Realism and Romanticism in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and A Structuralist Analysis by Yogi Emirza
Uploaded by yogiemirza on Dec 21, 2011
Great Expectations, the novel was first published in 1861, this is one of the best work of an English novelist, Charles Dickens (1812-1870), he is well-known and best writers in the era of Victoria. He wrote extensively about smelling things a social life, with poured in his writings, many people who say that Dickens is a realist writer. Once that happens the best novel of this, he raised the bitter life of a person to get a great hope that it may be impossible for him. In the story of Great Expectation, we will find a struggle, ambition, contempt, sadness, power, happiness, fear, and love.
Great Expectations is a realist novel that also has a romantic element in the story, although more condensed realist elements in the story, it feels romantic elements that makes sense of his readers to be swept away when felt a scene described by Dickens. The combination of realism and romanticism of the plot turns make it a pleasure to explore. How can the opposite of realism and romance combine in the unity of this story.
Synopsis
In the story, Dickens gave the name 'Pip' as the main character and also the narrator, he is a poor orphan who lives with his sister, his parents had died when she was a baby, he did not know what they face, "As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of Them (Their days were the resource persons for long before the days of photographs )...". Chapter 1. He has an expectation of becoming a gentlemen that 'Estella', beautiful women and wealthy be his woman, he struggled to get all these expectations, although the accompanying failure. In his struggle to get the 'Estella', Pip many getting help from people he had ever known, so he arrived in London to learn and become gentlemen. There he began to feel how to be gentlemen, he began to forget the Joe who used a lot of help, he began to be people who like to squander his money, until one day his sister died. And also Estella, his ideal woman married with another man. It made his heart was break.
Pip found out that the person who gave the funds, a convict who ever make he fear, how...