Dorothy Van Ghent's Great Expectations
In analysing Great Expectations, Dorothy Van Ghent maintains that there are two kinds of crime that drive the moral plot of the novel: the crime of parent against child and the calculated social crime "of turning the individual into a machine". Thus, in the same way that the parent or the parent figure abuses the child, social authority also participates in creating parents who participate in the dehumanization of the children. (sons heir of fathers sin, repeat in society over n over)
Van Ghent puts forward many of her ideas in an extremely extravagant, descriptive and floury manner, which at times is difficult to follow.
I feel that Van Ghent approaches `Great Expectations` from a mainly`Psychoanalytical literary criticism approach`,
Van Ghent puts forward many of her ideas in an extremely extravagant, descriptive and floury manner, which at times is difficult to follow.
I feel that Van Ghent approaches `Great Expectations` from a mainly`Psychoanalytical literary criticism approach`,