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1、,Cinematographic adaptation 谭嘉利 About the author 蒋贤丽 Composition Synopsis 周 沁 Analysis of Main Characters 颜若男 Analysis of Theme 邓娟 PPT 柳梦婷,Great Expectations,Cinematographic adaptation,About the author,Charles John Huffam Dickens born in Portsmouth, England, was an English writer and social critic.
2、He created some of the worlds most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.,Charles Dickens(1812-1870),During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius
3、by critics and scholars for his writing features of realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.,Overhiscareer,heeditedaweeklyjournalfor20years,wrote15novels,fivenovellasandhundredsofshortstoriesandno-fictio
4、narticles,lecturedandperformedextensively,wasanindefatigableletterwriter. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of
5、early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, is his best known work of historical fiction.,(1843),(18371839),(18601861),(1859),Composition Synopsis,Composition Synopsis,Great Expectations is set in early Victorian England, a time when great social changes were sweeping the nation. T
6、he 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 ones birth, the divisions between rich an
7、d poor remained nearly as wide as ever. Throughout England, the manners of the upper class were very strict and conservative: gentlemen and ladies were expected to have thorough classical educations and to behave appropriately in innumerable social situations.,Background,On Christmas Eve, around 181
8、2, Pip, an orphan who is age seven, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard . The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles. Pip did it. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another escaped convict; the two
9、 are returned to the prison ships.,Part 1,Part 1,A wealthy old woman named Miss Havisham, who is always wears an old wedding dress everywhere she goes and keeps all the clocks in her house stopped at the same time. She asks pips uncle to find a boy of a certain age and bring him to her home to play
10、with her daughter.pip was selected .,Part 1,During his first visit, he meets a beautiful young girl named Estella, who treats him coldly and contemptuously. Nevertheless, he falls in love with her and dreams of becoming a wealthy gentleman so that he might be worthy of her. He hopes of becoming more
11、 educated and refined to win Estella s affections. But his hopes are dashed when, after months of regular visits to Satis House, Miss Havisham decides to help him become a common laborer in his familys business. Pip settles into learning Joes trade. A London lawyer , Mr.Jaggers, approaches pip revea
12、ling very startling news: pip has inherited a large sum of money from an anonymous benefactor, with immediate funds to train him in the gentlemanly arts. He will not know the benefactors name until that person speaks up. Pip is to leave for London in the proper clothes. He assumes that Miss Havisham
13、 is his benefactor. He visits her to say good-bye.,Part 2,Pip sets up house with Herbert Pocket at Barnards Inn. Mr.Jaggers disburses the money Pip needs to set himself up in his new life. Joe visits Pip at Barnards Inn, where Pip is a bit ashamed of Joe. Joe relays the message from Miss Havisham th
14、at Estella will be at Satis House for a visit. Pip and Herbert exchange their romantic secrets - Pip adores Estella and Herbert is engaged to Clara.,Part 2,Pip and Herbert build up debts. Mrs. Joe dies and Pip returns to his village for the funeral. Pip takes Estella to Satis House. She and Miss Hav
15、isham quarrel. At the Assembly Ball in Richmond Estella meets Bentley Drummle, a brute of a man. A week after he turns 23 years old, Pip learns that his benefactor is the convict from so long ago, Abel Magwitch, who had been transported to New South Wales after that escape. He became wealthy after g
16、aining his freedom there. As long as he is out of England, Magwitch can live. But he returns to see Pip. Pip was his motivation for all his success in New South Wales. Pip is shocked, ceasing to take money from him. He and Herbert Pocket devise a plan to get Magwitch out of England, by boat. Magwitch shares his past history with Pip.,Part 3,Estella tells Pip she will marry Bentley Drummle. Pip tells Miss Havisham that he is as unhappy as she can ever have meant him to be. He asks her to finance
