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Abstract: Great Expectations
describes the Growth and the proce of Self-improvement of the main character, Pip, an orphan boy brought up by his sister and her husband Joe.Provided with money by a secret benefactor, the poor boy is able to live as a gentleman.However, his great expectation turns out to be nothing when he finds his benefactor is a prisoner.In the end, Pip loses everything except his best friend Joe.Through the trials, Pip casts aside the vanity, finds the true ego and gains the mature life.Key words: Self-improvement, Ambition, appetite, true love
1.Introduction Great Expectations is one of the most mature novels by Charles Dickens, the great critical realist writer of the Victorian Age.It is the story of a boy's growing up told by the center character himself, Pip.From innocent to vain, the change of Pip's inner world is also the procedure of self-exploration.Taking the change of Pip's character and value as the storyline, supplemented by other characters' transition, the novel trys to tell us: happine is not closely related with money and social status, what matter a lot in one’s life are conscience and true love.2.Analysis of Pip’s Character Development
Throughout the novel, Pip's character undergoes a contrasting change from a weak and scared little boy to a powerful and confident young man.When he meets Estella he yearns to become rich to gain her acceptance, but at last he finds out that power and wealth could not bring happine.2.1 The stage of childhood 2.1.1Before meeting Mi Havisham and Estella
At the beginning of the story, a lonely, terrified and frightened little boy lies before us.“Oh！Don't cut my throat，sir！”the poor orphan meets the convict in the graveyard.Although terribly frightened, he still shows his friendline and sympathy to the convict.To him, asking Joe or police for help is much easy than getting what the vicious man needed from his strict sister.Struggled in heart till the next dawn, he finally keeps his promise to the convict and even worries about him when hears of the arrest of the convict.An innocent boy appears vividly before readers.Pip also shows his lack of maturity.When they have their Christmas lunch, Pip is afraid of his secret being soon brought to light as receiving a scolding from his sister.“Anyhow, Mr.Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled.”He feels guilty for his concealment to his guardian and fears that all the people in the word expect to reveal his secret.He staunchly believe that “a Constable in the kitchen, waiting to take me up”.In this stage, to be a blacksmith as Joe is Pip “great expectation”.2.1.2 after meeting Mi Havisham and Estella
The emergence of Mi Havisham and Estella shakes Pip’s mind a lot.The infatuation to the “beautiful young lady at Mi Havisham’s who was dreadfully proud” and the florid decoration and gloomy atmosphere of the Satis House all make Pip comes to see his humble origin and humble origin in a new light.When they play cards, Estella mocks him by calling him the “Knaves”, “Jacks”, which made Pip feels ashamed and embarraed.This is a turning point for Pip of his life, one important line marked the beginning of Pip’s desire to take first steps to change.“The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.”
The desire of improving his social status becomes increasingly strong.The result of this is that he is no longer innocent and departs from kindne born with.2.2 A heir of a big anonymous fortune When Mr.Jaggers tells Pip that he will inherit a big anonymous fortune, Pip’s dream comes true.He affects an arrogant air and even performs snobbish before Joe and Biddy.“I am afraid—sore afraid—that this purpose originated in my sense of the contrast there would be between me and Joe, if we went to the coach together.I had pretended with myself that there was nothing of this taint in the arrangement”.Pip lives a showy and luxurious life in London.During this period, he is arrogant, sternly cool and unmoved.In this stage, although Pip becomes an upper cla, he feels le and le confident.He engages in introspection of what he has done.The infatuation to the spendthrift life does not make him reach the end of totally being heartle yet.He still secretly helps Herbert.His spiritual nature is good.2.3 The true benefactor Pip is visited by Magwitch at his 23rd year, while ironically, he finds out that Magwitch is his benefactor not Mi Havisham, which means there is no arrangement for him to marry Estella.At first Pip feels ashamed that his aspiration to social distinction is funded by a low cla criminal, this shows his contempt character again.Later Pip decides to accept the convict and harbour him while he hides from Compeyson and the police.He also takes a moral step, to stop using the convict's money.These actions show Pip’s great decency to kindne in his character When Pip plans to smuggle Magwitch away, his has become mature.The cowardly boy checkered with contradictions is a confident adult now guiding Magwitch the way to his freedom.Here, what happens in Pip leads to the change of the goal he has been pursuing.Though he loses his “great expectation”, he gets back morality he lost before.2.4 The ego in real-life Coming through the ordinary of childhood, going past the fantasy of boyhood, Pip Finally understand the world better and find the true ego in real-life.Eleven years later, Pip comes back to England.He has learned to work hard and be satisfy with the simple and plain life.3.conclusion Throughout Charles’ world-famous work Great Expectations, we can learn plenty of meaningful things.Ambition and self-improvement take three forms in Great Expectations—moral, social, and educational;these motivate Pip’s performance throughout the novel.Firstly, Pip desires moral self-improvement.He is extremely hard on himself when he acts immorally and feels powerful guilt that spurs him to act better in the future.When he realizes he has isolated Joe and Biddy.With awful feelings deep down his heart, Pip decides to visit them more often.In the second place, Pip longs for social self-improvement.In love with Estella, he is so ashamed with his background that he is thirst for knowledge to keep himself in the same cla with Estella.At last, Pip is eager for educational improvement, which is deeply connected to his social ambition and longing to marry Estella: a full education is a requirement of being a gentleman.After all the failures of their expectations, the novel comes to its significant end.Pip finds all he has running after are like clouds drifted wind, the real gentleman is just beside him, Joe, the great expectation Pip has gained is not social position or money, but one should behave himself, do what he should do.Works cited [1] Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Wordsworth Editions,2000 [2]查尔斯 狄更斯 王科一译 远大前程 上海译文出版社,1980
