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CHARLES DICKENS - Coggle Diagram
CHARLES DICKENS
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caricatures: he exagerated and ridiculed peculiar social characteristics of the middle, lower and lowest classes
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"Seven Dials", a notorious slum district its sense of disorientation and confinement (clearly expressed in dickens's novels)
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depicted Victorian society in all its variety, its richness and its squalor
was on the side of the poor, the outcast, the working-class
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was a campaigning novelist and his book highlight all the great Victorian controversies:
- the faults of the legal system (Oliver Twist)
- the horrors of factory employment (David Copperfield, Hard Times)
- scandals in private schools (David Copperfield)
- the miseries of prostitution
- the appalling living conditions in slums (Bleak House)
- corruption in government (Bleak House)
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the main stylistic features of his novels are:
- long list of objects and people
- adjectives used in paris or in group of three and four
- several details, not strictly necessary
- repetitions of the same word/s and/or sentence structure
- the same concept/s is/are expressed more than once, but with different words
- use of antithetical images in order to underline the characters' features
- exaggeration of the characters's faults
- suspense at the end of the episodes or introduction of a sensational event to keep the readers' interest
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