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CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) - Coggle Diagram
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870)
EARLY LIFE
He lived a similar life to his own rags-to-riches stories:
He had 7 sibilings
He went to school only for 3 years
When he was 12 his father went to
prison because of unpaid debts
Most of Dickens family stayed
with his father in prison
A LIFE LIKE A NOVEL
rags-to-riches story
7 sibilings, went to school for 3 years
forced to work 10-hr days
evolved as a journalist
wrote lots of novels
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
Hard Times
father in prison for unpaid debts
he suffered loneliness and hardship
these experiences were useful as materials for his stories
CAREER
started as a journalist and became parliamentary reporter (1833)
in the same year he wrote stories for the newspaper "The Morning Chronicle"
his nickname was "Boz" and he published a series of sketches
His first novel was "Pickwick Papers"
(1836)
CHARACTERS
caricatures of vices or virtues
SETTING
Cities
Coketown -fictional city inspired by Preston (industrial city in the north of England
London
Conditions
poor and dirty streets
PLOT
Orphans
Cruelty of the workhouses
Poverty
Factories
Social injustices
Social criticism
serial publications (instalments)
plots and subplots
suspense in the end of every chapter
many characters
THEMES AND AIM
EDUCATION
He went to school for just 3 years
forced to work 10 hours per day in a factory (when he was 12)
He began to work as a journalist
then he began to write lots of novels
MAJOR WORKS
Pickwick Papers (1836-37)
instalments
Oliver Twist (1837-39)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
David Copperfield (1849-50)
Bleak House (1852-53)
Hard Times (1854)
Great Expectation (1860)