Charles Dickens 181270

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Charles Dickens (1812-70)

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His art

• As a writer, his strength lies in his genius for
  depicting characters and describing situations,
  in his use of language.

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His art

• 1.vivid characters and unforgettable situations
  
• 2. an extraordinary range of language
  lyricism, poetry , slang and dialects , from
  comic invention to great eloquence
• 3. humanity and a feeling for the poetry of life .

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His early works

• His early works
• youthful optimism (1836-41)
• cheats never thrive, virtue will triumph in the
  long run.
• eg. Pickwick Papers (1836-7)
• an effortless expression of comic view of life,
• a naïve youthful exuberance (vitality),
• a joy of living and a lightness of heart

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His later works

• Oliver Twist(1838)
• pathos ( a feeling of pity and sorrow??,??,??)
  is beginning to intrude on
• humor the cruelty and meanness of some
  officials and the terrible condition of the
  workhouse are exposed.

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His later works

• In his later years, the authors vision of life
  became more embittered.
• Bleak House (1853) is an attack on the laws
  delay.
• Hard Times (1854) criticizes the whole ethic of
  capitalism as represented by Manchester school,
  laissez-faire (the principle of allowing peoples
  activities, economics and ethics.
• A Tale of Two Cities(1859) takes French
  Revolution as its subject.

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His strength

• He exposed the work house, the debtors
• prison, the private school, the factory system,
  the court of law. He attacked the hypocritical,
  the conventionally
• pious and their philanthropy.

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His weaknesses

• 1.bourgeois morality
• 2.sentimentalism
• In my opinion, both of his strength and weakness
  lie in his feelings he had sympathy for the
  poor, embraced life with his true heart he knew
  the peoples feelings too, laughed and wept with
  them. But excessive indulgence in feelings mars
  his vision.

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Great Expectations

• Social significance
• 1.humanitarianism
• 2. criticism of morality of bourgeois society
• 3.criticism of social evils
• 4.criticism of the exploitation of imperialism

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Great Expectations

• Artistic features
• 1.genrebildungsroman(????)
• 2.exploration of characters psychology
• 3.involved plot
• 4.description of outer weather in accordance with
  the characterss inner climate.