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本科生毕业设计（论文）开题报告 设计（论文）题目：On the Disillusion of Gentry Dream in Great Expectations 学生姓名： 齐益超 学号： 2011810555 分 院： 外国语分院 班级： 英语1106 指导教师： 曹晓明 职称： 讲师 填表日期： 2014 年 11 月 28 日 杭州师范大学钱江学院教学部制 选题的背景和意义 Great Expectations, published in 1861, is regarded as one of the most perfect novels of all Charles Dickens’s works, which is an immoral masterpiece written in his later years. For me, Great Expectations is the most impressive literature novel I have read in my college. After reading the novel Great Expectations, I acquire lots of sense of worth towards life. From the book, I recognize that it’s the hardest thing in our lifetime to stay calm when we are enticed by materials. People all have opportunities to chase for their great expectations, no matter what the results will be, they can attain something important and make their life meaningful. Great Expectations reflects the author’s views of great expectations. A truly great expectation and life exist only where love and gratitude meet and mix in proper measure. Therefore, there are so many scholars having shown extra interest in it. The opinions of the scholars are diverse on the novel, especially on the discussion of the disillusion of gentry dream. The novel has been studied, analyzed, and debated in different aspects, and the previous studies have developed a lot of valuable views for references. All those have served as a starting point and they have made enormous contribution to providing various academic foundations for a further study on the novel. Great Expectations mainly talks about Pip’s life experiences of the upper and lower classes society of London, which were much more different at that time. Pip was an innocent boy living in a remote country. However, his common life was totally changed by an unimaginable experience because of his great generosity to Abel Magwitch. After several years, he