：论远大前程中社会因素对皮普爱慕虚荣性格的影响.docVIP

Social factors on the development of pip’s vanity in Great Expectations Abstract This paper studies the social factors on the development of pip’s vanity in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. It argues that, compared with other factors that affect pip’s vanity, social factors has its own distinguishing affects, and that is, it straightly pushes pip to be a vanity man with various ways. The combination of the social factors and pip’s vanity through the exploration of the following three aspects, namely social factors with his terrible educational background, social factors combined with his poor family situation and social factors tinted with the cruelty of the bourgeoisie will be closely examined in this paper. In this way it plans to prove that social factors are the factor that straightly pushes pip to be a vanity man. Keywords: social factors; terrible educational background; poor family situation; cruelty of the bourgeoisie 论远大前程中影响皮普性格发展的因素 Contents Number of pages: 16 1 Introduction 1 2 Pip’s Character of Vanity 2 2.1 A Brief Introduction to the Victorian Age 3 2.2 The Prototype of Pip in Great Expectation 4 2.3 His Vanity in Great Expectations 5 3 The Social Factors that Mold Pip’s Vanity 6 3.1 His Terrible Educational Background 7 3.2 His Poor Family Situation 8 3.3 The Cruelty of the Bourgeoisie 9 3.3.1 Vengeful and Wealthy Miss Havisham 10 3.3.2 Indulgent and Hypocritical Mr. Jaggers 11 4 Conclusion 12 Notes 13 References 14 Acknowledgement 15 Declaration 16 Introduction Dickens was one of the most influential writers of the 19th century, played a crucial Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens (7 February 1812–9 June 1870). He contributed greatly to the development of the writing style in?British Literature. Through his numerous works，he exposed the readers to different aspects of the times he lived in and explored the unfairness and hypocrisy of the capitalist society and he analysis that the social factors that we lived in influences the f