1、Charles Dickens,l,Famiy Background,Poor,Family in debt,prison for debt,blacking Factory (鞋油作坊).,happiesttime,His Life,His Literary Creation &Literary Achievements,Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical relistic writers of the Victorian Age. A combination of optimism about people and realism
2、 about society is obvious in his works.,His Literary Creation & Literary Achievements,Charles Dickens is a master story-teller. His language could, in a way, be compared with Shakespeares. His humor & wit seem inexhaustible. Character-portrayal is the most outstanding feature of his works.His charac
3、terizations of child (Oliver Twist, etc.), some grotesque people (Fagin, etc.) and some comical people (Mr. Micawber, etc.) are superb. Dickens also employs exaggeration in his works.,His Literary Creation & Literary Achievements,An highly conscious modern artist. The settings are more complicated;
4、the stories are better structured. Most novels of this period present a sharper criticism of social evils & morals of the Victorian England, for example, Bleak House, Hard Times, Great Expectations & so on. The early optimism could no more be found.,A man of action and business in the world, a stude
5、nt and writer of books The best shorthand reporter on the London press The best amateur actor on the stage A successful periodical editor Radical in politics and ideology Concerned about social problems Faithful to the people, pessimistic to capitalist society, the expression of the conscience of hi
6、s age,Characteristics of Dickens Life,英国纸币,我就是大名鼎鼎狄更斯！,If his writing career is an article ,how many paragraphs do you divide ?,Divide his life into three parts,18361841, first period, Period of youthful optimist: fun, high spirit, naive optimismThe Old Curiosity Shop Oliver Twist Sketches by Boz,Th
7、e Period of His Life,1842-1850, The second period- Period of excitement, irritation and frustration: exposing the corrupting influence of wealth and power, optimism turned into dissatisfaction and irritationAmerican Notes DObey and Son David Copperfield,The Period of His Life,The third period, a Per
8、iod of steadily intensifying pessimism, showing underlying tone of bitterness, loss of hope for English bourgeois societyBleak House Hard Time A Tale of Two City Great Expectations,Oliver Twist,One of the best works of DickensA powerful exposure of bou rgeois societyIts publication brought about som
9、e bettering of conditions in the English workhouses during the authors day,Plot of Oliver Twist,Olivers birth: of unknown parentage Maltreated by Bumble, the parish beadle In London, he falls into the hands of a gang of thieves Rescued by Mr. Brownlow Kidnapped by the thieves Wounded in a burgling e
10、xpedition, rescued by Mrs. Maylie and Rose Adopted by Mr. Brownlow. A happy ending.,The novel exposes the inhumanity of city life under capitalism. It shows the extreme brutality and corruption of the oppressors and their agents and the helpless sufferings of the poor and oppressed. The happy ending comes as a result of Dickenss optimistic belief in the inevitable triumph of good over evil.,Inflection of the novel,Good representativeBad representatives The unvanished conscience,Oliver Nancy Bedwin Brownlow,Fagin Bumble,Nancy,Thank you for listening,
