Paper no.: 6 The Victorian Literature
Course:
M.A (English)
Topic:
Charles Dickens
Semester:
2
Unit:
1
Roll.no:5
Paper
no.: 6
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to: Dr. Dilip Barad,
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S.B.Gardi
About Charles Dickens
Ø He was born on 7th february1812.
Ø He was died at the
age of 58 on 9th June 1870
Ø He was known as a
socialist and he represent reality of society in his novel.
Ø
Charles dickens is sent to Blacking Factory at age of twelve and
he was worked for 12 hours day in atrocious conditions.
ØThis experience leaves him mentally
scared
ØAs a social reformer Charles Dickens
takes a great interest in social reformation.
ØHe refers to Business men as
‘SCHEMER’ and ‘WILLIANS’ and developed hospitality towards political economics.
ØHe becomes a successful novelist.
ØHis experience and secret from
blacking factory gives him Inspiration to write ‘Great Expectation’ and ‘David
Copperfield’.
ØHis writing continually reflects his
social and political views and his distaste for business men.
ØCharles Dickens writes his character
of the lower social class to have more values than aristocratic that in his own
view he has grown to despise.
ØThe presents rise up in revolt
against the cruel inhumane treatment of the poor and they storm the Bastille
Killing the aristocrats which begins the French Revolution.
Some important Work
of Charles Dickens
Ø Dickens's
novels were, among other things, works of social commentary.
He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society.
ØIn a New York
address, he expressed his belief that "Virtue shows quite as well in rags
and patches as she does in purple and fine linen".
Ø Dickens's
second novel, Oliver Twist (1839),
shocked readers with its images of poverty and crime: it destroyed middle class
polemics about criminals, making impossible any pretense to ignorance about
what poverty entailed.
Ø In Dickens’s most
of the work there was he represent ‘domestication of women’.
ØHe present his female character as a
‘’Angel in the house.
ØHe tells about it like;
ØShe was immensely charming.
ØShe was utterly unselfish.
ØShe excelled in the difficult arts of
family life.
ØShe sacrifices herself daily.
ØIf there was chicken, she took the
leg, and if there was a draught she sat in it-in short she was so constituted
that she never had a mind or a wish of her own, but preferred to sympathize
always with the minds and wishes of others.
(Above
all – I need not say it She was pure)-Woolf
· Victimization of women Characters in
the novel.
Ø Example –Oliver’s Mother and Nancy in
his novel Oliver Twist.
Ø John Bailey points out that: Nancy’s
living is the living of England, a nightmare society in which drudgery is
endless and stupefying.
ØIn which the
natural affections are warped and the identity of man appears only in
resolution and violence.
ØIt is a more
disquieting picture than the carefully and methodically symbolized.
ØSocial panoramas of
Bleak House, Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend.
ØThe abuse of new
poor law system.
ØThe evils of the
criminal world in London.
ØThe Victorian idea
of charity, the workhouses was a failed attempt to solve the problem of poverty
and unwanted child.
ØOliver twist is the
manifestations of Victorian conscience.
vHis literary style
Ø Dickens loved the
style of the 18th century picaresque novels which he
found in abundance on his father's shelves. According to Ackroyd, other than
these, perhaps the most important literary influence on him was derived from
the fables of The Arabian Nights
ØDickens' Dream by Robert Williams buss portraying
Dickens at his desk Gads Hill Place surrounded by
many of his characters
ØHis writing style is marked by a
profuse linguistic creativity. Satire, flourishing in his gift for
caricature, is his forte. An early reviewer compared him to Hogarth for his keen
practical sense of the ludicrous side of life, though his acclaimed mastery of
varieties of class idiom may in fact mirror the conventions of contemporary
popular theatre.
Ø Dickens
worked intensively on developing arresting names for his characters that would
reverberate with associations for his readers, and assist the development of
motifs in the storyline, giving what one critic calls an "allegorical
impetus" to the novels' meanings To cite one of numerous examples, the
name Mr. Murdstone in David
Copperfield conjures up twin allusions to "murder" and
stony coldness.
ØHis literary style is also a mixture
of fantasy and realism His satires
of British aristocratic snobbery—he calls one character the "Noble
Refrigerator"—are often popular.
ØComparing orphans to stocks and shares,
people to tug boats, or dinner-party guests to furniture are just some of
Dickens's acclaimed flights of fancy.
ØThe author worked closely with his
illustrators, supplying them with a summary of the work at the outset and thus
ensuring that his characters and settings were exactly how he envisioned them.
ØHe would brief the illustrator on
plans for each month's installment so that work could begin before he wrote
them.
ØMarcus Stone illustrator
of Our Mutual Friend recalled
that the author was always "ready to describe down to the minutest details
the personal characteristics, and ... life-history of the creations of his fancy."[
vPoems by Charles
Dickens’
vSome important
quotations by Charles dickens which represented him as a socialist.
1) There is a
passion for something deeply implanted in the human breast.
(Oliver Twist chapter -10)
2) It was the best of
times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it
was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of
hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing
before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the
other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of
its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil,
in the superlative degree of comparison only.''
(A Tale of Two Cities chapter-1)
3) Three meals of
thin gruel a day, onion twice a week half roll on Saturday.
(Oliver Twist chapter-2)
4) Dignity and even
holiness too sometimes, are more question of coat and waistcoat than some
people imagine.
(Oliver Twist
chapter -37 p-267)
5) ‘’ It is very
remarkable circumstance sir said same Weller in
(Pickwick Papers
ch-22.)
And at last I have conclude my assignment with famous line of
Oliver Twist
‘’ Sir I want some
More’’
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