Scarica DICKENS + OLIVER TWIST e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! OLIVER TWIST DI DICKENS CHARLES DICKENS (1812 - 1870) Dickens had an unhappy childhood, in fact his father was prisoned for debt and he had to work in a factory since the age of twelve. These days of sufferings inspired much of the content of his novels. He became a newspaper report and he wrote his novels in a monthly magazine in the form of instalments. Dickens was obsessed with children, whom he presented as either innocent or corrupted by adults. At the beginning, they live through a negative situation but later rise to happy endings. The writer's nostalgia for the innocence of childhood is a critique of the oppressions associated with the world of adults. He wanted gradual reforms, not revolutions. He wasn’t a socialist. Dickens belongs to the first generation of victorian novelists, so he speaks about his own time and about social changes. In particular he criticizes some aspects of society (law-workhouses), but he respects the structure and the political system in general, while the second generation novelists were conscious of hypocrisy of their own time and they criticize all the aspects of society. Dickens' ultimate message is to show the value of imagination, art, and human connection in a place dominated by fact and rationality OLIVER TWIST DICKENS COMMENTO In his novels the events are narrated by a third person NARRATOR (ommnitient), but often they are seen through the eyes of the protagonist, a child, so the events are distorted and are full of gothic elements. Most of Dickens’s characters belong to the lower-middle class, the class which Dickens knew best and to which he was the first to assign the role of protagonist in fiction. Dickens combines the sentimental and melodramatic story of an orphaned child exploited by a gang of thieves with social satire and realism. He tackles (affronta) important social issues such as the New Poor Law which assigned workhouses to the poor where living conditions were very bad. Poverty during the Victorian period was terrible. Many children lived in very bad conditions, so it was very common for many of them to choose a life of crime rather than start work. The comic element helps highlight serious problems such as social injustice. Dickens mixes social criticism with portrayals of characters such as Mr. Bumble, a man who characterizes the petty bureaucrat's excessive self-importance
