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1、1.3 The Cardinal Theme in Great Expectations 62 Analysis on the Educational Meaning in Great Expectations 72.1 Search for Ones Own Identity 72.2 Moral Improvement 83 Artistic Features of Great Expectations 123.1 Unique and Creative Methods of Narration 123.2 Comic and Ironic Effect in Describing Sto

2、ry 133.3 Symbolic Meaning and Grotesque Feature in Character Portrayal 143.3.1 Joe Symbolizing a Good Man with Decent Character 143.3.2 Bentley Drummle Symbolizing the Grotesque Caprice of the Upper Class 163.3.3 The Marsh Mists Symbolizing Danger and Ambiguity . 174 Conclusion 18Bibliography 19Ackn

3、owledgement 20远大前程的教育意义和艺术特点摘 要查尔斯狄更斯（1812-1870）是世界著名作家之一。远大前程是狄更斯最成熟的作品之一，也是他晚期的作品。远大前程叙述了一个青年幻想破灭的故事。金钱使皮普从一个穷学徒变成阔少爷，也使他染上了上流社会的恶习，而背离了他原有的劳动人民的纯朴天性。没有了金钱， 皮普两手空空地回到家乡， 但恢复了自己的人性。 本文透过对小说远大前程的分析，揭示狄更斯在作品中反映出的深入思想及写作的艺术特点。第一章简单介绍作家生平和作品大意。第二章将集中分析人在寻找自我时需要勇敢与自我的弱点、有罪的过往斗争，正是由于对峙和激烈的心理斗争与深刻的内心剖析，人性

4、的真善美才能战胜假恶丑，才能取得道德的进步。第三章着重阐述小说的艺术特征，尤其是在叙事技巧和人物刻画方面的特色。最后得出结论，狄更斯是英国文学史的一代名家，取得了辉煌的艺术成就。关键词：远大前程； 教育意义； 艺术特色； 叙事技巧The Educational Meaning and Artistic Features in Great ExpectationsAbstractCharles Dickens （1812-1870） was one of the most famous writers in the world. Great Expectations was one of Dic

5、kens most successful works, and it was his work of comparably later period. Great Expectations told us a story of a young man whose exceptions became babble. Money made Pip from a poor man to a rich people, but he also learned the bad things of the upper class. Without money, Pip had to go home, but

6、 he got what he wanted. This paper would explore the deep educational meaning and writing features that the author Dickens reflected in the Great Expectations. The first chapter would provide us a brief introduction to Charles John Huffman Dickens and Great Expectations. The second chapter would foc

7、us on confrontation of individual weakness and guilty past to search ones identity and would specifically analyze the moral achievement of the hero through intense inner struggle. The third chapter would elaborate the unique artistic features of the Great Expectations, including narrative techniques

8、 and the skills of character portrayal. The last chapter was about the great achievements of Charles Dickens and his great influence on the later literary creation.Key words: Great Expectations; Educational Meaning; Artistic Features; Narrative Techniques1 A Brief Introduction to Charles Dickens and

9、 Great Expectations1.1 Charles DickensCharles John Huffman Dickens was an English writer, generally considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and responsible for some of English literatures most iconic novels and characters. During his lifetime, Dickenss works enjoyed unpreceden

10、ted popularity and fame, and they remain popular today. His literary genius was fully recognized by critics and scholars. His writing style was florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch. Many of his characters names provided the reader with a hint as to the roles played in advancing the storyline

11、. All authors might be said to incorporate autobiographical elements in their fiction, but with Dickens this was very noticeable, even though he took pains to mask what he considered his shameful, lowly past. He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society. His f

12、iction, with often vivid descriptions of life in nineteenth century England, had inaccurately and anachronistically come to symbolize on a global level Victorian society （1837-1901） as uniformly “Dickensian”. 1.2 The Great ExpectationsThe story took place on the Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protago

13、nist was about seven years old. Great Expectations was a story of the orphan Pip told by the protagonist in semi-autobiographical style as a remembrance of his life from the early days of his childhood until years after the main conflicts of the story have been resolved in adulthood. Pip, whose pare

14、nts had been dead, was a poor child. He lived with his sister and her husband Joe. One evening, he was sent to Miss Havishams house and played with her. At that time, he met Estella, a girl who was adopted by Miss Havisham. Since he met Estella, he fell in love. He decided to be a gentleman. And he

15、wanted Miss Havisham sent him to Landon to study. But sometime later, Estella went to Landon and Pip had to go back home and to be a blacksmith. One day, he received a letter and had a chance to go to Landon. When Pip was at Landon, he met his companion, Herbert Pocket and Mr. Jagger, a lower who ga

16、ve him money from his guardian. But Pip had not seen his guardian. He thought that this chance must be given by Miss Havisham. She must have wanted Pip marry to Estella.Pip met Estella in Landon. He told Estella how he felt. But Estella told that she didnt want to hurt him and she would never love h

17、im. She was going to marry to a rich but rude man.Just then, an old man Mr. Mag witch visited Pip. To his surprise, the man was the convict and he was Pips guardian. Pip felt all hope was lost. He had to help Mag witch escape from the police. Herbert decided to help them. They hid in Herberts house

18、where was near a river. They could row a boat along the river and went abroad. 1.3 The Cardinal Theme in Great ExpectationsSome of the major themes of Great Expectations were crime, social class, empire and ambition. From an early age, Pip felt guilty, he was also afraid that someone would find out

19、about his crime and arrest him. The theme of crime came into a greater effect when Pip discovered that his benefactor was in fact a convict. Pip had an internal struggle with his conscience throughout the book. Great Expectations explored the different social classes of the Georgian era. Throughout

20、the book, Pip became involved with a broad range of classes, from criminals like Mag witch to the extremely rich like Miss Havisham. Pip had a great ambition, which was demonstrated constantly in the book. 2 Analysis on the Educational Meaning in Great Expectations 2.1 Search for Ones Own IdentityDi

21、ckens had Pip as the writer and first person narrator of this account of his lifes experiences, and the entire story was understood to have been written as a retrospective, rather than as a present tense narrative or a diary or journal. In Great Expectations, the first one was to determine the natur

22、e of people. As the outline Miss Havisham in Great Expectations should belong to the typical bad woman. She was spoiled in childhood; she was cheating by the groom in the wedding day. After that, she never went out of her home, from “Revenge of the world of men ”seems to be all her life, and she was

23、 full of an old monster. The second was to figure clarity. In Dickenss novels, each character represented a certain class of people, reflected the commonality of a group of people. Such as the image of Jaggers, who fully reflected the image of lawyers in London society. The third was to seek deep hu

24、mans meaning. Dickens was very good at digging the implied human factors, and through them to reflect the tendency of human nature and the laws of some universal things.（Michael Wheeler,1985, p.1985）14 Joe sister being gangsters in the attack, after paralyzed in bed she became a mild temperament, as

25、ked Joe to forgive her. The Pips expectation was just the search of ones own identity, It focused on the confrontation of individual weakness and guilty past to search ones identity and would specifically analyze the moral achievement of the hero through intense inner struggle. Pip lived a humble ex

26、istence with his ill-tempered older sister and her strong but gentle husband Joe. Pip wanted to become a blacksmith like brother-in-law. Pip was satisfied with this life and his warm friends until he was hired by an embittered wealthy woman, Miss Havisham, as an occasional companion to her and her b

27、eautiful but haughty adopted daughter, Estella. His meeting with Havisham changed his attitude toward life, and he admired his decent way of living like a gentleman.he met Estella and fell in love with her, but he cannot marry her because of his inferior status and his expectations changed: raise hi

28、s social status and to become a gentleman, get better education and then marry Estella. Finally, Pip had realized the money and social status was not the most important thing in life. What was important was love and loyalty. Mans true value had nothing to do with his money and status. Every man had

29、his faults, we saw much valuable morality from the leading character in Great Expectations and he deserved our respect, such as his fortitude,and goodness. It was a continual process while individuals growing and improving. （John Forster,1928, p.38）11Pip got his good morality back and started a bran

30、d-new life although his bright future was broken. 2.2 Moral Improvement Pip was the main character of this novel. He was an orphan who never sees his parents for unexplained reasons. He was brought up “by hand” by his fierce sister Mrs. Joe Gargery and befriended by her husband Mr. Joe, the village

31、blacksmith. At that time, Pip lived a quiet life with kindness and innocence. All his expectation was to become a man like Joe and do something useful. However, when he met the beautiful but arrogant Miss Estella in Satis House, he found that he lived a “common life” of the “lower class”. So he feet

32、 self-abased and unsatisfied with his “common life”. He wanted to change and became a gentleman of the “upper class” to match with Miss Estella. He became rash and frustrated. At this very time, an anonymous benefactor helped Pip to receive higher education in London. For Pip, he finally got the chance to change his “common life” to