A Sacrifice in the Male-dominated Society：on the Image of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations 英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

A Sacrifice in the Male-dominated Society：on the Image of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations Abstract：Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realistic writers of the Victorian Age. In his Great Expectations, many vivid female characters are created, leaving deep impression of all countries. Miss Havisham is one of the most impressive creations and the description of her tragedy displays the corruption of the society. In this paper, the tragedy of Miss Havisham will be analyzed from the feminist point of view, aiming at exploring her tragic life and revealing wowen’s fate in the male-dominated society. Key words：Miss Havisham; tragic fate; dominated society 1 Introduction Generally regarded as the greatest literary geniuses of his time in Victorian England. Charles Dickens(1812-1870)enjoyed a wider popularity than any previous author had done during his lifetime “because of the magnitude of his artistic achievement and because of the comprehensiveness of the picture in gives of his age ”.[1] Dickens’s later work Great Expectations(1861), which is considered as his artistic masterpiece. Is the most perfectly constructed of all Dickens’s novels. “Surely the characters in Great Expectations are the greatest collection in all of English fiction.”[2] as Keith love asserted in the introduction to Great Expectations. It is no doubt that Dickens skillfully portrays all the characters and makes all of them impressing and vivid. Among them, Miss Havisham is certainly one of the most strange and memorable creations in the story. Her horrible dressing, Grotesque life style and mad behavior impressed the readers so much that most people treat her as evil. Actually, she is a tragic female character worthy of sympathy. In this paper. The tragedy of this female character Miss Havisham will be analyzed from the feminist point of view, aiming at exploring her tragic life and revealing wowen’s fate in the male-dominated society. 2 Literature Review of Great Expectation