文档介绍：The greatest
Representative
of English critical
realism
Charles Dickens
●Life Experience
●Major Works
●Distinct Features of His Novels
His Life Experience
●Dickens was born on February 7,1812, in Portsmouth and spent most of his childhood in London and Kent, both of which appear frequently in his novels.
●His father, a poor clerk in the Navy Pay office, was put into prison for debt when young Charles was only 12 years old. He had to give up schooling to work in a underground cellar. ●His bitter experience was reflected in many of Dicken’s novels.
●In 1827,Charles entered in a laywer's office, and two year’s later, he e a Parliamentary reporter for newspapers.
From1833,Dickens began to write occasional sketches of London life, which were later collected and published under the title Sketches by Boz.
The First Period
●In 1836-1841,period of youthful optimist; fun, high spirit, naïve optimism.
●At this stage, Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedied if only men treated each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding. ●Dickens thought that the whole social question would be solved if only every employer reformed himself according to the model set by the benevolent gentlemen in his novels. This native optimism is characteristic of the pretty-bourgeois humanitarians of the time.
Major Works
●Sketches by Boz (The first book)
●The Pickwick Papers
●Oliver Twist
●Nichois Nickleby
●The Old Curiosity Shop
●Barnaby Rudge
Plot of Oliver Twist
Oliver’s birth :of unknown parentage
Maltreated by Bumble ,the parish people
In London ,he falls into the hands of a gang thieves.
Rescued by Mr. Brownlow
Kidnapped by the thieves
Wounded in a burgling expedition,rescued by Mrs. Maylie and Rose.
Adopted by Mr. Brownlow。A happy ending。
Characteristics of the novel
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 h