C. DICKENS - Oliver Twist, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica C. DICKENS - Oliver Twist e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! CHARLES DICKENS he stopped studing when he was a child because his father went to prison -> "bread winner" he worked as a reporter - he was in touch with the public, he knew whatpeople wanted =HE STARTED WRITINS BECAUSEITWAS AGOOD WAY TO CAIN G He was a really prolific Author: he wrote in serials so he published his novels in different parts and waited for the public to react TUPES OF NOVELS -MELODRAMAS:sad, unhappy children, orphans I Oliver Twist Che did notinvent anything, itwas realityI -BILDUNGSROMAN:about he developmentofthe hero - SOCIALNOVELS:aboutsocial issues -PICARESQUENOVEL: the transformation ofa naive character b completed with marriage the only he wrote was "Pickquick Papers"Pickquick is the main character -CARICATURE =exaggeration of features/flaws HE COUDN'T SEE WHEREHEWAS COINO I public laughed At the end he changes Some Dickens' novels are considered tobe autobiographic ex. David Copperfield:the mostautobiographical novel SETTING mostly in the city, urban environment:Dickens lived there is whole life so he knows everythin aboutitI -> He presents the problems brought by the end. Rev CHARACTERS ~lower middle classhis novels are crowded:lots of people the characters are mostly from the MIDLE-CASS because they were the people he knew In the Victorian Age, after the abolition ofthe boor law poor people were notgiven shiller and food anymore Families were split and ended in worknouses where they worked to have a place and food:"GRUEL"=MANY ORPHANS WEREN'T REAL ORPHANS IRON:Dickens said that he poors had the choice to starve for 1 week in the streetor to stare in 1 month in the WH