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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
1.Dickens's life
* Bom in Portsmouth in 1812.
* Unhappy childnood: he had
to work in a factory at the age
of 12 (his father went to prison
for debts).
* He became a newspaper
reporter with the pen name
Boz.
* In 1836 Sketches by Boz,
articles about London people
and scenes, were published in
instalments.
Evert A. Duyckinick, Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
3. Dickens's characters
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* Dickens shifted the social
frontiers of the novel
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* the 18th-century realistic
upper middle-class world
Was replaced by the one of
the lower orders.
* He depicted Victorian
society in all its variety, its
richness and its squalor.
Charles Dickens
3. Dickens's characters
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He created:
*caricatures + he exaggerated
and ridiculed peculiar social
characteristics of the middle,
lower and lowest classes;
*weak female characters.
He was on the side of the poor,
the outcast, the working-class.
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Charles Dickens
4. Dickens's themes
* Family, childhood and poverty
> the subjects to which he
returned time and again.
* Dickens's children are either
innocent or corrupted by
adults.
* Most of these children begin in negative circumstances and
rise to happy endings which resolve the contradictions in
their life created by the adult world.
Charles Dickens
é\ |6. Dickens's style
Dickens's style + very rich and original
The main stylistic features of his novels are:
«long list of objects and people;
*adjectives used in pairs or in group of three and four;
‘several details, not strictly necessary.
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Charles Dickens
6. Dickens's style
Dickens's style + very rich and origina!
The main stylistic features of his novels are:
*Repetitions of the same word/s and/or sentence structure.
«The same concept/s is/are expressed more than once, but
with different words.
*Use of antithetical images in order to underline the
characters’ features
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Charles Dickens
6. Dickens's style
Dickens's style + very rich and original
The main stylistic features of his novels are:
*Exaggeration of the characters’ faults.
*Suspense at the end of the episodes or introduction of a
sensational event to keep the readers' interest.
fN |9. Hard Times (1854)
* Itis a‘denunciation novel’ > a
powerful accusation of some of
the negative effects of industrial |
society .
* The setting > Coketown, an
imaginary industrialised town.
* Characters > people living and
working in Coketown, like the
protagonist Thomas Gradgrind,
È 1 HARD TIMES.
an educator who believes in Mi
facts and statistics DOOK THE FIRST. SOWING.
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Charles Dickens
9. Hard Times (1854)
Themes:
“a critic of materialism and Utilitarianism;
“a denunciation of the ugliness and squalor of the new
industrial age;
“the gap between the rich and the poor.
Aim > to illustrate the dangers of allowing people to become
like machines.
