Charles Dickens biography

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The novel is true to life and it is especially true to childhood. The early pages of the book seem like fragments of a forgotten infancy. The dark house of childhood, the loneliness, the things half-understood, the nurse with her inscrutable moods and her more inscrutable tenderness, the sudden deportations to distant places, the seaside and its childish friendship, all these stir in the reader something out of a previous existence.Above all, Dickens has excellently depicted the child enthroned in that humble circle which only in after year he perceives to have been humble.

Maybe people contemporary with Dickens objected to a child seeking kitchen company or being taught by a woman like Peggotty. But, surely, nothing is more important in the world than to be educated in a sense of human dignity and equality. And a child who has once had to respect a kind and capable woman of the lower class will respect the lower class forever.

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Cuprins

Introduction.......................4

Chapter I. Charles Dickens - His Life and Work....................5
1.1. The Growth of Man and Writer....................5
1.2. Charles Dickens - A Social Critic...............8
1.3. The Effects of Dickens`s childhood experience on his work........10

Chapter II. The Child - Hero........................13
2.1. Dickens`s Deep Sympathy for the Most Innocent of His Characters.....................14
2.2. Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Paul Dombey, Pip -
"Small Adults".................16
2.3. Florence Dombey, Little Dorrit, Agnes Wickfield, Little
Nell - "Little mothers"................24

Chapter III. Children`s Conditions of Existence.....................28
3.1. Life in the English Cities.....................29
3.2. Contemporary Evils: the Workhouse, the Warehouse,the Debtors` Prison........................32
3.3. The Educational System.......................37

Chapter IV. The Influence of the Adults on the Lives of the Children......................40
4.1 The Two Opposite Spheres of Life..............40
4.1.1 The Benevolent Society......................42
4.1.2 The Evil World..............................45
4.2 Dickens`s Art of Portraying Comic and Grotesque Characters........50
4.3 An Unforgettable character - Mr. Wilkins Micawber.................53

Final Remarks....................55

References.......................55

Bibliography.....................62