书评

The novel tells the story in the perspective of Pip, and descriptions of his mental activities can be seen everywhere in the story. The author describes the growth experience of a naïve and kind-hearted protagonist Pip, successfully combines personal life experience with social criticism and profoundly reveals the corrosive effect of the evil social forces on the main character. This novel highlights the main idea that love, loyalty and conscience play a more important role in life than wealth and social status. In essence, Pip is a typical idealist who dreams of getting himself a promising future. He is also the embodiment of the novel’s core idea. When he found something better waiting for him, he would strive for it without hesitation. When he saw the beautiful estate of Miss Havisham, he hoped that he could become a true gentleman. It is his endless pursuit of himself that determines the theme of the novel. In the novel, Dickens made an in-depth discussion on the conventional class system that existed in Britain. In the story, Pip finally realized that wealth and status were far more less important than people’s initial feelings. All in all, “Great Expectation” is a novel with highly moral consciousness, which arises readers’ interests and deep thinking. Both the revelation of social phenomena behind the story and the deep sympathy to people in this novel represent the social sense of responsibility and noble morality of Dickens. It is a book worth reading.