Charles Dickens: appunto in inglese

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Life and works, focus on the text: Hard Times, Oliver Twist: appunto attuale area inglesedi Charles Dickens
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Dickens was born attuale Portsmouth, on the south coast of England Charles DICKENS (1812-70) Life and works Dickens was born usato Portsmouth. He had an unhappy childhood, since his father went prendi prison for debt and he had tieni work up to date a factory at the age of twelve. These days of sufferings were tieni inspire much of the content of his novel. When he realized that he had a talent for writing, he taught himself cortometraggio and became a newspaper redattore. His autobiographical novels are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Little Dorrit; their protagonist all became the symbols of an exploited childhood confronted with the grim and dolore realities of slums and factories. Other work includes Bleak House, Hard times and Great Expectations, dealing with social issues, such as the conditions of the poor and the working class attuale general. These entire novels gave him wealth and sogno. He also had a busy life as a magazine editor. He spent his last years travelling testimonianza giving readings of his own work. Attuale the novels “David Copperfield” and “Oliver Twist”, Dickens attacks one or more social evils: debtor’s prisons, workhouses, repressive education, capital punishment and conformism masked by religion and justice. Usato all these novels, the greatest victims are the children either individually or usato groups, often ill-treated, exploited usato the hardest jobs (mining, textile industry), starved or beaten ecco death. Another important topic is his criticism of the campo role of money up to date the Victorian materialistic society. Focus on the text: Hard Times Hard Times is the only novel not pila up to date London, attuale fact it is completo attuale an imaginary industrial town. One of the main characters is Mr Gradgrind, the owner of a typical Victorian school. He has two children, Tom and Louisa, and he brings them up teaching them the principles which are taught attuale his school. He marries his daughter ecco a ruthless manufacturer, but she is nearly seduced by a politician, James. Tom has become unscrupulous and calculating. Sissy, was father works usato a circus, is found ineducable by Mr Gradrind. Later she became one of his depandants, and she finds the force toh help his daughter Louisa because she faces James and compels him ehi leave the town. Tom takes some money from the bank where he works, he decides prendi confess his crime toh his father, who makes him go abroad. Gradrind has ecco admit that he is a failure both as father and as a teacher. Features Limitation of Dickens: Lack of organic unity (that’s natural because his works were published up to date famiglia forms); Lack of real psychological insight; Excessive trauma and sentimentalism; Exaggerated comic scenes, which become grotesque. A didactic aim The novelist’s ability lay both attuale making his readers love his children, and putting them forward as models of the way people ought prendi behave ehi one another. This didactic stance was very effective, since the result was that the more educated, the wealthier classes throughout England acquired a knowledg


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