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2 Sen Portsmouth, he had an unhappy chidhood: when he was 12 he had to work in a factory because his father was
Hogan and pT debis. He began his career asa joumalist for the running Chronicle with the pn name Boz. He married Catherine
inivaliy mepie> had ten children. He travel to America and to Italy for lecture tour. He produced an immense number of novels,
en Published as instalment in magazines and then as complete books. He also wrote for theatre and performend in front of
Queen Victoria. He died in 1870 and was buried in Westminister Abbey.
na = so novels are family, childhood, poverty. The characters are caricatures: he exaggerated and ridiculed j
ea Ponta SE Of the classes. He wrote very quickly under pressure of his publishers. He needed to mantaîn the
pecsusio the conii Lr li gmother so he ended each episode with a tum of event whche create suspanse. His novel"s aim was to
salib or losal se intel ligence of the ‘country to alleviate the social suffering. He also highlight the vicotiran controversies: the
‘0yal system, the living condition in the slums and the horrors of the factory employment.
COKETOWN
o nr A enurie Taken by Hard Times (1854) of Dickens. 105 set during {he Victorian age in Coketown, an imaginary
Paidoni ni ape of a typical industrial tomun. ( the term coke refers to a mineral used to produce iron). The text
SEO ma fs an industrial city in wich people never have fun, the days are always the same and the buildings are all
Lee ii È ring and Pollouted city, full of smoke and industrial machine.
Dick 1s told by a 3rd person ‘omniscient narrator explicity interacting with the reader. Its full of figure speech; for example
pc xens uses a methapor ( comparison between two things) to describe the smoke of the machines=> “interminable serpents
of smoke that ‘never got uncoiled”. Dickes uses a simile (one thing is compared to another with words like or as) to compare
he steam-engine t0 the head ofan elephant n a state of melancholy madness. He uses colours like red, purple, black to
describe the city. He also use the repetition of some words or expressions to highlights the monotony and the uniformity of
the city ( same; like one another; every )
* the theme of this text is the industriitation oftowns, and the aim is to make the reader aware of the condition of towns and
Of all the problems like pollution, life’s monotony and the consequent alienation of the industrial revolution. The new
relationship between man and nature in the work” setting.
COMPARISON BETWEEN OLIVER WANTS SOME MORE AND COKETOWN
The two text are taken from two works Charles Dickes: Oliver Twist and Hard Times. Both of the two passage highlight differents
problems of the Victorian Age. Oliver wants some more deal with problems like the child id the workhouses
and it highlight the differences between the aristocratic world and the poverty condition. Instead in Coketow Dickens want to
highlight the consenqueces of the industralitation of the cities in the works setting and on people”s life. The first text is both a
description and dialogue while the second one i is only a description of the city and people's life. Both of the texts are told by a
3rd person omniscient narrator who allow the reader understand character”s thoughts and personalities. In the two texts Dickens
use a lot of adiectives ti describes the setting in place and in particulare in Coketow he uses colurs and some figure speech like
metaphor and simile.
