features,style of charles dickens

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Charles Dickens

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His Literary Creation and Literary Achievements Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realistic writers of the Victorian Age. It is his serious intention to expose and criticize in his works all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and corruptness he saw all around him. In his works, Dickens sets a full map and a large-scale criticism of the 19th-century England, particularly London. A combination of optimism about people and realism about society is obvious in these works. His representative works in the early period include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and so on.

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His later works show a highly conscious modern artist. The settings are more complicated; the stories are better structured. Most novels of this period present a sharper criticism of social evils and morals of the Victorian England, for example, Bleak House, Hard Times, Great Expectations and so on. The early optimism could no more be found. Charles Dickens is a master story-teller. His language could, in a way, be compared with Shakespeare's. His humor and wit seem inexhaustible. Character-portrayal is the most outstanding feature of his works. His characterizations 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. Dickens's works are also characterized by a mixture of humor & pathos.

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IV. Artistic features of Dickens: 1. A Master Storyteller The greatness of Charles Dickens is of a peculiar kind. He is, at the same time, a great entertainer and a great artist. Though by no means an intellectual, Dickens is a genius in storytelling. With the very first sentence, he engages the readers' attention and holds it to the end. The publication method of installment helps him cultivate an ability to sustain interest through all kinds of literary devices, such as suspension, coincidence, deus ex machina, dramatic dialogues and melodrama, etc. By confining to the bourgeois middle-class life he knows so well, he is able to entertain a large audience who find a lot in common in his interest and concern. By limiting the central world of his creation to the world of his own life, he presents us a London with an extraordinary vividness. The atmosphere of London fog, London smoke, the pale dusty London sunshine, London's shabbiness, variety, intimacy and, vastness are all there in his works. This power of realizing the actual setting never fails Dickens.

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2. Characters Dickens is a comprehensive novelist. His character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his creation. His world seems to be fuller and richer than many other novelists'. Among his vast range of various characters, there are both types and individuals. They are impressive not because they are true to life. On the contrary, they are mostly larger than life, seldom to be found in real life. Often they are humorous exaggerations of some well-marked human traitssometimes one's pe

rsonal manner of speech, sometimes his habitual gesture or behavior and sometimes just some physical peculiarity. In many cases, universal experience becomes individualized in types. Dickens is best at child character portrayal. Almost all his child heroes and heroines are innocent, virtuous, persecuted or helpless. They are spotless in their thoughts, intentions and wishes. In the very heart and soul, they are pure, refined and gentle-hearted. Some of the most unforgettable characters like Oliver Twist, Little Nell, Paul Dombey, David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, and Little Pip, have become famous type characters.

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His success with children lies in his writing from a child's point of view. Children are instinctive: they have strong imaginations, vivid sensations; they see life as black and white, and bigger than reality; their enemies seem demons, their friends angels; their joys or sorrows absolute and eternal. They do not look at life with the eye of the wise, the intellectual or the instructed observer; they are not ashamed of sentiment. In fact, they see life very much like Dickens and he certainly does have an extraordinary understanding of them. The first halves of David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among the most profound pictures of childhood in English literature. Here Dickens seems not only living, but life-like, for though the world is more exaggerated, lit by brighter lights, darkened by sharper shadows than those of grown-up's, it is exactly the world as it is seen through the eyes of a child.

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Dickens is also famous for the characterization of horrible and grotesque figures, such as Fagin and Bill Sykes (Oliver Twist), Quilp (The Old Curiosity Shop), Squeers (Nicholas Nickleby), Uriah Heep (David Copperfield), Mr. Tulkinghorn (Bleak House), Wigg (Our Mutual Friend), etc., and the broadly humorous or comical characters like Sam Weller (The Pickwick Papers), Mr. Mieawber (David Copperfield), Mr. Bumble (Oliver Twist), and Mrs. Gamp (Martin Chuzzlewit). With a peculiar power he inherits from Smollett, he is able to portray a character with just a few words or by highlighting or exaggerating some peculiar features of his characters.

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3. Humor and Pathos Dickens's novels are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos. He seems to believe that life is itself a mixture of joy and grief; life is delightful just because it is at once comic and tragic. Dickens is a great humorist. Whether he exaggerates a person's physical traits or ridicules his temperamental defects …… 此处隐藏：5705字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……