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Charles Dikens and Oliver Twist
CONTENT
Introduction………………………………………………………………………3
CHARLES DICKENS AND OLIVER TWIST
1. The place of Dickens' creativity in the development of English and world realistic literature………………………………………………………………………….6
2. Features of the realistic method in the early novels of Dickens ("The Adventures of Oliver Twist")……………………………………………….………………..9
3. Ideological and artistic originality of Dickens' novels of the late period of creativity ("Great Expectations")………………………………………….……17
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………..…..30
Glossary…………………………………………………………………………
References………………………………………………………………...…….32
Introduction
Dickens belongs to those great writers whose world fame was established immediately after the appearance of their first works. Not only in England, but also in Germany, France, Russia, very soon after the publication of the first books of Boz (the pseudonym of the young Dickens), they started talking about the author of the Pickwick Club, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby .
Especially in Russia, the works of Dickens were worthily appreciated very early and from the beginning of the 40s they were systematically and repeatedly published both on the pages of literary magazines and in separate editions. This circumstance was noted by F. M. Dostoevsky, who wrote: "... we understand Dickens in Russian, I'm sure, almost the same as the English, even, perhaps, with all shades ...".
Dwelling on the reasons for such a pronounced interest in Dickens, both on the part of Russian readers and Russian critics, MP Alekseev rightly sees the reason for Dickens' special popularity in Russia, primarily in the democratic and humanistic nature of his work.
With all the variety of opinions about Dickens that have come down to us by great Russian writers and critics, such as Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, Ostrovsky, Goncharov, Korolenko, Gorky, the thought of Dickens's democracy and humanism, his great love for people, is leading in them.1
So, Chernyshevsky sees in Dickens "a defender of the lower classes against the upper ones", "a punisher of lies and hypocrisy". Belinsky emphasizes that Dickens' novels are "deeply imbued with the sincere sympathies of our time." Goncharov, calling Dickens "the general teacher of novelists", writes: "Not just an observant mind, but fantasy, humor, poetry, love, with which he, in his words," carried the whole ocean "in himself, helped him write all of England alive , immortal types and scenes". Gorky admired Dickens as a man who "amazingly comprehended the most difficult art of loving people."
At the same time, along with the very essence, with the main pathos of Dickens's work, his “accurate and subtle observation”, “skill in humor”, “relief and accuracy of images” (Chernyshevsky) are emphasized.2
In the story of V. G. Korolenko "My first acquaintance with Dickens" there is a special penetrating and life-giving atmosphere of Dickensian works, Dickens's greatest ability to create images of heroes that convince the reader, how to involve him in all the vicissitudes of their life, to make him sympathize with their suffering and rejoice in their joys shown figuratively, concretely and convincingly.
Today, Dickens continues to be one of the favorite writers of young people and adults. His books diverge in mass editions and are translated into all languages of the peoples inhabiting our country. In 1957-1964, the complete works of Dickens in thirty volumes were published in Russian in a circulation of six hundred thousand copies.
Literary critics also remain interested in the writer's work. In addition, the changed socio-political and social views make us see the literary heritage of Dickens in a new way, which in Soviet literary criticism was considered only from the standpoint of socialist realism.
The purpose of this work is to analyze the evolution of the realistic method in the work of Dickens on the example of the novels The Adventures of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations.
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