Abstract:“The Great Expectation” was an excellently educational novel of Charles Dickens in his latter life. The description of the characters and their personality was the center part of Dickens’ works. “The Great Expectation” has a close connection with the childhood experience of the author. Charles Dickens revealed social values of people who lived in the Victoria Age. “The Great Expectation” mainly described that the positive characters and negative characters pursued their own “great expectations”. To some degree, after their own “great expectations” were disillusioned, their personality had changed. The paper aims to analyze how characters’ personality changed with the change of the surroundings. But in the final analysis, they do not lose their nature of personality, and come back to the old lifestyle. What’s more, experiencing the disappearance of “great expectations”, their characters greatly matured.

Keywords: Pip; Estella; Miss Havisham; Magwitch; personality

摘要:《远大前程》是英国小说家狄更斯晚期一部优秀的教育小说，对人物及性格的描写是狄更斯作品的中心，此作品与作者痛苦的童年经历有着密切联系，通过此作品作者揭露了维多利亚时期人们的追求与社会价值观。《远大前程》主要是围绕两个正面人物和两个负面人物的成长历程而展开的。在各自的远大前程破灭后，每个人的性格都得到了某种程度的变化。本文旨在分析两类人物的性格随着周围环境的变化而改变，但最后所有人的性格本性并未改变，人性得到回归，而且在经历了远大前程的破灭后，性格都得到了更好的完善。

关键词：匹普；艾斯黛拉；郝微特小姐；麦格维奇；性格