远大前程英文读后感
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《Great Expectations》
【England】Charles John Huffam Dickens
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Impreion of the book“Great Expectations”
With so many famous masterpieces on the booklist, it is really a pretty hard job to choose one to read first.After much hesitation and deeply thought, I finally decided to borrow Great Expectations from the small library.
Great Expectations is about love, family, and rejection as Pip and Mi Havisham have both been rejected in certain ways.Pip is a boy around 13 years old, easy to fright, and goes through his life suffering lots of sadne.He is in love with a girl named Estella and wants her to find his love, but for him being shy and not showing himself to her, it makes it very hard for him.
Great Expectations was the penultimate novel completed by the most popular novelist of Victorian England, Charles Dickens.Born in Kent, England, in 1812 to a family of modest means but great pretensions, Dickens’s early life was marked by both humiliation and ambition.Dickens never forgot the period of financial crisis during his childhood, when following his father’s bankruptcy, he was taken out of school and forced to work in a shoepolish warehouse.Pip meets an escaped convict, Magwitch, and gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives.
When Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor he snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and his“great expectations”.
I set up my mind to select it for the reason that I have read a brief
introduction of this masterpiece in my high school English textbook before.In
addition, a Tale of Two Cities which is also written by Charles Dickens, the outstanding and special English writer, left me a wonderful and deep impreion, when I finished reading the marvelous story.
Of course, Great Expectations didn’t let me down, either.What’s more, the whole structure of the novel is well and elaborately designed.The plot is
extremely attractive and full of unexpected twists.Quite a few characters have a distinguishable personality.Moreover, those words and sentences are so beautiful and meaningful that I even took them down carefully in my notebook.By reading them no le than three times, I have learned not only some new phrases and sentences, but also a philosophy of life.
Among the characters, which impreed me most are not Pip and Estella who should be regarded as the leading roles, but Joe and Magwitch.I feel awfully sorry that I was not brave enough to read the original edition that is as thick as a brick.Otherwise, I may appreciate Joe and Magwitch more.Yes, they are not the main characters in the novel.However, what they said and what they did deeply touched me.It’s interesting, isn’t it? They are quite the
opposite guys.One is a totally good man without the least bit of wickedne while the other is a prisoner who is believed to have committed every evil.
I believe that everyone who reads the book is to like Joe.When he talked about his heavy drinking father who hit him a lot, he said he had a lot of love.Faced with his rude wife, he would rather seem a bit weak or foolish than stand
up to her and fight for himself.Knowing peacockish Pip was ashamed of his uneducated manners, he left sadly and quietly.The world rushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making the music of sadne.But when he was informed of Pip’s illne, he immediately came to take good care of Pip.He is always contributing everything and requiring nothing.Such a man is Joe, kind, tolerant and selfle."Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitile as cowardice," says a wise author.
However, why do I appreciate Magwitch, the bad guy? You may wonder.Indeed, Magwitch did a lot of evil things when he was young.But how can you be unmoved when you get to know that the old man kept himself going just by thinking of the boy who once did him a small favor？ He lost his only daughter and Pip had no parents, so he considered himself as the boy’s second father, making up his mind to help his dear boy became a gentleman.He did every kind of job and led a hard life in Australia.At last he made a big fortune and promised himself that all the money would go to Pip.He could have led a better life in Australia ,but Ihe chose to go back to London .with the simple intention of seeing Pip, he went back at the risk of being hanged! “whatever the fault he had from the start, remember, reader, he had a good heart.” Joe used these words to describe his father.But I think these words can better describe
Magwitch.He lived with the fear of death all his life.Who shuts love out, in turn shall be shut out from love.However, thankfully, because Pip finally realized his good heart, his ending was peaceful.
Dickens has Pip as the writer and first person narrator of this account of his life"s experiences, and the entire story is understood to have been written as a retrospective, rather than as a present tense narrative or a diary or journal.Still, though Pip "knows" how all the events in the story will turn out, he uses only very subtle foreshadowing so that we learn of events only when the Pip in the story does.Pip does, however, use the perspective of the bitter leons he"s learned to comment acidly on various actions and attitudes in his earlier life.
I know how to fully understand this novel, twice is far from enough.Pip, Estella, Mi Havisham, Biddy even Mr Wemmick, every single character has a story that is well worth my attention.I love this novel so much that I am determined to read the original edition one day.Believe me.But before that day comes, I will see the movie Great Expectations first.
Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your front porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs.
Women’s inferior state
—— thoughts on Great Expectations
Dickens is not a writer disdaining women.Instead，he loves， respects and takes care of them.However, in his novels, he unconsciously degrades women and puts them inferior to men.Great Expectations is evidence to my thesis.
There are three aspects in this novel that I believe this kind of thought of Dickens is revealed.
The first one is that women are fragile.That is not because those women are in lack of will, but that they need surviving abilities and that of self-survival and struggle against destiny.They always turn to men.That can be called “hero saving the beauty”.This notion originated in the Greek tales but is still adopted succeively.The only difference between them lies in the plot and structure.Estella is adopted and trained to break men‟s hearts by Mi Havisham.Havisham revenges men and marries Estella to an unworthy guy though Pip deeply loves Estella.Nothing can be bitterer than see his lover married to another guy for a man.Pip really fell into the despair of losing Estella.However, Estella suffers a lot and begins to regret for her initial choice for her spouse and begins to treasure
Then comes my second point.Facing destiny, women are physically and intellectually inferior to men.Actually it does not mean they have an inferior intelligence, but that it seems so.Or we can say that both men and women have the same potential of intelligence, but women never show a lot.God creates everyone equally, but not everyone is granted the same approaches to succe or achievements.Women are restricted to families, which restricts them from showing a lot.They can cook food well, which is one standard for their excellence but not the one for male.The novel goes this way since it implies the male consciousne.The ordinary intelligence of women in marriage and love is exposed completely.Havisham is abandoned on her wedding day, but she keeps the room like the day she got married, while on the other hand she tries every means to revenge men.Bearing these two conflictive thoughts in mind, Havisham certainly fails to live her own life out of the control or influence from male.
The discipline for women is my third point.A feminist De Bufuwa says: “One is called woman because she is „made‟ not „born‟.” Culturally woman is the product of society and the result of its strict restrictions.Those women who do not obey the disciplines are not regarded as gracious or good women by social criteria, which emphasizes on families, the responsibilities for their husbands and their dependence on men.In Great Expectations, Estella and Havisham‟s misfortunes are closely
attached to love and marriage.They try to revenge men and but they cannot leave men.Estella leaves Pip, but at last she comes back to him.And Havisham keeps thinking about her marriage day and her husband.So in Dickens‟s novel, women are decent on surface, but failed in heart.Every period has an outstanding feature, which make descendants linger in mind.To learn this novel can help us in understanding better women‟s efforts to stand up.Society prees public to believe that male plays a dominant role.Havisham can symbolize a feminist but what then? She needs a male accompany.Her ending somewhat is tragic but Estella harvests through a long time, but anyway she wins in depending man and leading a pleasant life.
The above is what I get from the novel in the textbook.And to conclude my opinion in one sentence, I should say：women depend on men.That is not my opinion, but what I get.I have to mention that again since I myself is one part of that group and I am not willing to take a subordinate role in both family and society.
远大前程英文读后感一：Great Expectations
“Great expectations” is one of Dicken’s most maturest works.After Dicken had experienced large part of meaningful life, he had a deeper cognition for people, environment, as well as the life which he had gone through.And all the mature cognitions are included in this writing---Great expectations.
pip was brought up by his sister who was unpleasant as well as crude and her friendly blacksmith husband—Joe.Joe himself had arranged a common hard but satisfied path for pip to go through, and on the other hand, pip beheld this as his highest goal to achieve.
But the two things which he had experienced later had changed his pursue and his fate as well.Met Abel Magwith（an escaped convict） in the swamp, and unwillingly helped him out of danger by stealing food from his own home.If say that had changed his attitude for material life, then, his introduction to Mi Havisham, an aging woman who had been jilted at the alter and Estella who had been brought up by Havisham only to revenge for her own pain had brought vast shock for his world of spirit.
Aspiring to be a gentleman despite his humble born, pip fortunately or unfortunately received a fund of wealth from an unknown source and being sent to London with a lawyer.From then on, he became a gentleman without question at the price of losing everything.
The title of this book is ‘Great expectations” which make an impreion on us that the character would have great expectations just as the title goes.But in fact this title has a tone of sarcastic on the other way around.
This story full of quirkine from the very beginning to the end, the relations among characters are anfractuous as well which actually attracted me a lot.
One of the paragraphs, which I appreciate most implicatively as well as beautifully exprees the feeling between pip and Estella.
“We are friends,” said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench.
‘And will continue friends apart.” Said Estella.
I took his hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first let the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
At the view of language, this works had achieved a step o f highest, Dicken had made this writing plain and fluent as well, which surely can attract lots of readers and high comments.
To be frank, I really impreed by this art of beauty.So I like Dicken’s works very much.
远大前程英文读后感二：To be simple
After reading the whole book of “Great Expectations” written by Charles Dickens, I can’t find suitable words to expre my thoughts completely.
First of all, I am attracted by the excellent literary talent of Charles Dickens.The descriptions of the details are just right for the foundation of the background.The design of the story also brings me shock.To me, it is not only a good story, but also a leon of the life that I am experiencing.
But, what I have learnt from the book is not the main idea that Charles Dickens wanted to show.What imprees me deeply is only a supporting role —Joe.Compared with the life of pip, what Joe has experienced is so ordinary.He is an ordinary blacksmith, an ordinary husband, an ordinary brother, an ordinary friend, even an ordinary person! However, just such an ordinary person brings me a great special feeling.In his world, life is so simple.He is far away from the complex world which is polluted by the ugly soul of people.May be, “kind-hearted” is the biggest advantage of him, which is also the biggest shortage of him in his daily life.
Different from all the other figures in the book, Joe’s life is so simple and his thoughts also stay pure after he experiences whatever sufferings that life gives him.In my opinion, his childhood is miserable.What he has experienced must be unhappy and sorrowful.He grows up in such a family, meets so much violence （May be, in that period, it is common）。To say it exaggeratedly, there must be bad influences on his young heart.But, what he does surprises me one more time.He treats his sufferings in another way—to be sincere.
I can’t really understand what he is thinking about, but I am deeply touched by his behavior.His tolerant with his wife—pip’s sister, his friendly affection with pip, even his sympathy with a prisoner that all expre one thing — sincerity.He is the harbor of soul for pip.There is such a great difference between Joe and pip’s ambition.What he tells us is that to be simple is the key to your happy life.
Optimism is another spirit in his soul.He never gives in to the difficulties that he meets.Maybe, in his dictionary of life, there is no word with the meaning of shrinking back.He never worries about his lower grade life ,but faces up to it.For example, he only can read ”J” and ”O” before, because he has no chance to study in his childhood.But finally, he sets his mind to study and can write letters by himself.
Although Joe is a person with only a little knowledge, what he owns is far more precious than many learned men.His pure heart will bring him great expectations.What he teaches us is that never to be taken away your pure heart and optimistic attitude towards life.There will be nothing difficult or miserable when you treat them with a sincere heart.
To be simple, what you will gain is far beyond your imagination and you will find that life is just a game which is always filled with happine and bli!
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