CHARLES
DICKENS
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CHARLES
DICKENS
Life and works
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth , 1812 Unhappy childhood his father was imprisoned for debt and at the age of 12 he was put to work in a factory Family finances improved his father was released and he was sent to a school in London He found employment as an office boy at a lawyer’s and studied shorthand at night By 1832 A very successful shorthand reporter of parliamentary debates in the House of Commons Began to work as a reporter for a newspaper In 1833 appeared his first story – pen name «Boz» publishing Sketches by «boz» Collection of articles and tales describing London’s people and scenes for the periodical Monthly Magazine 1/ It was followed by The poshumous paper of the Pickwick Club Revealed his humoristic and satirical qualities
Life and works
Protagonists of his autobiographical novels: Oliver Twist , David Copperfield and Little Dorrit
symbols of an exploited childhood confronted
with the realities of slums and factories
Other works: Bleak House
Hard Times
Great Expectations
conditions of the poor and the working class
Charles Dickens had met princes and presidents and had amassed fortune
Life and works
He suddenly died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1870 in Kent and was buried in
Westminster Abbey
Characters
e 18° century realistic, upper middle class world was replaced by the one of the lower orders
His aim: to arouse the reader’s interest by exaggerating his characters’ habits
He was on the side of the poor, the outcast and the
working class
Children = the most important characters
The examples instead of the imitators
Didactic aim :
To make the ruling classes aware of the social
problems
The wealthier classes acquired
knowledge about their poorer
neighbours
Style
Characteristics of Dickens’s style :
Effective language
Careful choice of adjectives
Repetition of words and structures
Juxtapositions of images and ideas
Hyperbolic and ironic remarks