Charles Dickens is the greatest writer since Shakespeare in modern English literature.Great Expectations is a typical display of Dickens' s excellent writing skills and mature outlook of life.The novel is narrated...Charles Dickens is the greatest writer since Shakespeare in modern English literature.Great Expectations is a typical display of Dickens' s excellent writing skills and mature outlook of life.The novel is narrated from the first person that can be further divided into two separate kinds of viewpoint bearing different functions-the first person retrospective viewpoint and the first person experiencing viewpoint.This paper analyzes the function of the application of the two kinds of viewpoint with an expectation of deepening our study of Dickens' s writing skills and bettering our understanding of this novel.展开更多
文摘Charles Dickens is the greatest writer since Shakespeare in modern English literature.Great Expectations is a typical display of Dickens' s excellent writing skills and mature outlook of life.The novel is narrated from the first person that can be further divided into two separate kinds of viewpoint bearing different functions-the first person retrospective viewpoint and the first person experiencing viewpoint.This paper analyzes the function of the application of the two kinds of viewpoint with an expectation of deepening our study of Dickens' s writing skills and bettering our understanding of this novel.