scholarly journals Kindness towards Others in Great Expectations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
AWEJ-tls for Translation & Literary Studies ◽  
Saed Jamil Shahwan
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
Great Expectation ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Contents ◽  
Shed Light

The novel, Great Expectation (1861) revolves around the universal theme of love and conflict, which influences the protagonist, Pip. Many critics have commented on the plot and background of the novel. The main aim of this study is to reveal various instances projecting kindness and sympathy in between the social conflict and social tension at the background of the novel “Great Expectation. The study will focus on the concept of kindness towards others which has been incorporated throughout the story of the novel between the narrator and the characters. Charles Dickens (1812- 1870) has shed light upon the theme of social mobility, manners, social injustice and prospect towards tangible reality. This study answers the question whether Dickens could be able to reflect the concept of kindness in the novel or not? Moreover, it will search whether the concept of kindness has been explored well in the story of the novel that it contains probable educational contents of kindness for research. To prove that, the article will explore various aspects of kindness, which has been observed during the course of the novel. The study would be based on qualitative research method from secondary resources. The aspect of kindness would be analyzed and highlighted through multiple scenes from the novel. The study would be concluded on the point where Dickens stresses on the dialect for up gradation of social status in Pip in order to establish himself as a desired partner of Estella despite having a social difference of class during the Victorian period.

scholarly journals Depiction of Victorian Era in the Novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. p17
Author(s):  
Farhana Haque
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Great Expectation ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Class System ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Middle Class Family

Charles Dickens’ Great Expectation actually did reflect the Victorian society and therefore the morality of that era’s people inside of the novel. Since we know that Victorian era basically present some features such as virtue, strength, thrift, manners, cleanliness, honesty and chastity. These are the morals that Victorian people used to hold with high esteem. In this novel Great Expectations, Dickens has created some Victorian characters whom we have seen both in good working way or not at all. But the protagonist named Pip was dynamic and he went through some several changes and dealt with different and significant moral issues. Somehow Pip left behind all the values he was raised with. Because Miss Havisham and Estella have corrupted Pip with rich life. Greed, beauty and arrogance were his ingredient of immoral life. The other characters like Joe and Biddy were static characters throughout the entire novel and became noticeable to be the manifestation of what we call as ideal Victorians. The main heroin of this novel was Estella with whom Pip thought he had some love connection. Hence, Estella has been presented as a good in the sense of potentiality and turned morally bad. Miss Havisham, who was basically a corrupt woman and she engraved the center of the novel. Great Expectations did disclose how was the situation of Victorian society through some important features such as higher class, corrupted judicial system between rural and urban England. Here in this novel, Dickens was concern about the education system in Victorian era where the lower class people get less opportunities of getting proper education. From the beginning to the end of this novel, Dickens explored some significant issues regarding higher and lower class system of Victorian society which did fluctuate from the greatest woeful criminal named Magwitch to the needy people of the swamp country, where Joe and Biddy were the symbol of that regime. After that we can proceed to the middle class family where Pumblechook was the person to represent that regime. Last but not the least Miss Havisham symbolized and bear flag of very rich and sophisticated Victorian woman who has represented the higher class society in the novel Great Expectations. Hence we can say Great Expectations has talked and displayed the class system of Victorian England and the characters of this novel therefore also did uphold the true reflection of Victorian era.

scholarly journals Sketching Victorian Society: A Corpus Assisted Study of Social Class in Dickens' Great Expectations

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Arshad Ali ◽  
Athar Rashid ◽  
Ameer Sultan
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pos Tagger

The present work deals with the adjectives used by Charles Dickens to portray the social class in the novel Great Expectations. The study used a corpus linguistics methodology for data preparation, corpus development, and data analysis. The text of the novel was collected from online sources and used in the compilation of the corpus. The corpus was filtered of additional information and tagged using a part-of-speech tagger (POS tagger). The tagged data was analyzed using AntConc software. The findings of the study suggest that the use of adjectives plays a substantial role in the portrayal of the social class in the novel Great Expectations. The findings also show that there was a clear divide between upper and lower classes. The members of the lower class were humiliated and looked down upon by the members of the upper class.

scholarly journals SOCIAL CONFLICTS FOUND IN CHARLES DICKENS’ GREAT EXPECTATIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-109
Author(s):  
Ali Fauzi
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Research Report ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

Literature is the expression of life in the works of beauty, truth, and cannot be separated from feeling, thought, or any activities as part of life. By literature, one can express his knowledge and get entertainment because literature is also defined as simply another way one can experience the world around him through his imagination. Meanwhile, novel as a genre of literature, is a reflection of reality the author writes based on his view. The novelist expresses ideas, or values which the readers can accept. In this research report, the researcher analyzes the novel “Great Expectations” to know better about the conflict happening in it mainly social conflict. It is about sad love and wonderful story of a boy named Pip whose parents died and who was brought up by his elder sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery. He loves a girl named Estella who always disdains him because he is a common and coarse boy. For this, he is eager to be a gentleman and wants to get her love. He has fortune because an escaped convict whom he helped when he was a child by giving some food and a file. The escaped convict whom later known as Provis pays Pip’s study in London and becomes a gentleman. That is why, he chooses the title “The Analysis of Social Conflicts in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations”.           This research is aimed at finding social conflicts undergone by Pip, Miss. Havisham, Provis and Orlick. Therefore, he formulates statement of the problems 1) What are social conflict undergone by Pip? 2) What are social conflict undergone by Miss. Havisham?, 3) What are Social conflict undergone by Provis? And 4) What are social conflict undergone by Orlick?.  The Objectives of this research are: 1) to describe the social conflict undergone by Pip, 2) to describe the social conflict undergone by Miss. Havisham, 3) to describe the social conflict undergone by Provis and  4) to describe the social conflict undergone by Orlick.           The researcher in discussing this problems uses many quotations taken from the Novel Great Expectations, and many references. They are taken in chapter II in form of Review of Related Literature. It looks that this research is Qualitative research by using descriptive text analysis. He uses Phenomenological approach as the basis of discussion. The object is the social conflict undergone by four main characters and the subject is the novel Great Expectations. After being analyzed, he finds that Pip undergoes social conflict with Estella, Mrs. Joe Gargery, Herbert, Orlick, Bentle Drummle and Miss. Havisham. Miss. Havisham experiences social conflict with Estella, Campeyson, and her relatives. Provis has social conflict with Compeyson,  Orlick has social conflict with Mrs. Joe and Biddy. In fact, if it is examined closely, the conflicts happen around the problems of love either love relationship between Pip and Estella, Estella and Drummle, Compeyson and Miss. Havisham and Orlick with Biddy.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-222
Author(s):  
Karin Kukkonen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
4E Cognition ◽  
The Media

The conclusion shows that several of the embodied aspects of writing fiction discussed for the eighteenth-century novel can be traced into the nineteenth century through an example from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. It is shown that, like the earlier authors in the case studies in this book, Dickens features shifting embodied stances and involves elements of the media ecology of his day rather than deploying the concrete particulars that “formal realism” considers central to the novel. Links to larger arguments about the role of the novel in literary history are then drawn in contrast with accounts, based on Adorno/Habermas and Benjamin, that argue that eighteenth-century fiction becomes rationalised and disembodied with the novel and its culture industry. Rather than impoverishing experience, it is argued that the novel as a lifeworld technology depends profoundly on readers’ embodied engagements and that 4E cognition is a critical perspective that affords such an alternative take.

Culture Reproduction in The Charles Dickens' Novel “Great Expectations” (Pierre-Felix Bourdieu Theory)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Askar Nur
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Valid Data ◽  
Concept Theory ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research discusses about culture reproduction in the Charles Dickens’ novel “Great Expectations” and aims to find out the process of culture reproduction in the novel Great Expectations. The researcher used culture reproduction (habitus and field concept) theory of Pierre-Felix Bourdieu. This research focuses on culture reproduction occurred in Great Expectations. The data were analyzed using a descriptive qualitative method to identify, describe and analyze the data that found in the novel Great Expectations. The researcher used coding sheet as the instrument to find out the valid data. This research conducted to answer the problems that concerning how the culture reproduction occurred in the novel. The findings show that there are some phenomena which supported the process of culture reproduction occurred according to Bourdieu, as following the phenomena of culture reproduction in the old and new culture based on habitus and field concept and its dialectical relation. The researcher concludes that the dialectical relation between old and new habitus, the old and new arena (field) or between unwillingness to return to old life and also unwillingness to live in new life makes Pip get in a new phase of life by bringing his old culture and current culture.

scholarly journals Representation Analysis of “Great Expectation” Novel by Charles Dickens

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Luthfiansyah Luthfiansyah ◽  
Mildan Arsdan Fidinillah
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Life Time ◽  
Individual Growth ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Great Expectation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Queen Victoria

<p>This research examines the novel ‘The Great Expectation’. Researchers are interested in analyzing this novel because it is a picture of real life, especially life in the United Kingdom in the days of Queen Victoria. As a realistic writer, Charles Dickens is through people’s descriptions reflect reality in his life time. This research uses the theory of semiotics which is collaborated with Karl Marx’s theory which reveals class strata. In the science of semiotics, everything, even humans can be made a sign, which can be developed into a myth of life. Seeing from the main actor’s novel, Pip, Everyone still has a lot to learn, such as his kindness, strength, and optimism. Individual growth is the process of growing into a perfect self. Although Pip’s great hopes are disappointing, he finally returns to good moral character, and starts a new life. In addition, this study analyzes the style of the main character Pip which has its own points in interpreting the style of dress. In this novel, researchers want to prove that the style of dress can be a tool to prove the formation of a person’s identity or the identity of a particular group that uses it.</p>

scholarly journals The Culture Reproduction In the Charles Dickens’ Novel “Great Expectations” (Pierre-Felix Bourdieu Theory)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
Askar Nur
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Cultural Reproduction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Valid Data ◽  
Concept Theory ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research discusses cultural reproduction in Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations and aims to discover the process of cultural reproduction in the novel. The researcher used the culture reproduction (habitus and field concept) theory of Pierre-Felix Bourdieu. This research focuses on culture reproduction that occurred in Great Expectations. The data were analyzed using a descriptive qualitative method to identify, describe and analyze the data found in the novel. The researcher used a coding sheet as the instrument to find out the valid data. This research is conducted to answer the problems that concerning how cultural reproduction occurred in the novel. According to Bourdieu, the findings show that some phenomena supported the process of cultural reproduction, as following the phenomena of cultural reproduction in the old and new culture based on habitus and field concept and its dialectical relation. The researcher concludes that the dialectical relation between old and new habitus, the old and new arena (field) or between unwillingness to return to old life and unwillingness to live in new life makes Pip get into a new phase of life by bringing his old culture and current culture.

Human and Inhuman Transformations in Nancy Huston's Dystopian Novel Le Club des miracles relatifs

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-324
Author(s):  
Susan Ireland ◽  
Patrice J. Proulx
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Literature ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mining Site ◽  
Tar Sands ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transnational Space ◽  
Negative Form

Huston's Le Club des miracles relatifs takes up familiar themes from the author's corpus and transposes them into a disturbing dystopian tale about the destruction of the Earth and the devalorization of humanity in the tar sands of Alberta. Through its combination of speculative fiction and environmental literature, Huston's hybrid text attests to the creative dynamism of her œuvre. This essay examines the diverse types of mobility present in the text, from the physical migration of characters and the transformation of the natural environment to the recurrent use of intertextual references and the dialogue between the novel and the collection of essays in Brut: la ruée vers l'or noir. In particular, it explores the representation of the mining site as a translingual, transnational space and discusses the ways in which Huston depicts the social injustice resulting from environmental destruction as a negative form of progress.

scholarly journals The Impact of Capitalist Psychology of Mid Victorian Erain Charles Dickens’ Novel Great Expectations

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Muna Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
First Person ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
The Impact

My thesis argues that Charles Dickens reflects the capitalist psychology of mid Victorian London in his novel Great Expectations. It is fully narrated in the first person and a time conquering master piece of Charles Dickens. In this novel, he touches on expectations in the life of diverse characters, the greatest of which being the expectation of Pip, the central character of the novel and also his moves from childhood to adulthood. He portrays how difficult it is for a lower class person to become a gentleman. The life for the upper class is easy but the life for the lower class is hard and painful in Victorian England. He vividly represents the existing picture of the society working in the minds of various characters and their expectations. Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection and the eventual triumph of good over evil.The purpose of this study is to describe the writer’s view of capitalism and its consequences such as ending of family units, illness, mutual exploitation, human passions, expectations and selfishness through character and plot.

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