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On “Great Dreams” in Great Expectations
JING Jing, JING Xia
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2016.02.008
Changchun University, Changchun, China; No. 20 Junior Middle School of Siping, Siping, China
Great Expectations is one of Charles Dickens’ great works, and it tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy brought up by his sister, who has good luck and great expectations, and then loses both of them. Through the rise and fall, however, Pip learns how to find happiness. He learns the meaning of friendship and love, and, of course, becomes a better person for it. Great Expectations reveals the hypocrisy of the Victorian civilization in England from the perspective of capitalist humanism and discloses the serious problems and nature of the society. This paper aims at interpreting Pip’s “Great Dream” and analyzing the influence of the social and historical backgrounds on Pip’s “Great Dream”.
Great Dream, Great Expectations, Pip
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