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1、四川外国语大学成都学院 Chengdu Institute Sichuan International Studies University本科毕业论文题目（中文）浅析远大前程中男主人公的成长（外文）A Brief Analysis of the Growth Theme in Great Expectations系 别英语经贸系专 业英语年 级2011级学生姓名叶留洋指导教师赵婉如结稿日期2014年 9 月 20 日四川外国语大学成都学院教务处制二一四年九月二十日填A Brief Analysis of the Growth Theme in Great ExpectationsAbstra
2、ctCharles Dickens is one of the greatest British realistic novelists in the nineteenth century. He played a crucial role in the development of fiction and contributed greatly to the development of the writing style in British literature. His novels are not only a true reflection of the whole generat
3、ion of life experience, but vividly reveals the mid 19th century Britains entire social reality, the depth and breadth are far beyond the contemporary most other works. His respective masterpiece Great Expectations has long been universally recognized as literal canons and enjoyed great popularity.
4、This thesis analyzes the course of Pips growth from the point of the Bildungsroman. Pip embarked on his journey to London, no longer able to stand the maltreatment of his sister Mrs. Joe and the hypocrisy of Pumblechook, who longs for gentlemanly status and wealth. With the help of guides, he also g
5、rew up by discarding both his prejudice against lower class people and his illusion for bourgeois and he got to know the infallible justice of the Judiciary system, and the meaning of gentlemanly status. His journey departs from home and with the incidents and people that he encounters on the way pr
6、oves to be a process of losing innocence and gaining maturity. The thesis is composed of five chapters including an introduction, the concept of initiation story, the initiation experience of the protagonist and the temptation and the knowledge of society and Pips change. The fifth chapter is the co
7、nclusion of the paper.Key words: Great Expectations; the initiation story; growth; influence; character A Brief Analysis of the Growth Theme in Great ExpectationsOutlineThesis Statement: This paper introduces Pips course of growth, analyzes what is important in reality after a series of hardships an
8、d frustrations both in his life and his mind for our better understanding the major characters influencing Pips growth.I. IntroductionII. The Initiation StoryA. The Definition and Origin of Initiation StoryB. Main Features of Initiation StoryIII. The Growth of PipA. Pips Initiation ExperienceB. Pips
9、 Journey Away from HomeIV. The Major Characters Influencing Pips GrowthA. Positive GuidesB. Negative GuidesV. ConclusionA Brief Analysis of the Growth Theme in Great ExpectationsI. IntroductionCharles Dickens (1812-1870), a great nineteenth-century English novelist, has long enjoyed a good reputatio
10、n all over the world. Throughout his life, he has left to the world a rich legacy of 15 novels which has reached a circulation of a hundred thousand copies. This popularity has never declined. Even in the twenty-first century, his works are still widely read, continuously adapted for films and TV pl
11、ay series.Among his various works, Great Expectations has become one of Dickens finest and most influential works. Many of the events from Dickens early life are mirrored in Great Expectations, which, apart from David Copperfield, is his most autobiographical novel. Pip, the novels protagonist, live
12、s in the marsh country with his sister and brother-in-law since his childhood. He is an innocent boy at the beginning. However, when he meets the beautiful Estella, he loves her and then changes his attitude towards life and people. He dreams of becoming a wealthy gentleman so that he can match Este
13、llas social status. Later, he receives a large fortune from a mysterious man and it seems that his dream will come true. The dream soon breaks into pieces, however, because his benefactor is not a nobleman, but a criminal he once helped. And Estella is married to someone else. Pip finally realizes h
14、ow wrong he was in the past. And he changes drastically. He tries his best to save the convict Magwitch from being punished by the English law. Although his efforts are all in vain, Pip regains his virtue with the help from his friends and finally gains maturity.The novel mainly introduces the cours
15、e of Pips growth. Up to now, Great Expectations has been studied abundantly at home and abroad. There has been some analysis of Great Expectations from the angle of initiation. Psychoanalytic criticism tends to analyze the psychological development of Pip under the influence of Victorian society. Ch
16、arles Dickens Great Expectations edited by Harold Bloom gives some information of the related introduction (including its theme and structure) and entities of Great Expectations. He believes that “Great Expectations is an untypical work; the difference from his other novels is the free narration, elabora
