2.2 Dicken’s Contribution,Reputation and Literary Career
After his father was released from prison, Charles soon returned to school and then found a job as an office worker.He quickly rose from the ranks, studied briefly, and became a correspondent for debates in the House of Commons in London magazine.In 1833, he began writing essays on London life and manners under the pseudonym “Gray.”These essays have been published in several different magazines, and positive responses from readers have led two publishers, Chapman and Hall, to ask him to write a series of songs for their comic sports sketches by a well-known comedian named Seymour.So Mr. Came.Pickwick is instantaneous.Suddenly an inspiration flashed at the thought of Mr. Dickens.Pickwick was truly the foundation of all his great victories.Initially, the Pickwick Documents (1836-1837) were not particularly popular; As Dickens thought of Sam Weller with another flash of genius, the flow wave was astonishing.From Mr.Pickwick’s cheerful servant created the appearance Dickens’ name and fame were credible.
While Dickens is one of the masters of prose in his style, his style cannot be envied by a pure idiom or a flow of subtle melody command.His style is often very polite.His best Dickens style is neither polished nor scientific, but he is clear, quick and hardworking, spoiled by style funs in early books, cockneyisms, and heavy circumlocutions.David Copperfield’s style is simple, straightforward and biDickens devoted his great power and talent to writing, and his quantity and often quality were remarkable.Originally from 1837-1843, he wrote works by Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, and A Charismas Carol.There was more to come; Bleak House (1852-1853), Hard Times (1854), Little Dorrit (1855-1856).“A Tale of Two Cities” appeared after his divorce from his wife.In 1864 he brought out the Great Expectations (1860-1861), followed by Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865).Until his slight stroke, he continued his angry professional life.He canceled some of his readings, but started another novel, which was unfinished.
Despite the difficult themes, all of Dickens’s novels feature works of humorous genius that began his literary career.
His first novel, The Pickwick Documents (1836-1837), is still one of the most comic novels in English.Characters like Mr.Bumble in Oliver Twist, sir.Bounderby Hard Times and Mr.Michaeber in David Copperfield adds a joke to other sad worlds.Often Dickens created countless and memorable images in his novels, and was often compared to Shakespeare in his ability to express the essence of personality in just two lines.
Determining how Dickens’s society penetrates his novels is a very interesting and almost lifelong exercise.Perhaps one of the most surprising points made about his novels is that they often overlook the later part of the nineteenth century and look back to the 1850s, when they did not fully feel the effects of the industrial revolution.Dickens ’novels have a strong element of nostalgia for the old world of stage masters.In the same way, some of his novels deliberately organize a confrontation between the old and the new, just as Sir Lester puts Dedlock face to face with the “iron master” or the industrialist at the Black House.Dickens ’attitude can be cloudy.He feels that the iron master must like himself to stay here, but in fact shows genuine affection for the original nobles (mixed with the rage of action).At other times, Dickens heads to a new world, but a novel like Hard Times (1854), based on a new industrial life, shows that he was happy with the London he loved and knew.
Dickens’s novels may seem overly sentimental and picky to today’s reader.This is because he wrote to please his public — a church that demanded respect for the prevailing ethics and conventions of the time.Despite these important limitations, Dickens’s undoubted literary genius emerges in his work.He is still considered by many to be the greatest of all English-language novelists.
Dickens’s stories and sketches, especially the later one, abound in fine dramatic situations of incalculable help to him as a painter of London life.The drama sometimes degenerates into melodrama, which in itself was again a conventional device which readers of today cannot appreciate.But melodramatic element is chiefly noticeable in his early works like, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, while the simple poignancy, the restraint and dignity of his scenes from David Copperfield onwards are admirable.As Compton-Rickett (1990, p.69) rightly observed:
None but a genuine dramatic artist could modulate his style as Dickens can so as to take on the mood of the moment.
To conclude, Dickens’s novels are all animated by a sense of injustice and personal wrong; he is concerned with the problems of crime and poverty, but he does not seem to believe that matters can be improved by legislation or reform movements everything depends on the individual, particularly the wealthy philanthropist (Pickwick or the Cheeryble brothers), if he has a doctrine, it is one of love.
3.Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield:Sound Critical Reconsiderations
3.1 Charles Dickens and Idea of David Copperfield.
Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield is famous for his discovery, which is more or less autobiographical, and there is a portrait of Mr. Dicken’s father.Micawber.Compton-Rickett (1990, p.67) opines:
Mr.Micawber is another type of the attractive mercurial temperament, ready to look on the bright side of things at the smallest provocations.Apart from this, the needy, improvident man would have served the stern moralist’s purpose almost as well as Swiveller.But really we are scarcely conscious of his faults, so delighted are we by his company.
Mr.Micawber is a very famous character, and a common subject in examinations.Another standard question concerns the narrative technique of the novel and in particular, its masterly use of the point of view technique.Uriah Heep and Steerforth are often the focus of questions, the former as a powerful caricature, and the latter as a relative failure in the creation of an ideal vision of general society.Characterization of women and whether Dickens makes David marry the wrong person all along, can also come in for attention.Equally, the Peggoty family is a masterpiece, and shows Dickens’s imagination working at its most vivid, powerful and endearing.
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