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《远大前程》（
Great
Expectations
）
——
1
860
年
-1861
年
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《我们共同的朋友》（
Our Mutual
Friend
）
——
1864
年
-1865
年
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《艾德
温
·
德鲁德之谜》（
The
Mystery of Edwin
Drood
）
——
< br>未完成，
1870
年
Short story collections
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Sketches by
Boz
(1836)
*
The Mudfog
Papers
(1837) in
Bentley's
Miscellany
magazine
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Reprinted Pieces
(1861)
*
2.3. Features
of Charles Dickens’ novels
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(1) character
sketches and exaggeration
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(2) broad humor
and penetrating satire
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(3) Delicate structure and plot (well-
designed and attractive)
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(4) The power of exposure
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(5) Good at
using rhetorical devices to make his language
vivid and humorous.
3.
Great Expectations
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3.1 Background
information
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Great
Expectations
is set in early Victorian
England, a time when great social changes were
sweeping the nation. The Industrial
Revolution of the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth
centuries had transformed
the social landscape, enabling capitalists and
manufacturers to amass
huge fortunes.
Although social class was no longer entirely
dependent on the circumstances of
one's
birth, the divisions between rich and poor
remained
nearly as wide as ever.
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In
form,
Great
Expectations
fits a pattern popular in
nineteenth-century European fiction: the
bildungsroman, or novel depicting
growth and personal development, generally a
transition
from boyhood to manhood such
as that experienced by Pip. The genre became
prevalent in
England with such books as
Daniel Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe,
Charlotte Bront?
's
Jane Eyre,
and
Dickens's own
David
Copperfield.
Each of these works, like
Great Expectations,
depicts
a
process of maturation and self-
discovery through experience as a protagonist
moves from
childhood to adulthood.
3.2 Main Plot
The story is divided into three phases
of Pip's life expectations.
First
Expectation
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The
first expectation deals with Pip's childhood,
being raised by his sister and her husband. It is
during his simple childhood that he
meets Estella, a snobbish but beautiful girl who
attracts his
attention. He abandons the
simple life and begins to learn the craft of
blacksmithing, Pip is
surprised by
legal notification that an anonymous benefactor
has bequeathed to him property.
He is
to go to London for gentlemanly training.
The Second
Expectation
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It
is in London that we start the second expectation.
During this period, Pip rises to the status