18121870 His Life Dickens wrote during the Industrial Revolution so his stories brought out concerns with i njustices in the justice system and capital punishment child labor poor houses ID: 759193
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Charles Dickens
English writer
1812-1870
Slide2His Life
Slide3Dickens wrote during the Industrial Revolution, so his stories brought out concerns with injustices in the justice system (and capital punishment)child laborpoor houses boys’ boarding schoolsthe lack of education forwomenalcoholismthe effects of poverty
Social Critic
Slide4Considered the greatest English novelist of the Victorian eraNever out of printImmensely popular during his timeWrote his books in serials (newspapers). Episodic plots constructed on a cliff-hanger model.
Writing Career
Slide5Oliver TwistDavid CopperfieldA Christmas CarolA Tale of Two CitiesGreat ExpectationsThe Mystery of Edwin Drood
Most Famous Works
Slide61. of Charles Dickens (1812-70), the English novelist, or his works2. resembling or suggestive of conditions described in Dickens' novels, especially a. squalid and poverty-stricken: working conditions were truly Dickensian b. characterized by jollity and conviviality: a Dickensian scene round the Christmas tree3. grotesquely comic, as some of the characters of Dickens
Dickensian [
adj.
]
Slide7“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” Great Expectations
Sentimental
Slide8“On Sundays the little church in the park is mouldy; the oaken pulpit breaks out into a cold sweat; and there is a general smell and taste as of the ancient Dedlocks in their graves.” -Bleak House
Grotesque
Slide9Characters
Rich characters, often with odd names that might reveal something about the characters, such as E
benezer Scrooge (left).
Slide10“A very old man in a flannel coat; clean, cheerful, comfortable and well cared for, but intensely deaf.” Great Expectations
Characters
“The Aged
Parent”
(
or “Aged P” or “the Aged One”):
Slide11Characters
Mr.
Pumblechook
:
“
a large
hardbreathing
middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come
to”
Great Expectations
Slide12Characters
Miss Havisham and Pip
Slide13Characters
Mr.
Murdstone
Slide14“My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.” Great Expectations
Characters