摘 要

查尔斯.狄更斯是英国最伟大的批判现实主义小说家之一。他善于描绘底层人物，揭露社会对人们的侵蚀。《远大前程》中的匹普是一个很好的例子。

《远大前程》是狄更斯晚年的著作，也是他思想最成熟的一部作品。这部小说讲述了主人公匹普得到一笔神秘财产继承权以后，从一名普通乡村男孩摇身一变，来到伦敦成为一名绅士，但是最后梦想破灭后又回归普通人的过程。在书中，匹普经历了很多人生的变故，因此他的性格在不断随之变化。本论文通过探索小说主人公匹普在年幼时的敏感胆怯，去往伦敦后的虚荣与自负，以及一直的善良与好学，分析造成他不同性格的多方面原因。家庭教育，社会环境以及内心情感对他所产生的影响。

匹普是一个有吸引力的形象。他的形象不是一成不变的，而是多种多样的。这是使这本书更吸引人的原因之一。通过对皮普的研究，我们可以更好地了解当时下层社会的生活和内心感受，我们也可以更好地理解狄更斯的写作风格和他的思想。

关键词： 敏感胆怯 虚荣自负 好学善良

Contents

1Introduction 7

2Demonstration..............................................................................................................8

2.1Main characters of Pip.......................................................................................... ....8

2.1.1 Being timid and sensitive 8

2.1.2 Being conceited and vain 9

2.1.3 Being studious and virtuous 10

2.2 Factors for Pip’s character 10

2.2.1 The social environment 10

2.2.2 The family education 11

2.2.3 The personal factors 12

3Conclusion 12

Works Cited..................................................................................................................14

Bibliography 15

An Analysis on Pip’s Characters in Great Expectations

1. Introduction

Charles Dickens is a famous writer in 19^th century. He has many masterpieces which are loved and read by the public so far. These works include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and so on. From many of works, we can see that Dickens is especially good at portraying the life encounters of the little people in bottom of society, and thus profoundly reflects the social reality in England at that time. Not only is his writing brilliant, so is his life experience. He worked as an apprentice, perhaps because of this experience, which made his works more concerned with the working-class people’s life. He also worked at a law firm and also was a reporter who interviewed the British House of Commons policy and took part in the interview election activities. In 1849, his autobiographical novel called David Copperfield was available. The content of this book was associated with his private experiences. In June 1870, Dickens passed away. His works have spread around the world, and he has become a famous writer in English literary.

From December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectations was serialized in the weekly magazine called the four seasons. This novel tells us a story that a common countryside boy became to London after he got a huge inheritance of property. He thought he had become a gentleman, and no one would ever look down upon him again. And he would be with his favorite girl, Estella. But the future did not go as far as he thought. The man who funded him was not Miss Havisham but the prisoner he had helped in his childhood, and Estella would marry someone else. In the process, Pip's characters are no longer single, but changing. From the young sensitive inferiority to the later conceited and hypocritical, then when he lost everything and found himself again and returned to the good and virtuous Pip. The novel runs through Dickens' style. Dickens uses the spicy style, humorous language to reveal the evil society can corrode the protagonist's spiritual feelings. Through the ups and downs of the protagonist, he expresses his views on life and human nature. This book highlights the themes of love, loyalty and conscience that are more important than wealth and social status. This book has been adapted into a series of television dramas and plays for hundreds of years. Edgar Johnson highly praised the book as “having the most perfect structure and language in comparison to other works of Dickens”. In 1965, May Granata pointed out in "Pip's Great Expectations and Ours" that this was one of Dickens' best novels, because the moral issues it expressed were not as simple as we had seen. Pip is not a young philosopher. He is full of emotions about the moral principles of behaviorism. Moreover, Great Expectations ends naivety and disillusionment with reality. This paper analyze Pip’s characters to show that when we pursue our great expectations, only through effort by ourselves that can gain better future.

2 Demonstration