Great Expectation远大前程.ppt

Great Expectations Charles Dickens (1812-1870) BY BOYS GROUP Charles Dickens Literary Status Life Bildungsroman (教育小说) Definition/Characteristics/Representatives Great Expectations Introduction Expectations of 3 Stages Main Characters Major Themes Content: Literary Status: The greatest English Critical Realist of the Victorian Age One of the greatest writers of English language Charles Dickens Life: Had a sad, painful childhood/ Taken to the prison for debt/ Worked as a lawyers office boy/ Informal education but wide reading/ a sensitive boy Married the daughter of a magazine owner/ Fallen love with a young actress/ Divorced his wife Rose to his reputation/ public reading tour for money Died of a stroke in 1870 and buried at Westminster Abbey / honored by Queen of England. Charles Dickens Bildungsroman (教育小说) The Bildungsroman (novel of formation) is a genre of the novel which focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood. The genre rose during the German Enlightenment. Bildungsroman Characteristics: About the growing up or coming of age of a sensitive person who is looking for answers and experience. The goal is maturity, and the protagonist achieves it gradually and with difficulty. The genre often features a main conflict between the main character and society. Bildungsroman Representatives: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749) David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens (1850) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884) The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (1890) Martin Eden, by Jack London (1909) Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence (1913) Great Expectations Introduction Expectations: a legacy to come. The title immediately announces that money plays an