《远大前程》英文读后感[推荐阅读]

第一篇：《远大前程》英文读后感

The book review of Great Expectations

Recently, I have finished reading Great Expectations, which is widely considered as the masterpiece of Dickens.The historic background of this book is Victorian Period which was the time when British was governed by Queen Victoria.The hero of the book is Pip, who was living in a blacksmith family.Someday, he met Magwitch, who was a convict, and he helped him.To show his gratitude, Magwitch gave Pip a good fortune and Pip led a totally different life after he got the money.However, Pip lost all of his money and fame because of his enemies’ plot at the last and become ordinary people at the last.Dickens is famous for his novel such as Great Expectations, the Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and so on.He always creates some people in lower class and show their different qualities.In Great Expectations, he tried to show us the conflict between different classes in Victorian Period by telling us the story of Pip.After Pip got the money, he left his friends and family to city, and then he learned to raise his social state.However, he was a child born in a blacksmith family and there’s a wide gap between him and the upper class.Finally, he lost all of his great expectations and went back to his hometown as ordinary people.Fortunately, he met his lover, Estella, in Satis House and they left there together at the end of the story.In the book, my favorite character is Joe, Pip’s brother in law.He was a blacksmith and belonged to the lower social class.However, he possessed some good qualities that made him noble.For example, though Joe didn’t know any word, he thought highly of Pip when Pip tried to write him a letter.What’s more, Pip’s sister always considered Pip as the burden of their family but Joe always believed that his brother can become successful.No matter how unkindly he was treated, Joe was always family to others.Undoubtedly, it’s Joe’s noble quality that prevents Pip from becoming someone snobbish.In my opinion, the story of Pip is really attractive while the writing style is also special.For example, Dickens used simile and metaphor for many times in his book.When Joe visited Pip, Dickens wrote that Joe had taken his hat as a bird’s nest with egg in.I think it’s hard to show the inner world of characters as well as feeling because those things are really abstract.On the other hand, if we write it directly, that may be boring and childish.And by using simile, Dickens transforms the abstract feeling into visual language, with which we can use our imagination to enjoy the story much more easily.I think that we can also make good use of Dickens’s outstanding skills to improve our writing.After reading “Great Expectations”, many people complained that the class difference will always result in tragedy and they think that we should try to destroy those barriers.However, I think the massage that Dickens wants to deliver is that we should always be friendly, warm-hearted and optimistic.With these qualities, we can always lead a happy and comfortable life like Joe even though we don’t have much money.

第二篇：远大前程英文读后感

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 Miss 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 impression 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 quirkiness 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 expresses 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 impressed by this art of beauty.So I like Dicken’s works very much.

第三篇：英文读后感《远大前程》

Reading report

《Great Expectations》

【England】Charles John Huffam Dickens

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Impression 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 Miss 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 sadness.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 impression, 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 less than three times, I have learned not only some new phrases and sentences, but also a philosophy of life.Among the characters, which impressed 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 wickedness 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 sadness.But when he was informed of Pip’s illness, 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 selfless.“Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless 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 lessons 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, Miss 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.5

第四篇：远大前程英文读后感

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 Miss 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 impression 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 quirkiness 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 expresses 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 impressed 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 express 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 lesson 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 impresses 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 express 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 happiness and bliss!

第五篇：英文读后感《远大前程》

Readingreport

《Great Expectations》

【England】Charles John Huffam Dickens

学院：

系别：

姓名：

学号：

Impression 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 Miss 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 sadness.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 impression, 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 less than three times, I have learned not only some new phrases and sentences, but also a philosophy of life.Among the characters, which impressed 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 wickedness 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 sadness.But when he was informed of Pip’s illness, 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 selfless.“Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless 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 lessons 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, Miss 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.