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CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) - Coggle Diagram
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870)
EARLY LIFE
CAREER
in a factory when he was 12
successful reporter for a newspaper
full time career as a novelist
EDUCATION
UNIVERSAL EDUCATION
attacked Utilitarianism
education to all
exclude imagination
full development of the individual
NEW SCHOOLS
forced into conformity
in accord with factory system
Dickens attacked the new industrial school system
A LIFE LIKE A NOVEL
Dickens, lived a life like his characters
He lived a life of solitude but his experience (meeting people, places,events) was used in his novels
His father was in jail, so he has to work in factory at 12, in fact he only did three years of school
He wrote a lot of novels, the principals are Oliver Twist, Christmas Carol, Hard Times
THEMES
PLOTS
writes a lot and quickly ( he needs money)
suspence in the end of the chapter
climax
improbables plots and subplots
many characters
CHARACTERS
charicatures
Ebenezer Scrooge, Oliver Twist
exaggerated behaviours
outcasts, reflects authors sympathy towards poor people
MAJOR WORKS
Oliver Twist
social criticism
children's abuse on work
Hard Times
Education of school system
working class during the industrial revolution
SETTING AND AIM
aim
denunce the social evil of his times
make his reader aware of them (readers = middle class women)
ethical and potential of the literature
challenged the popular victorian idea (poor people more immoral and "bad")
setting
cities, mostly in London
Oliver Twist, foggy, dark streets, with criminals
invented city
Coketown, inspired by Preston (
Hard Times
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