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- - - - he became a journalist and became very popular
    - - Dickens's novels were first published as serialised
    - - story of a boy who, after being born in a workhouse, finds his way in a world dominated by hypocrisy and exploitation
        
        poverty and iniquity, hipocrisy, poor law, workhouses, morality and happy ending, misery, ill-treatment of children, education institutions, economic conditions of Engalnd, sistem of justice, women's conditions, social injustice, social reforms, child labour
    - - criticism of Victorian values and morality, power of education as an instrument for promoting emancipation, contrast between the life of the poor and of the rich, attacked utilitarianism, young charachters growing up in a hostile adult world
      - Coketown
- - - - represent the society in a realistic way but never criticised them: Charles Dickens
    - - criticism become stronger and realism more evident and rejected the optimistic view of man and progress, which they contrasted through the representation of the divided self and of the duality ofc human nature, aestheticism, the revaluation of nonsense and the representation of the complex relationship between Britain and its colonies
- - - - he studied animal and plant species
      - principle by which each slight variation is preserved
        
        only individuals that can adapt are the ones that survive and reproduce
    - - human beings and apes evolved from a common ancestor
    - - all living creaturs are subject to tiny variations over generations
- - - - dandy
        
        art for art's sake: no connection between art and morality, no rules, freedom, beauty is a basic factor in art, cult of sensation: indolence and effeminacy, unconventional standards
    - - allegorical and gothic novel, Victorian London in 1880, upper class
      - it was a shock, moral lesson
        
        the portrait is his double, the dark side of his personality, his alter ego, his conscience and his real self
        
        more importance to surfaces and superficial values and materialism than to moral virtues or universal human values, hipocrisy