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CHARLES DICKENS - Coggle Diagram
CHARLES DICKENS
LIFE
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unhappy childhood: his father was imprisoned for debt, he was put to work in a factory
when family finances improved, he was sent to a school in London
at 15 he became an office boy at a lawyer's, studied shorthand writing
bacame a succesful shorthand reporter of parliamentary debates in the House of Commons, worked as a reporter for newspaper
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married Catherine Hogarth, started a full-time carrer as a novelist (continuing journalistic and editiorial activities)
republican, but took against USA (American Notes), advocated international copyright and abolition of slavery
died in Kent, buried in Westminster Abbey
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STYLE AND INSPIRATIONS
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powerful descriptions (careful choice of adjectives, repetition of words, juxtapositions of images and ideas)
inspiration from the Bible, fairy tales, fables
well-planned plots, even if sometime artificial and episodic
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OLIVER TWIST
Oliver Twist is a poor boy, born in a worhouse, he asks form more food and then he is sold to an undertaken. He is part of a gang of pickpockets, trained by Fagin. Mr Brownlow takes care of him, but Oliver is kidnapped by Faigin's gang. Oliver is adopted by Mr Brownlow and it's discovered that he has noble origins
setting: London in 3 levels (parochial world of workhouses, the criminal world, world of Victorian middle class)