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CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) - Coggle Diagram
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870)
LIFE
He studied only for a few years
father went to prison (unpaid debts)
Dickens forced to work in a factory when he was 12
writing career began as a journalist in 1833
THEMES
living and workings conditions of the poor and oppressed
exploitation of children
cruelty of the workhouse
the evils of the Industrial Revolution
education
Dickens criticised school system based on Utilitarianism (excluding imagination, creativity)
students seen as numbers
discouraged to express their personalities through harsh discipline
parallell education system and students and factories and workers
STYLE
Dickens novels are characteried by:
CHARACTERS
Caricatures representing a certain personal trait (vice or virtue)
Mr Gradgrind
Scrooge
PLOT
novels published as serial publications in magazines (cf modern tv-series)
need to maintain interest from one publication to the other
suspense in the end of every chapter
many characters
improbable coincidents in plots and subplots
AIM
Criticise social evils of the time
make his readers aware of them (mostly middle and upper middle class women)
challenged and questioned the idea that some people (poor people) were more immoral