-1841 The Old C
10、uriosity Shop 老古玩店老古玩店 1841 Barnaby Rudge 巴纳比巴纳比拉奇拉奇Charles Dickens 查尔斯狄更斯(18121870)(18121870)The Second Period(1842-1850)1842 American Notes 美国札记美国札记 1843-1845 Martin Chuzzlewit 马丁马丁朱述尔维特朱述尔维特 1843 A Christmas Carol圣诞颂歌圣诞颂歌 1844 The Chimes教堂钟声教堂钟声 1845 The Cricket on the Hearth灶上蟋蟀灶上蟋蟀 1846-1848 Do
11、mbey and Son 董贝父子董贝父子 1849-1850 David Copperfield 大卫大卫科波菲尔科波菲尔(His best book)Charles Dickens 查尔斯狄更斯(18121870)(18121870)The Third Period(1851-1870)1852-1853 Bleak House 荒凉山庄荒凉山庄 1854 Hard Times 艰难时世艰难时世 1855-1857 Little Dorrit 小杜丽小杜丽 1859 A Tale of Two Cities 双城记双城记 1860-1861 Great Expectations 远大前程远
12、大前程 1864-1865 Our Mutual Friend(the worse,last)1870 Edwin Drood)艾德温艾德温德鲁德之迷德鲁德之迷 (unfinished)The story is divided into three phases of Pips life expectations.When Pip was young,he wanted to become a blacksmith like his brother in law.His meeting with Havisham changed his attitude towards life,and he
13、 admired he decent way of living like a gentleman.He met Estella and fell love with her,but he cannot marry her because of his inferior status and his expectations changed-raise his social status and to become a gentleman,get a better education and then marry Estella.Pip realized the money and socia
14、l status is not the most important thing in life.What is important is love and loyalty.Mans true value has nothing to do with his money and status.PlotPip皮普皮普Magwitch马格韦契马格韦契Joe Gargery乔乔葛吉瑞葛吉瑞Mrs.Joe Gargery乔乔葛吉瑞夫人葛吉瑞夫人Biddy毕蒂毕蒂Estella艾斯黛拉艾斯黛拉Miss Havisham赫薇香小姐赫薇香小姐Character Analysisimmature,romant
15、ic idealism and innately good conscience PipHero of the novelImperiousmeanaggressiveMrs.Joe Gargery the sister of Pip quiet,honest,simple,warm-hearted,kind,generous,considerate,etc.Joe Gargery Pips brother-in-law,a fearsome criminal Pips secret benefactor grateful,kind and generous to Pip Magwitch w
16、ealthy,eccentricmanic and often seems insane an example of single-minded vengeance pursued destructivelyMiss Havishamyoung beautiful cruel cold uninterested in PipEstellasimple,kindhearted girl,represents the opposite of Estella;plain,kind,moral,and of Pips own social class.Biddy The moral theme of
17、Great Expectations is quiet simple:affection,loyalty,and conscience are more important than social advancement,wealth,and class.Satis House(Miss Havishams house)A magnificent Gothic setting symbolizes Pips romantic perception of upper classes.Miss Havishams wedding dress on her decaying body is a sy
18、mbol of death and degeneration.The wedding feast and the stopped clocks symbolize her attempt to stick to that day;the brewery next to the house indicates the connection between commerce and wealth,for her fortune is of a recent success in industrial capitalism;the crumbling dilapidated stones of th
19、e house and darkness and dust suggest the general decadence of the lives of its inhabitants and the upper class.The mists on the marshesnThe misty marshes are used several times to symbolize danger and uncertainty.Whenever Pip goes into the mists,something dangerous is likely to happen.Significantly
20、Pip must go through the mists when receiving his fortune,which alerts the reader the apparently positive development in his life may have dangerous consequences.Doubles 成双成对成双成对 One of the most remarkable aspects of Dickenss work is its structural intricacy and remarkable balance.Dickenss plots inv
21、olve complicated coincidences,extraordinarily tangled webs of human relationship,and highly dramatic developments in which setting,atmosphere,event,and character are all seamlessly fused.Doubles 成双成对成双成对 While this doubling of element has no real bearing on the novels main themes,but,like the connec
22、tion of weather and acting,it adds to the sense that everything in Pips world is connected.Throughout Dickenss works,this kind of dramatic symmetry is simply part of the fabric of his novelistic universe.Doubles 成双成对成双成对Two convicts on the marsh(Magwitch and Compeyson)Two invalids(Mrs.Joe and Miss H
23、avisham)Two young women interest in Pip(Biddy and Estella)Two secret benefactors(Magwitch and Pip)Two adults seek to mold children after their own purposes and both of their actions motivated by CompeysonWagwitch the convict takes the risk of being hanged when he comes back to London to see Pip.How
24、do you evaluate this meeting?This meeting is of great importance for both This meeting is of great importance for both Magwitch and Pip.Magwitch felt gratified Magwitch and Pip.Magwitch felt gratified when he saw Pip had grown up and lived a when he saw Pip had grown up and lived a superior life wit
25、h the money he had offered.superior life with the money he had offered.For Pip,it was an unexpected meeting.he felt For Pip,it was an unexpected meeting.he felt marvelous and the meeting ended his so-called marvelous and the meeting ended his so-called great expectation.After he knew the truth he gr
26、eat expectation.After he knew the truth he felt regretful.felt regretful.What is the meaning of gentleman in the context of the novel?A gentleman should be rich.He has a A gentleman should be rich.He has a social status and has a lot of money social status and has a lot of money leading a good life.
27、He should be leading a good life.He should be elegant and well-educated.He can elegant and well-educated.He can get anything he likes with his money.get anything he likes with his money.What can you learn about the character of Pip through his conversation with the unexpected visitor?Before he recog
28、nizes who is the visitor,Pip treats him Before he recognizes who is the visitor,Pip treats him rather politely and hospitably,displaying Pips gentle rather politely and hospitably,displaying Pips gentle but snobbish side;when recognizes him to be the but snobbish side;when recognizes him to be the c
29、onvict,Pip tries to repulse him with money,which,convict,Pip tries to repulse him with money,which,maybe out of his nature-kindness,but give me an maybe out of his nature-kindness,but give me an expression of disgusting-the trick is often used by expression of disgusting-the trick is often used by s
30、nobbish persons;after knowing the whole truth,Pip snobbish persons;after knowing the whole truth,Pip kindly arranges him to sleep,though himself feel hard kindly arranges him to sleep,though himself feel hard to bring himself to accept the truth,from which we to bring himself to accept the truth,from which we can see his kindness and cowardliness.can see his kindness and cowardliness.Thank you!
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