远大前程中女性人物解读
 查尔斯·狄更斯是英国维多利亚时期的著名的批判现实主义小说家，享誉全球。他和他的作品在世界上都极具影响力。他在小说里揭露了上层社会和资产阶级的阴暗面，更是在小说里对下层社会人民的悲惨遭遇表示了同情，特别是妇女，儿童和老人。《远大前程》是查尔斯·狄更斯晚年所写的极富教育意义的小说，也是一本比较成熟的小说。本文分析了小说中女巫式和仙女式的两类女性人物，以及女性人物的悲剧，而维多利亚时期的社会背景和女性个人限制是造成她们悲剧的主要原因。
关键词  查尔斯·狄更斯，《远大前程》，女性人物形象
1  Introduction 1
2  Female Characters in Great Expectations 2
3  Tragedy of the Female Characters in Great Expectations 6
Conclusion 11
Acknowledgements 12
References13
Charles Dickens, the greatest representative of English critical realism, was born in 1812 in England. His father was incarcerated in a debtors’ prison when he was very young. Although he lost his formal education, he wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles in 20 years, among which are Sketches by Boz, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiocity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, American Notes, A Christmas Carol, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, A Child's History of England, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He is regarded as the representative novelist of the Victorian Era. He was born in a poor family, making a living independently at 10, and then worked as a reporter in a newspaper office at 16. During this peroid, he studied by himself in the British Museum. He became famous overnight at 25 because of his books Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers. Finally, in 1837, The Pickwick Papers became a popular topic in England and even had a variety of goods related to The Pickwick Papers.
As a novelist, he achieved success. In 1846, Dickens travelled from Italy to Switzerland where he wrote Dombey and Son and David Copperfield. The two books played an important part in Dickens’ career. His novels later became more serious in theme. In 1860, he published his novel Great Expectations, which was fully narrated in the first person after David Copperfield. Great Expectations is universally recognized as one of Charles Dickens’ most popular novel. The novel depicts the personal growth and personal development of Pip who was an orphan.
Great Expectations, since its publication, has won worldwide reputation and attracted numerous critics’ attention. Critics at home and abroad have scrutinized it from various aspects. Such as Lauren Russette comments on the female characters in Subversion and Affirmation: A Portait of Women in Dickens’s Great Expectations that women who create an ideal sense of domesticity are greatly rewarded. For example, Biddy saves the household willingly and selflessly and finally has a happy ending by her marriage to Joe. In the novel, women around him have a great influence on Pip’s growth. Dr. M. Manopriya, who writes The Two Elements of Nature (Water and Fire) Used as a Symbol by Charles Dickens in Great Expectations, points out that Dickens makes use of the various symbolical meanings for water and fire according to the situation. Daniel Collins states in The Name of the Game: Great Expectations in Dickens’ Great Expectations: Dickens uses names to describe characters’ personalities and to convey ulterior meanings. In Great Expectations, many characters’ destiny are implied in their names, such as Miss Havisham and Biddy.
原文链接：http://www.jxszl.com/wgy/yy/27364.html