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Charles Dickens
1.Dickenss life
Born in Portsmouth in 1812.
Unhappy childhood: he had
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1. Dickenss life
Died in 1870.
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3. Dickenss characters
Dickens shifted the social
frontiers of the novel
Charles Dickens
3. Dickenss characters
He created:
caricatures he exaggerated
and ridiculed peculiar social
characteristics of the middle,
lower and lowest classes;
weak female characters.
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4. Dickenss themes
Family, childhood and poverty
innocent or corrupted by
adults.
Most of these children begin in negative circumstances and
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5. Dickenss aim
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5. Dickenss aim
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6. Dickenss style
Dickenss style very rich and original
The main stylistic features of his novels are:
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6. Dickenss style
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6. Dickenss style
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Jim Carrey as
Scrooge
in the film A
Christmas
Carol, directed
by Roberi
Zemeckis in
2009.
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Dickenss legacy:
1.He was the man who invented
the idea of a white Christmas.
A famous writer stated:
Whether the Christmas visions would or would not convert
Scrooge, they convert us. (G. K. Chesterton, 2007)
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