Uplook 1

                                                                 暗地圣婴

 

 

 

 

Daniel's notes: I guess it's so much for today, I am gonna continue writing this novel, hoping that you, readers, would kinda support and encourage me in doing so.

Let's get back to what I have promised to say about the Chinese title of this novel I have chosen as “暗地圣婴”. Remember I told you about the novel created by Charles Dickens in the later part of his life--"Great Expectations". Dickens was then in a state of realistic turmoil and emotional breakdown. From the first novel" The Pickwick Papers" which made a celebrity of Dickens, in whose novel Dickens wrote about the heroic deeds and the "good would finally defeat evil" to the Half-tragidic Great Expectations, Dickens had undergone a lotta pain and unjust.

 

When "Great Expectations" was first introduced to China, some translator translated the novel as 伟大的期望, which seems to a lot of guys faithful, right?

Hold it, babe

Every story has a plot and usually many lines connecting the good story. And some words, especially the title has denotations which are more than the superficial (the surface meaning).

From the beginning of the novel up till the end, the tone was Dark, Dark, and Dark, if one could use the color to describe the book. Actually when one reads the novel carefully, a bit tasting it, one could really see the color of the novel, i.e. dark,and the taste bitter.

Pip, the main character, was lonesome, helpless, unprotected and scared about the unkown violent world all the time.

Up till now, I, Daniel, don't see the Great Expectations here, rather,it's Gray Expectations.

Then Pip met Estella, the former falling in love, but only from his side, Pip began to desire to make a gentleman of himself, Pip worked hard with all that he could.

Here, we could see Pip was developing the Great Expectations deep down inside.

But Dickens,  never mentioned Great Expectations until the debut of the London Lawyer, Mr Jaggers, who announced to the boy, like he was doing that in the court," I now announce you the boy of Great Expectations."

What Mr Jaggers said highlighted the title, and this great expectations was often repeated, doubted from now on in Pip's heart.

The Japanese translated this book as Ooki na isai（庞大的遗产，意思二是锦绣前程）Good for the Japanese, they got both the surface and deep down meaning interpreted.

续