Great Expectations Book Reviews

"Great Expectations" is of great significance to modern society, especially in the industrialization and urbanization of China. The development of the material world has led to a fanatical pursuit of material things. People become realistic and utilitarian, money, material satisfaction has become the driving force of all the pursuit. So we were surprised to find that the most popular major is always the most profitable major; The truth that "360 lines make a champion" is cast aside; The principle of "follow your heart" is difficult to put into practice; "Reality" prevails, "ideal" is difficult. Driven by the social environment, people rush forward desperately for the so-called "great expectations," fighting for a "head broken and bleeding" but never stop to explore their inner spiritual needs and pursuits. At the same time, although the hierarchy has been eliminated, today's social inequality due to differences in status is still rooted in some groups. The phenomenon that the disadvantaged groups are not valued and respected often occurs while the people with power and status are elevated and touted. This deformed social value orientation will lead to the birth of countless "Pips." Won't it end up like Pip? Will you not find that the original self has been lost, the most precious value has been "buried"? For personal development, the reference meaning of this book is the same. How have we not, like Pip, moved from the carefree state of nature as a child into the complex social melting pot? How can the real society's colorful and attractive interests not challenge our hearts? We are ambitious, we strive to be recognized by the world, and we are unconsciously assimilated into the secular society. Have we ever thought about whether what the mainstream of society praises is really valuable, whether it is what we really pursue? Have you been "washed" by the society's material desires, and are you still the same? In fact, "Great Expectations" warns us that it is nothing more than a kind of return or a persistence. For the society, it is necessary to cool down the material and impetuous, and not let the material encroach on our primitive natural spiritual world; For the individual, need to have independent thought, to distinguish the true and false, uphold the original heart. This procedure is very difficult, because the two itself is a contradictory loop body. The individual's ideology comes from the education of the society, and the awakened society comes from the awakened individual. The burden of breaking this vicious circle, it seems to me, falls on the intellectuals. A well-educated intellectual can break free from the shackles of the environment, go deep into the nature of the problem, and judge things independently. Intellectuals' exploration and awareness of the true value of human beings and the meaning of life can be spread through their influence on the world, thus gradually changing the development trend of society as a whole. Of course, the part that the society acts is also very important, expand the economy steadily namely, the sublimation of mental world of people offerred premise. We call people to wake up. As Dickens suggested, Pip came out of the vain "dream" and returned to the fullness of the heart. We do not need to pursue social regression, only to seek a change, a progress. No matter how rough the road. How far we can go in the pursuit of spiritual wealth and equality will ultimately determine people's happiness.