BILDUNGSROMAN I RAZVITAK LIČNOSTI – VELIKA OČEKIVANJA ČARLSA DIKENSA
BILDUNGSROMAN AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: CHARLES DICKENS’ GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Summary/Abstract: This paper traces the elements of the Bildungsroman in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations – how an individual infuences others, and how a certain event can trigger a whole series of circumstances that develop and reveal themselves before readers. The novel contains not only the elements of the protagonist’s maturing process, and the formation of other characters’ personalities, but it also depicts the class relations and social criticism of the Victorian England. Te paper analyses the elements of Bildungsroman, a novel which follows the protagonists’ spiritual development through learning and life experience. Great Expectations traces the main protagonist’s development from early childhood to fnishing his education to adulthood, when he becomes able to fulfll moral requirements towards himself and the society.

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