Презентация, доклад по англ. литературе на тему Charles Dickens

movement,known as a Chartist, was at its height.

in many manufacturing towns and in London as well. The actions of the Chartists had considerable effect on Dickens. Though he did not believe in revolutionary action, he was on the side of the people with all his heart. He wanted what the people wanted.

Chartist movement

population.

He looked into the darkest corners of the large cities and there found the victims of capitalism. Thus, Dickens's immortal works became an accusation of the bourgeois system as a whole.

of Chapman and Hall were planning to bring out a series of humorous pictures on sport events. Dickens was asked to write short comic episodes to accompany the pictures about a certain Mr. Pickwick whose efforts in sport always ended in failure. But the artist died suddenly, leaving Dickens to develop the series as he would..
Dickens introduced new episodes and the characters grew in depth. When all the series were put together, they formed a novel. Later they were printed in one volume under the title The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, or Pickwick papers for short.

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himself to literary work.

His next novel was Oliver Twist. It appeared first in series in a new monthly magazine of which Dickens himself was editor. Readers expected to see a new humorous story, and they were much surprised to find a nightmare novel instead.

It did not allow homeless people to live in the streets; they were put into workhouses where they were only a little bit better off than in prison. Oliver Twist was not simply a novel but a social tract as well.

he came across some where life was worse than anything he had been through in childhood. In Nicholas Nickleby Dickens exposed the private boarding-schools for unwanted children.

Boz (1833-1836)
The Posthumous Papers of
the Pickwick Club (1837)
Oliver Twist (1838)
Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
Barnaby Rudge (1840)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)

THE FOUR PERIODS IN DICKENS' CREATIVE WORK

to the second period in the writer's creative work.
American Notes (1842)
Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
The Christmas Books (1843—1848)
Dombey and Son (1846—1848)

The II period

the strongest for the social criticism expressed in them. During this period he wrote:
David Copperfield (1850)
Bleak House (1853)
Hard Times (1854)
Little Dorr it (1857)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

The III period

the years when the labour movement was going down.
He wrote only two novels:
Great Expectations (1861)
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

The IV period

ENGLISH LITERATURE

reader was learnt in suffering, even the most comical situations.
The secret of Dickens's style lies in the combination of the strictest realism of detail with fantasy.

DICKENS'S ORIGINAL STYLE

or a feeling of pity, for the virtuous characters when circumstances have turned against them; contempt for the villains, whom Dickens describes in a satirical manner which helps to tear off their mask of respectability; and a warm liking for the whimsical but generous persons.

alarm: no writer of the time knew better than Dickens what child labour was. He also knew how terribly a child could change in an unwholesone environment; he was too familiar with the common misery, and knew how good can turn into bad. Yet, in his works, his child heroes and heroines remain pure till the end. They pass through dirty crowded streets and keep themselves unspotted.

the world, Dickens's truthful pictures of English life stressed again and again that all wealth was in the hands of a small group of capitalists and that the masses lived at the mercy of the rich. However it never occurred to the writer that the capitalist system was the cause of all poverty. Dickens wished to solve insoluble problems through the triumph of virtue; so the gentle and ever-friendly Dickens invented a happy ending to nearly all his stories. Dickens never outgrew his bourgeois illusion that the exploiters could be converted to principles that were contradictory to the nature of private property

century English life.

His method of writing inspired many others to write realistically, and great works of critical realism appeared after him.

Dickens portrayed people of all the types seen in the streets of great cities in his time.

visited Leo Tolstoy. He reported that the great writer had said about Dickens: "All his characters are my personal friends. I am constantly comparing them with living persons, and living persons with them. And what a spirit there is in everything he wrote!"