The Visuality And Characterization In Great Expectations

The characterization of Great Expectations is full of graphic scenes which are featured by multiple colors,allegorical objects and special observation perspectives.In these graphic scenes,different characters illustrate different personalities,and show capitalist society's influence and control on the characters.Under the interplay of the observer and the observed,each individual is one circle of the large social web,who is pushed by the invisible power of the capitalist "society of the spectacle."This thesis mainly focuses on Great Expectations,Dickens's 13th novel.A large amount of research on this novel is on the subjects and narrative strategies.This thesis argues that the graphics scenes of multiple iconic features and the blending of various elements are made to illustrate the characterization under the capitalist society of the spectacle.The thesis mainly focuses on the relationship between the graphic features of these scenes and Dickens's characterization from the perspective of modern iconology and close reading,demonstrating its multiple iconic and graphic meanings in these scenes in order to show the invisible power of the capitalist society on the objectified characters.This thesis firstly introduces Great Expectations as well as the author's life experiences and iconological theories.It also illustrates why iconological theories are a good fit for analyzing this work.Based on this theory,it analyzes the iconic and graphic features in the picturesque scenes of objectified characters as well as the dramatic scenes and the interplay of observer and observed in the book,showing the invisible power of the capitalist society economically,morally and sexually over the objectified characters.The thesis then suggests that the personification shown in the graphic scenes is in fact a representation of invisible power of capitalist society,It aims to illustrate that while many objectified characters have been made visible through different visual techniques,they are still under the control and influence of the invisible power of objectification as a result of the economy,morality and sexual consciousness of Victorian era.