Great Expectations 연구 = A Study on Great Expectations

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Dickens has figured in more theses and dissertations than any other victorian.
Great Expectations is one of his master pieces. Criticism of this novel has stressed both the moral seriousness and the technical achievement.
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the novel focusing on novel-typology, technique, view of life and morality.
First, this work belongs to novels of development and shows many distintive features of detective story; In the vertical structure it belongs to novels of development and in the horizontal structure many features of detective story are found.
In this respect Dickens made a great contribution to establishing the tradition of the both types.
Second, Dickens chooses the discursive method which simply tells us about characters. His distintive methods of characterization lie in the portrayal of character's outlook or appearance and habits.
Third, Dickens presents readers the way of behaving and living as a true gentle-man. In the novel we find the fact that those who belong to the class of a gentle-man are not gentleman-like and the other way, those who don't belong to the class are truely gentleman-like. Dickens tells us that it makes little difference whether one is a gentleman or not. What truely makes a gentleman depends on not one's outward show but one's heart and manner.
Fourth, Judging from punitive deaths and rewarded marriages shown in the novel, We can read the author's will or aspiration toward virtue through his in-tended moral distribution.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론
• Ⅱ. 본론
• 1. Novels of Development로 본 작품세계
• 2. Detective Story로서의 특징
• 3. Characterization의 방식
• 4. 신사관 고찰
• 5. 죽음과 결혼을 통해 본 작가의 moral distribution
• Ⅲ. 결론