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Charles Dickens
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Samantha PinterProfessor Owens
English 110215 July 2010
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Dickens’ Choice of Characters
Within Dickens writings heroism isdrawn from among the
"middle class", often youngchildren and the poor, thefew of wealth and rank are
pictured harsh,unsympathetic, with much
sarcasm.
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Child Laborer 1800’sDickens himself worked in a factory as a young child, using this experiences in many of his child characters.
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Well Known Child
CharactersDavid Copperfield Tiny Tim Oliver Twist
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Oliver TwistOliver Twist
•Young boy who grows up at the workhouse.
•Adopted by a gang of criminals to become a pick pocket thief.
•Oliver runs away because he does not wish to seal.
•Dickens portrays Oliver in an innocent light who is constantly being disappointed by the world.
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Tiny TimThe Christmas Carol •Son of Bob Chatchit
•Father works for very little as a clerk for a rich banker.
•Crippled helpless child, his family has little money and can’t pay for medication.
•Tiny Tim inspires the rich banker Scrooge in turning his life around.
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David CopperfieldDavid Copperfield
•Narrator of the novel, talks about his life growing up.•A naive but loving child who looses his mother.•Is abused as a child•Sent away for defending himself while being beaten.
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…The Poor…• Dickens creates characters who are poor in a heroic
roles.
• The blacksmith• The baker• Fishermen• Corn Merchant
• These often are more rich in happiness then the wealthy.
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Dickens Well Known Villains
…Wealth &Authority
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AristocratsDickens depicted wealthy / authority figures as• heartless • selfish • Cruel• Villains
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Full Deck of Wealth!
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Ebenezer Scrooge
The Christmas Carol
•Rich banker who has no remorse for those less fortunate.
•Scrooge regarding the poor that would rather die then work in the workhouses ,
“If they'd rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”
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Mr. BumbleOliver Twist
• Selfish Churchman at workhouse where Oliver works.
• Tells the children…“Cry your hardest now, it opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes and softens down the temper. So cry away. ”
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Miss. Havisham
Great Expectations
•Wealthy spinster
•Adopts a young girl in order to mold her to break men’s heart.Pip eventually is the victim of her intent.
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Mrs. MannOliver Twist
•Manager of Oliver's workhouse.
•Beats the children and starves them.
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FaginOliver Twist
• Adopts children to become his thief's.• Oliver runs away.• Fagin later fills
one of Olvers only friends Nancy.
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Dickens felt a true attachment to his characters.His writings always involved the average man which many can relate to.
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"Dickens wrote about greed and debts -- over and over," Timberg
says. "He himself was deeply scarred by his father's
fecklessness. And then he became a very rich man. And
boy, are we in the middle of that now. He wrote about rags to riches, but also about rags to
riches to rags."
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Works Cited• Walsh, John. “Dickens of a Time.” The Independent 22, Dec. 2008: 2. Print• Yardley, Jonathan. “The Little People.” Washington Post 31, Jan. 2006:
C01 Print.• Timberg, Scott. "Boom and Gloom, Again; Dickens' stories of greed and
poverty speak to the 21st century's economic woes." Los Angeles Times 11, Apr. 2009: D.1 Print
• Powers, Kathrine A. "Easy Listening for Hard Times." The Washington
Post 17, Aug. 2008: T11 Print • Broadberry, Stephen. “A Unified Approach to the International
Comparison of Living Standards.” Journal of Economic History 70.2 (2010): 400-427. Print