第一篇：英文原著阅读报告 great expectations 远大前程
Great Expectations
Introduction
The novel I read this time is “Great Expectations” written by Charles Dickens
(1812-1870).He is the greatest representative of English critical realism.Dickens was born
in a poor family.At the age of 12, his father was put in prison and young Dickens was sent
to work in a factory.From 1827 to 1829, Dickens worked as a clerk in a low firm and later
as a newspaper reporter.Dickens was horned by the Queen of England three months before
his death on June 9, 1810.The words of his grave read as follows “by his death, one of
England’s greatest writers is lost to the world.”He has many masterpieces, such as “A tale of
cities” “David Copperfield” “Hard time” “Oliver Twist” and so on.“Great Expectations”
is one of his masterpieces.The story in this book happened in middle of 19 century and it
reflects the gap between the rich and the poor in the capitalistic society.The summary of the book
This story tells us about a young man who wished for the unreal/imaginary lives, and
eventually his hope was extinguished by the real life.Pip was an unfortunate boy.His
parents both died when he was a baby.He was brought up by his elder sister and her
husband Joe Gargery.Joe was kind to Pip and he also wanted Pip to be a good blacksmith.But the emergence of Estella has changed his life.He fell in love with Estella and he wanted
to be a gentleman for her.Then a mysterious person came to help him to realize his great
expectations.At first Pip thought that it was Miss Havisham, a strange woman made plans
for him.But at last, it proved that an escaped convict who he had helped when he was a
little boy was his benefactor.When the escaped convict was arrested again, his expectations
were at an end.Finally he realized that he only wanted to be a gentleman but he had ignored
his old friends.He came to the real life again eventually.After suffering so many pains he
and Estella came together at last.My view on this story
“Great Expectations”, I think there is an irony included in this title.It relates to some unrealistic dreams.From this novel, I have learnt a lot.Firstly, I pick up several lessons from Pip.One can have great dreams, but we should achieve our dreams by our own effort instead of depending on other people.In this story, Pip had an unrealistic dream.He didn’t want to be a poor blacksmith like Joe.He wanted to be upper class people, to be a gentleman and he imagined that there was someone had made a plan for him.It is true that Abel Magwitch helped him secretly.But when Abel Magwitch was arrested, it put an end to Pip’s great expectations.He had nothing left.And in this book, Herbert and Pip form a poignant contrast.Herbert made great efforts to realize his dreams.In the end, his business was doing well, and his company had offices overseas.Therefore, we should realize that if we want to achieve something or fulfill one of our ambitions, we must make efforts by ourselves.There is no one in the world that makes plans for us.And there is no short cut for success.Secondly, I have learned from Pip’s experience that we should be grateful to others.We know that Pip was brought up by his sister and Joe.And Biddy was also friendly to him when he was at home.But when he was helped by a mysterious person, he moved to London to learn being a gentleman.He began to be proud and look down upon those people at home.He wanted to forget his poor life and his poor friends.But when his “great expectations” were ruined, it was still those people who helped him out of trouble.However, when he began to realize it, his sister has died;it was too late to say thanks to her.What I want to say is that no matter how successful we are, we should not be proud;we should not forget the people who had helped us, and return for them.If I have learned anything about giving thanks, it is this: give it now.Don’t hesitate until it is too late to give our thanks.Thirdly, I also learn some lessons from Miss Havisham, She is a woman full of hatred, and she lived in hatred for so many years.She brought Estella up in order to revenge on man.I think what she did is not worth at all.On one hand, she was not in real happiness, although she revenged on other people.On the other hand, she had ruined Estella’s life.In addition, she also made other men miserable.As for as I’m concerned, if I was Miss Havisham, I will choose another different kind of life.I will make myself live better than before to prove that I can live better without that man.From her experience, I think we should learn to forgive,learn to give up some bad things that had happened.No matter what had happened in the past, we should not be always lost in the past and we are supposed to look forward, and continue our new life.There is no doubt that if she had chosen a positive way, she will have a satisfactory life.What’s more, when it comes to Estella, I want to say that we should live our own life, and do not only live up to others’ expectations.We know that, Estella was brought up by Miss Havisham to revenge on man.She did everything that Miss Havisham told her.We can say that she was “made” by Miss Havisham, and she was proud, cold.At last, following Miss havisham’s requirements she married to a man she didn’t love at all.I think she lived an unhappy life.She only did as other people told her.And she didn’t do something what she liked.I think this kind of life is meaningless.We should have our freedom.It occurred to me that nowadays, parents have high expectations on their children.They decide so many things for their children without getting their children’s permission.I think children should have their choice of life.Parents should not put their children into cage.It is wise for them to set their children free to look for their own sky.In a word, from this book, I have learnt how to be myself, how to realize my dreams and how to live my own life.
第二篇：远大前程(英文)
Great Expectations——远大前程
In thistterm , I read a book called 《 Great Expectations》, it was written by Charles Dickens, one of the most famous English writers.He wrote lots of wonderful novels.This book is one of his compositions.People always like to compare with their friends.It is a big foible of all the people.If other people have a lot of money, we also want to be rich.If all the people around us are poor , we never mind that we are very poor, too.we will not ashamed because of our folly.This is a social problem.If we never possess anything, we will not mind we lost some thing.Since we don’t want to be very rich ,we will not feel despond because poor.The protagonist of this novel is Pip(Handel).His parents died when he was a baby.His sister had brought him up ‘by hand’.His sister married to Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith.They didn’t have much money, and Pip never went to school to study.But he was often very happy.Because all of his friends are like him.It isn’t very unfortunate to them, this is their lives.But by a chance, Pip helped a convict;he gave much food to him.Then he met Miss Havisham, a very strange old woman and she was very rich.Four years later, Miss Havisham wants Pip to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects inherit a fortune when he grow up.After hearing that.Pip started to despise his poor friends.He even feel ashamed because he live with the poor man.Pip’s ‘great expectations’ destroyed his life.This novel told us that we cannot compare with others.Don’t feel envy at the others money.And if one day you be very rich , please don’t despise your poor friends.
第三篇：远大前程英文读后感
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 successively.The only difference between them lies in the plot and structure.Estella is adopted and trained to break men‟s hearts by Miss 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 success 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 consciousness.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 presses 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.
第四篇：远大前程英文介绍
The story is divided into three phases of Pip's life expectations.The first
“expectation” is allotted 19 chapters, and the other two 20 chapters each in the 59-chapter work.In some editions, the chapter numbering reverts to Chapter One in each expectation, but the original publication and most modern editions number the chapters consecutively from one to 59.At the end of chapters 19 and 39, readers are formally notified that they have reached the conclusion of a phase of Pip's expectations.In the first expectation, Pip lives a humble existence with his ill-tempered older sister and her strong but gentle husband, Joe Gargery.Pip is satisfied with this life and his warm friends until he is hired by an embittered wealthy woman, Miss Havisham, as an occasional companion to her and her beautiful but haughty adopted daughter, Estella.From that time on, Pip aspires to leave behind his simple life and be a gentleman.After years as companion to Miss Havisham and Estella, he spends more years as an apprentice to Joe, so that he may grow up to have a livelihood working as a blacksmith.This life is suddenly turned upside down when he is visited by a London attorney, Mr.Jaggers, who informs Pip that he is to come into the “Great Expectation” of a handsome property and be trained to be a gentleman at the behest of an anonymous benefactor.The second stage of Pip's expectations has Pip in London, learning the details of being a gentlemen, having tutors, fine clothing, and joining cultured society.Whereas he always engaged in honest labour when he was younger, he now is supported by a generous allowance, which he frequently lives beyond.He learns to fit in this new milieu, and experiences not only friendship but rivalry as he finds himself in the same circles as Estella, who is also pursued by many other men, especially Bentley Drummle, whom she favours.As he adopts the physical and cultural norms of his new status, he also adopts the class attitudes that go with it, and when Joe comes to visit Pip and his friend and roommate Herbert to deliver an important message, Pip is embarrassed to the point of hostility by Joe's unlearned ways, despite his protestations of love and friendship for Joe.At the end of this stage, Pip is introduced to his benefactor, again changing his world.The third and last stage of Pip's expectations alters Pip's life from the artificially supported world of his upper class strivings and introduces him to realities that he realizes he must deal with, facing moral, physical and financial challenges.He learns startling truths that cast into doubt the values that he once embraced so eagerly, and finds that he cannot regain many of the important things that he had cast aside so carelessly.The current ending of the story is different from Dickens's original intent, in which the ending matched the gloomy reverses to Pip's fortunes that typify the last expectation.Dickens was
prevailed upon to change the ending to one more acceptable to his readers'
tastes in that era, and this “new” ending was the published one and currently accepted as definitive.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.
第五篇：《远大前程》英文读后感
Reflection on Great Expectation
-----My Reading Report of Great Expectation
Class one
Student No.10
Name: Anna Wang
Great Expectation was written by Charles Dickens(1812-1870), one of the most popular writers of all the time, who created some of the best-known characters in English literature.Great Expectation is similar to David Copperfield in that it is the story of a boy growing up.Pip has lost his parents when he was fifteen years old.He was brought up by his sister and her husband--Joe Gargery, a blacksmith who takes Pip on as an apprentice, teaches him his trade and makes friends with him.One day before Christmas, when Pip went to the churchyard where his parents were buried, he met an escaping convict--Abel Magwitch.Pip brought cakes for the hungry man, which touched Abel deeply, although he was caught by police.After the Christmas, Pip was invited to play with Estella, a beautiful girl adopted by Miss Havisham.Miss Havisham was the richest man in the village.But she was very strange.She was dressed a bridal veil all the whole life after her fiancé left her at the wedding day, taking her a large amount of property.So she lived in the revenge and hated all the men.She treated Estella as a tool to take revenge on all man.When Pip met Estella, he loved her, so did Estella.But Estella knew she was just a tool to carry out the revenge plan of Miss Havisham, so she pretended to be proud, indifferent and look down upon Pip-a relative of a poor blacksmith, which broke Pip’s heart.As a consequence, Pip was determined to become a real gentleman who is in possession of money, good manners, luxurious life and a great expectation for Estella’s sake.Under the help of a stranger who donated a lot of money to him, Pip left Joe and the village, and went to London to live a luxurious life to learn to how to become a real gentleman.Pip started to waste money, look down upon other poor people, even including Joe, his brother-in-law and best friend!Gradually, Pip lost himself in the whirlpool of money, although he has had a large number of debts.As the same time, Estella has become more and more beautiful, graceful and brilliant.She walked in the crowd of men and married one of them as the Miss Havisham’s wish, which really tore Pip into pieces.And, as the same time, the mysterious benefactor of Pip came out.He is Abel-the escaping convict whom Pip has helped.When he escaped from the prison again, he earned much money and wanted to pay back Pip in that way.But Abel soon was caught by police and died.The properties he gave to Pip also were confiscated by police.Pip fell from the heaven to hell.He couldn’t stand it.As a result, he had a serious ill.After receiving a letter describing the bad situation of Pip, Joe came to London to look after Pip in spite of the bad attitude Pip ever towards him.After recovering, Pip realized his wrong.He decided to be a gentleman by his own endeavor.So he came back to the small village and spared no efforts to make business with his friend--Herbert.Several years later, Pip met Estella again at the old house of Miss Havisham.After knowing her husband has died and the real reason why Estella didn’t choose him before, Pip made a proposal to her.At last, the two lovers were in together and Pip found his real great expectation at the end.When I finished reading the novel, I also take consideration to the question “what a real great expectation is?” In my opinion, great expectation not means money, luxurious life provided by others, even the benefactors are your parents.It is our own dreams that we want to realize by our own efforts.Great expectation may be the further study, a respectable degree, a good job, a warm family or something else.But we must know that our future and great expectation must be mastered by our own.We should working for them, fighting for them, even dying for them, whatever.Only when we got what we want by our own endeavor, can we say we have had a great expectation.
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