ELEMENTS OF REALISM IN GREAT EXPECTATIONS – HARDSHIP AND INNOCENCE
ELEMENTS OF REALISM IN GREAT EXPECTATIONS – HARDSHIP AND INNOCENCE

Summary/Abstract: Charles Dickens was a representative writer for the realistic period of the 19th century. He is known both as a novelist and as a literary critic. This paper presents a few aspects of realism in literature and the way its representatives depicted everyday experiences and real life stories. The author manifested a particular interest in emphasizing the gap between social classes that characterized Dickens’s epoch, the working conditions and harsh treatment applied to children. All these elements are described with mastery in „Great Expectations”. The novel reveals the specific themes of the century: innocence, human weakness, love, friendship, burning ambitions, destiny. Against all odds, the spectacular events have a happy ending, turning the novel into an experience that has fascinated generations of readers.

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