Riassunto su Charles Dickens e Oliver Twist, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica Riassunto su Charles Dickens e Oliver Twist e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Charles Dickens life He was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, the second of eight siblings. When he was twelve his father was imprisoned for debts and was joined by most of the family. Charles’ education was interrupted and he was forced to work ten-hour days in a “blocking” factory (making shoe polish). He suffered from loneliness and hardship, but all his experiences served as material for him in his future work. He started his career as a journalist and he became a parliamentary reporter. He published a series of sketches using the pseudonym “Boz”. Then he started his brilliant career with his first novel “Pickwick Papers”. He traveled to America and then to Italy. Dickens also wrote for the theater and performed in front of Queen Victoria. He had ten children and later left his wife for the actress Ellen Temon. He died in 1870. Nogror works and themes Charles Dickens novels range from the lively and entertaining humor of the “PickWick Papers' ' to the flowing of “The old curiosity shop”. His great gift was inventiveness. He created a whole world of characters, exaggerated, with some distinctive peculiarity of speech, physical appearance or gesture, but unforgettable. His sympathy with the oppressed, his indignation against social injustice, made him one of the most significant voices in the Victorian Age. His masterpiece is “Oliver Twist”, which marks the beginning of social criticism, with the denunciation of the exploitation of children and the cruelty of the workhouses. Other important works: ● “A Christmas Card” ● “Dombey and son” ● “David Copperfield” a coming of age novel ● “Break House” ● “Hard Times” ● “Great Expectations” a coming of age novel Dickens’ Plots Dickens wrote very copiously and quickly. He needed to maintain his readers interest: he did so through serial publication and by ending each episode with a dramatic turn of events that provoked suspense in the reader, who would naturally buy the next issue to learn how the story continued. He also used a lot of characters, climaxes and improbable coincidences.