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DICKENS - Coggle Diagram
DICKENS
STYLE
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inventive plots and many parallel stories with improbable coincidences, surprises and climax
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LIFE
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Unhappy childhood: he had to work in a factory at the age of 12 (his father went to prison for debts)
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1833-36: Sketches by ‘Boz’, articles about London people and scenes, were published in instalments
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THEMES
Childhood and Education
Children often suffer neglect, abuse, or exploitation, reflecting Dickens’ own childhood.
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Social criticism
the Industrial Revolution, the exploitation of children, Victorian theories of education, the failures of the justice system, Utilitarianism, Victorian hypocrisy
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CHARACTERS
He depicted the entirety of the Victorian society (upper classes, working classes, the poor or criminals)
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Caricatures
he exaggerated and ridiculed peculiar characteristics (speech, physical appearance or gesture) of his characters, especially middle class
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SETTING
Urban settings
London
foggy, dangerous, poorly lit, dirty
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Different social levels
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Criminal world (prostitutes, pickpockets)
Victorian middle class (lawyers, industrialists, rich tradesmen)
AIM
DIDACTIC AIM
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His aim was not to encourage the poor to rebel but to
make the ruling classes aware of social problems
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How?
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Clear moral contrasts (innocent vs corrupt, generous vs selfish)
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