Reflection on Great Expectation

-----My Reading Report of Great Expectation

Class one Student No.10 Name: Anna Wang Great Expectation was written by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), one of the most popular writers of all the time, who created some of the best-known characters in English literature. Great Expectation is similar to David Copperfield in that it is the story of a boy growing up.

Pip has lost his parents when he was fifteen years old. He was brought up by his sister and her husband--Joe Gargery, a blacksmith who takes Pip on as an apprentice, teaches him his trade and makes friends with him. One day before Christmas, when Pip went to the churchyard where his parents were buried, he met an escaping convict-- Abel Magwitch. Pip brought cakes for the hungry man, which touched Abel deeply, although he was caught by police. After the Christmas, Pip was invited to play with Estella, a beautiful girl adopted by Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham was the richest man in the village. But she was very strange. She was dressed a bridal veil all the whole life after her fiancé left her at the wedding day, taking her a large amount of property. So she lived in the revenge and hated all the men. She treated Estella as a tool to take revenge on all man. When Pip met Estella, he loved her, so did Estella. But Estella knew she was just a tool to carry out the revenge plan of Miss Havisham, so she pretended to be proud, indifferent and look down upon Pip- a relative of a poor blacksmith, which broke Pip’s heart. As a consequence, Pip was determined to become a real gentleman who is in possession of money, good manners, luxurious life and a great expectation for Estella’s sake. Under the help of a stranger who donated a lot of money to him, Pip left Joe and the village, and went to London to live a luxurious life to learn to how to become a real gentleman. Pip started to waste money, look down upon other poor people, even including Joe, his brother-in-law and best friend! Gradually, Pip lost himself in the whirlpool of money, although he has had a large number of debts. As the same time, Estella has become more and more beautiful, graceful and brilliant. She walked in the crowd of men and married one of them as the Miss Havisham’s wish, which really tore Pip into pieces. And, as the same time, the mysterious benefactor of Pip came out. He is Abel- the escaping convict whom Pip has helped. When he escaped from the prison again, he earned much money and wanted to pay back Pip in that way. But Abel soon was caught by police and died. The properties he gave to Pip

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I think there are three themes revealed in the novel Great Expectations

1.women are fragile. That is not because those women are in lack of will, but that they need surviving abilities and that of self-survival and struggle against destiny. They always turn to men. That can be called “hero saving the beauty”. This notion originated in the Greek tales but is still adopted successively. The only difference between them lies in the plot and structure. Estella is adopted and trained to break men?s hearts by Miss Havisham. Havisham revenges men and marries Estella to an unworthy guy though Pip deeply loves Estella. Nothing can be bitterer than see his lover married to another guy for a man. Pip really fell into the despair of losing Estella. However, Estella suffers a lot and begins to regret for her initial choice for her spouse and begins to treasure

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The book review of Great Expectations

Recently, I have finished reading Great Expectations, which is widely considered as the

masterpiece of Dickens. The historic background of this book is Victorian Period which was the time when British was governed by Queen Victoria. The hero of the book is Pip, who was living in a blacksmith family. Someday, he met Magwitch, who was a convict, and he helped him. To show his gratitude, Magwitch gave Pip a good fortune and Pip led a totally different life after he got the money. However, Pip lost all of his money and fame because of his enemies’ plot at the last and become ordinary people at the last.

Dickens is famous for his novel such as Great Expectations, the Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and so on. He always creates some people in lower class and show their different qualities. In Great Expectations, he tried to show us the conflict between different classes in Victorian

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匹普是个孤儿，由姐姐一手养大，受雇于地主郝薇香家，与地主的养女艾丝黛拉相爱，一心想成为上等人。他无意中搭救的一个逃犯，在国外发财致富，为报答救命之恩，送他去伦敦接受上等教育，并让他继承一笔遗产。正当匹普满怀希望之际，艾丝黛拉却另嫁他人。同时由于逃犯就擒，遗产被充公，匹普只好赴海外谋生。后回国与艾丝黛拉相逢时，得悉她的丈夫已死，饱经忧患的一对情人终于结为伴侣，离开了象征着吞噬一切的地主郝薇香的颓败的旧宅。

故事始终贯穿着爱的主题：匹普对艾丝黛拉始终不渝的爱，匹普与赫伯尔特的兄弟情谊之爱，马格韦契对匹普畸形却让人起侧隐之心的爱而最令我们感动的仍是乔那无私纯朴的爱；匹普从一个幼小的孤儿到成为乔的徒弟，青年时代又几经生活环境的翻云覆雨，因虚荣一度迷失最终又幡然悔悟的成长道路上，无处不见乔对他最诚挚的关爱。他总是对匹普说，“我们永远是最好的朋友”。后来的情形证实了乔的一诺千金，当匹普到伦敦去接受“上等人”教育的时候，乔对匹普的伦敦生活感到了一种隐隐的不安，他对匹普的深切关心溢于言表，他对匹普说，“你和我在伦敦坐不到一块了??除非到了家里，大家就成了自己人，彼此都了解。”后来当匹普继承遗产的希望完全破灭，并生了场大病的时候，又是乔，不但在精神上给匹普以莫大的支持，而且悄悄地帮助匹普还清了欠债。这种善良的爱在潜移默化中引领着匹普在不断的对与错的内心挣扎中渐渐回归良知。

设想一下，尽管在郝薇香蓄意教导培养下，艾丝黛拉冷漠无情，行为乖张，但如果没有郝薇香的报复心理,让她能在正常的环境下成长，她完全可能成为—个健康可爱的女孩，可惜她的青春年华和可悲的婚姻只是郝薇香报复祭坛上的贡品。如果没有马格韦报答的扭曲，匹普可能会成为一个闻名的铁匠，经过一步步努力也能实现自己的远大前程，虽然匹普的人生的改变是环境的变化导致的，前提必须这种环境会满足你的某种需求，其根本还在于人的内心，内心实则路实。

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Great Expectations

“Great expectations” is one of Dicken’s most maturest works. After Dicken had experienced large part of meaningful life, he had a deeper cognition for people, environment, as well as the life which he had gone through. And all the mature cognitions are included in this

writing---Great expectations.

Pip was brought up by his sister who was unpleasant as well as crude and her friendly blacksmith husband—Joe. Joe himself had arranged a common hard but satisfied path for Pip to go through, and on the other hand, Pip beheld this as his highest goal to achieve.

But the two things which he had experienced later had changed his pursue and his fate as well. Met Abel Magwith(an escaped convict) in the swamp, and unwillingly helped him out of danger by stealing food from his own home. If say that had changed his attitude for material life, then, his introduction to Miss Havisham, an aging woman who had been jilted at the alter and Estella who had been brought up by Havisham only to revenge for her own pain had brought vast shock for his world of spirit.

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《远大前程》500字英文读后感

There was a man who had seven sons, but he had no daughter, greatly though he longed for one. At last his wife told him that they could again expect a child and, sure enough, when it was born it was a baby girl. There was great rejoicing, but the child was weak and puny, so weak that it had to be christened at once. The father told one of the boys to go quickly to the spring and fetch christening water; the other six ran along with him, and because each of them wanted to be the first to dip the jug into the well, it fell in and sank. So there they stood and didn‘t know what to do, and none of them dared go home. When they didn‘t come back their father got impatient and said:“ I‘ll wager they‘ve been playing some game again and forgotten all about it, the godless brats.“ He was afraid the little girl would have to die unbaptized, and in his rage he cried out:“ I wish those boys would all turn into ravens.“ He‘d scarcely spoken the words when he heard a whirring of wings in the air overhead, looked up and saw seven coal-black ravens flying away.

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《远大前程》读后感

读了19世纪英国作家狄更斯的长篇小说《远大前程》, 颇有感慨。

《远大前程》讲述的是出身穷苦的皮普从小父母双亡，和脾气暴躁的姐姐生活在一起，他的姐夫乔是一个忠厚老实的铁匠，处处关爱着皮普。小时的皮普被镇上一位富有的老小姐郝维辛雇为她的养女艾斯苔拉的玩伴，皮普爱上了漂亮而又冷漠高贵的艾斯苔拉，从此努力学习，以做一个配得上艾斯苔拉的“上等人”。正在这时，郝维辛小姐的律师找到了皮普，说有一个神秘的人给了皮普一大笔财产，让他成为一个绅士。皮普接受了这笔财产，来到了伦敦，开始了跻身上流社会的生活。但艾斯苔拉的若即若离和她最后对皮普的抛弃以及神秘人的现身改变了这一切。神秘人是皮普小时救助过的一个逃犯，刚开始皮普对逃犯充满了厌恶，但皮普逐渐被逃犯的纯真善良所打动，决定帮助被通缉的他逃出国外。然而，逃脱计划被逃犯旧时的仇人所获，逃犯被警察抓获，皮普的财产也被充公。前程和理想就此破灭的皮普后来到了国外打工，十几年后又回到了乔的身边，并偶遇同样饱经沧桑的艾斯苔拉。

贯穿《远大前程》的哲学思想是不同的环境会造就人的不同性格。皮普之所以想当一个“上等人”是由于周围环境的变化，而后来他对

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乔的冷漠甚至厌恶也都是由周边环境所引起的。小说从这一点告诉人们，人心很容易受世俗的影响而沦丧，因此拥有一颗高尚纯洁的心灵比拥有财富和地位更加难能可贵。小说中的英国社会处于19世纪，而此时的社会财富受工业革命的影响迅速膨胀。工业资本的出现增大了财富对人的诱惑，也拉大了社会，尤其是城市和乡村之间的贫富差距。毫无疑问，狄更斯笔下的这种社会处处透漏着悲观的气息：粗俗残忍、不学无术的恶棍可以通过继承和剥削得到财富成为“上等人”，而善良朴实的乔，劳碌一生也只能在简陋的乡村做铁匠；相信纯真爱情的郝维辛小姐掉入结婚陷阱，钱财被一卷而空；四处诈骗、恶贯满盈的骗子可以利用法律的漏洞屡次逍遥法外，而心地善良的逃犯却因没受过教育屡次为人所迫，遭到陷害，最后病死狱中。作者用这样的种种事例，批判了社会的不公和黑暗。而作为当时工业社会财富和资本象征的伦敦，在狄更斯笔下更是灰暗、拥挤、肮脏的。狭窄的街道，落满煤渣的旅馆，灰暗的天空，肮脏的监狱，无不代表着工业社会的黑暗与罪恶。相反，乔和幼时皮普所住的乡下，在作者笔下虽然简陋，却向来是阳光明媚、鸟语花香。小说中的乡村和憨厚的乔，代表着人心灵的纯真善良，而在结尾处皮普的回归，也寄托着作者对于人心的美好愿望。

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