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Charles Dickens
the life
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Dickenson started a full-time career as a novelist, he also continued his journalistic and editorial activities
1832 became a very successful shorthand reporter of parliamentary debates (House of Commons) and became a reporter for a newpaper.
Dickens died in Kent in 1870, adored by his public
was born in Portsmouthm in 1812, he had unhappy childhood, he was put to work in a factory
The Works
in 1845 he pubblished the Christmas Carol, the first successful Christmas book
the protagonist of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Little Dorrit became the symbols of an exploited childhood confronted with the bitter realities of slums and factories
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Bleak House, Hard Times and Great Expectations, which deals with the conditions of the poor class in general.
Characters
his aim was to arouse the reader's interest by exaggerating the habits and language of the characters. criticizing the attitudes of the poors without sarcasm
in his stories Dickens uses children as the main characters, who become the moral teachers of adults, instead of being taught
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the writer's skill is to make parents love their children, and to make people understand how people should behave with each other
Hard Times 1854
setting: coketown is a mill town in Victorian age, full with factories and pollution, symbol of industrialisation. (town of black bricks because of the smoke, whit many small streets and )
structure: the novel is divided in 3 books. 1- "sowing" as the seeds planted by Gradgrind education. 2- "reaping" revials the kids unhappy and criminal lives. 3- "garnering" linked to the instability of this edication
the plot: in coketown, Mr Gradgrind is a teacher who believes only in logic and facts and repress feelings and immagination and raises his children according to thi philosophy; growing older and unhappy, he understands the damage he caused his children
as a result of Utilitarianism, for the protagonist everything can be measured by reason and facts, turning children in to machine with no feelings; Dickens wanted to show the dangers of the "object lesson"
Style and reputation
He did this with the careful choice of adjectives, repetitions of words and structures, juxtapositions of images and ideas, hyperbolic and ironic observations.
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Dickens employed the most effective language and produced the most vivid and powerful descriptions of life and characters ever attempted by any novelist.
A didactic aim
Dickens's task was to raise awareness among the ruling classes of social problems without offending his middle-class readers
this attitude proved effective, in fact the more educated and richer classes acquired knowledge of their poorer neighbors.
Oliver Twist 1838
is about an orphan, is a poor boy who lives in a workhouse. in the workhouse the boys are starving and when oliver asks for more food he ends up with being sold. he works as an apprentice but he’s treated so badly that he runs away. he enters a gang of pickpockets in London. he finds his fortune because on his first attempt of theft he finds Mr Brownlow (the victim) who is a rich and good man. the man decides to take him home. the boss of the gang tries to force Oliver to steal from Mr Brownlow. Oliver is discoverd and he gets shot. Mr Brownlow discorvesthat Oliver’s former master had paid the gang to ruin Oliver and so he forgives Oliver and adopt him. in the end the master and the gang are arrested, Oliver is discovered to have noble origins