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The setting of Dickens’s novels
DISSE was the great novelist of cities, especially London, depicted a
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*the parochial world of the workhouses:its inhabitants belong to
the lower middle class;
. “the criminal world: murderers, pickpockets living in squalid
slums;
*the Victorian middle class: respectable people believing in human
dignity.
Detailed description of ‘Seven Dials’, a notorious slum district: its sense of disorientation and
confinement is clearly expressed in Dickens's novels.
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Dickens shifted the social frontiers of the novel
- the 18th-century realistic upper middle-class world was rep
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- He depicted Victorian Society in'all'its variety, its richness and its squalor.
_ He created:
! *«caricatures:he exaggerated and ridiculed peculiar social characteri:
_ lowest classes;
: mweak female characters.
- He was on the side of the poor, the outcast, the working-class.
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È Dickens’s;ithemes
- * 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.
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“ . Dickens tried to get thecommonmintelligence of the country to:alleviate:social:sufferingso
1 He was a campaigning novelist and his books highlight all the great Victorian controversies:
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n * 3, Scandals;inprivate:schools:David Copperfield
- Dickens tried to get the common intelligence of the country to alleviate social sufferings.
- * He was a campaigning novelist and his books highlight all the great Victorian controversies:
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Dickens's style
Dickens's style is very rich and original
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.
- Exaggeration of the characters’ faults.
-Suspense at the end of the episodes or introduction
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of a sensational event to keep the readers’
