Dicken Essay- How well does Dickens create the characters of his narrators? Refer to three or four stories in your answer.
Dicken Essay- "How well does Dickens create the characters of his narrators? Refer to three or four stories in your answer." The SchoolBoy's story is told by a schoolboy telling part of a life of a person called Old Cheeseman. Old Cheeseman used to be a student, teacher and then left. The narrator told part of his life, who is a schoolboy and stay with Old Cheeseman during the holiday. The narrator was supposed to stay in school for the holiday but Old Cheeseman met him and invited him to stay with him because he knew it is mental torture to reside at school during holiday. The story fits the narrator since the story is about school and it is not well constructed and the narrator attended the same school as Old Cheeseman. As an example of the story not well constructed, the narrator was telling about Old Cheeseman but suddenly change the topic to criticism on food. This can be evidence for he is not a good storyteller since he is young. At the start of story, the narrator used some schoolboy slang. "What a screw the Reverend is, or what a griffin SHE is, or how they do stick it into parents." (Line 3, The Schoolboy's story) This clearly shows the start of story fits the narrator because the narrator was a student. Additionally, it is usual for a student to use schoolboy's slangs. The narrator was apprehensive that his story was not as good as his relatives' stories.
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What is Dickens Message in his Novel 'A Christmas Carol' and How does he present it? Born in 1812 the second child of a Navy Pay officer, life was never going to be easy for Charles Dickens. In his infant years Dickens had his fair share of bad luck. He knew how it felt to be cold, miserable, poor and altogether unhappy. Soon Dickens' father was in debt and was sent to Marshalsea Prison, London. This unfortunate turn meant a 12 year old Dickens had to go and work in a shoe-blacking factory. This embarrassed him for all his life and he felt it was humiliation. Dickens was determined not to be the same as his father and managed to get work as a solicitor's clerk, and then moved onto a form of journalism for the political debates. Dickens successfully managed to convey what he felt about Victorian England in his books; often they featured under privileged children ('Oliver Twist'), and other aspects of being poor and needy. Dickens tried hard to let people know about the people working in the workhouses and the terrible conditions they worked in ('David Copperfield'). He tried to make the more noble class respect the less fortunate and be kinder to the homeless and needy. In his lifetime Dickens influenced the English and worldwide public with his moving stories and made a lot of money for his family in the process. Dickens is well remembered for books like 'A Christmas
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How do you account for the continuing popularity of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens? We can see that 'A Christmas Carol' must be the most popular Christmas story of all time because books, films, plays and television programs have been made about it. It was written by Charles Dickens in the 19th century when two thirds of children were completely unschooled and almost half of all London funerals were for children under ten. Dickens was very interested in education and the poor at the time. He pitied the poor and also feared their potential for social destructiveness, as 'ignorance' and 'want' affected them tremendously. Dickens cleverly uses starving children as a device to show immediate symbolism of the impoverished people of the time. Being a very positive man, Charles Dickens shows that by giving education we can prevent violence, poverty and the ills associated with this. He shows this by explaining to Scrooge that he can make a change to the world, by helping the poor and exerting joy to the people around him, but unless he changes his present actions there will be desolation, "Doom, unless the writing be erased". By showing the reader this, we learn a very important lesson and we feel wiser after reading the book. Because it ends with great happiness this has a satisfying sensation on the reader. This message is very cleverly presented because it will
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL Oliver smith Show how Dickens uses the character of Scrooge to influence his readers' attitudes to Victorian England. Charles Dickens was a successful novelist who was born at around 1812, he was a social campaigner. He was a great storyteller who told tremendous stories. He was concerned about poor, people living of the streets that were living of literarily nothing and whose day jobs were to go round pick pocketing. He wanted to make people see what was happening and the best way to do that was to say it with a story. With this story he didn't just want them to see what was happening he wanted to grab their attention and make them help, help by donating to the charities that were already trying to help but struggling as not enough was being given. He wrote the message in 'A Christmas Carol', which had massive sales, 6000 in two weeks, which in those days was a huge amount Dickens creates a powerful character. A man, a man of misery, but also a miser. The saying, don't judge a book by its cover does not apply here as he is cold throughout. He has no mercy for anybody at all, He creates a character through description as well as imagination. " Solitary as an Oyster" is used. This is a good phrase because he never lets anyone else share his feelings. He tries and keeps away from the world as much as possible. The description of him shows how evil and
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How does Charles Dickens Explore the character of man in his time though the story of Scrooge? What was the lessons dickens was trying to teach the reader. In the 1800s the government had prosecuted six labourers who had formed a lodge at Tolpuddle, Dorset, they were charged with sedition and transported. The working classes were annoyed with this and the1834`s Poor Law which created terrible conditions in the Workhouses which were being built nationwide . Dickens had established into novel writer to expose the evils of the English society following the Industrial Revolution. The Christmas tree was not used in Britain until the middle of the 19th century. Albert brought with him to the marriage his love of the Christmas tree, which had not been a novelty in England at that time. The decoration and 'lighting up' of the Christmas tree was a central feature of Princess Victoria's childhood Christmases. The tree that Price Albert provided his family at Windsor Castle was decorated with hand blown glass ornaments from Germany, and with candles and a variety of sweets, fruits and ginger bread. This was to become the famous charismas tree decorations. In 1847, the generous Prince Albert presented large numbers of trees to schools and Army barracks at Christmas. He would decorate the trees himself with sweets, wax dolls, strings of almonds and raisins, and candles, which were
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Alan Slinn 10 I Comment on Scrooge's transformation in the Christmas Carrol. Look at the visit of each ghost and comment on the tone and style of each of the writings "If I could work my will...Every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas should be boiled with his own pudding." This is a quote from Scrooge before the ghosts visit him. It shows that Scrooge doesn't like Christmas and doesn't like other people enjoying themselves at Christmas. Scrooge wasn't just miserable and bad tempered at Christmas, he was like that all year round. He was a cold heartless man "No warmth could warm...No wind that blew was bitter than he." Scrooge hated the idea that on Christmas day his workers were allowed the day off and Scrooge still had to pay their wages. "A poor excuse for picking a mans pocket every twenty-filth of December." Scrooge dislikes people who try and raise money to help the poor, when the charity workers tell Scrooge some poor people would rather die than work in a work house Scrooge replies. "If they would rather die...They had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." This quote shows that Scrooge doesn't care about other people apart from himself. He doesn't care that other people are worse off than he is and he doesn't care if they die. Near the beginning of the book Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his old partner Marley. The start of strange
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Sam Shipley, 10k5 Social and historical essay 17/01/05 There was a great deal of industrial development and change throughout the nineteenth century. It was a very wealthy era with many rich people and England was a prosperous country. For the poor people in England, the nineteenth century was a terrible time. If you were redundant you would probably starve to death. The novel "A Christmas carol" by Charles Dickens shows what life was truly like for the normal, poor people. In this essay I'm going to find out if Dickens' novel, "A Christmas carol" supports the view of former Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, that Britain was "Two nations... The rich and the poor." Work during the Victorian era was a tough and torrid affair. Long hours were commonplace for most Victorian people, and not a lot was paid for their services. In the story "A Christmas carol", the Cratchits are made to work on Christmas Eve and a day. 'Whatever has got your precious father then? And your brother, Tiny Tim! And Martha warn't as late last Christmas Day by half-an -hour.' This quote epitomizes what working conditions were like for Victorians. People were still expected to work throughout Christmas day even though it was supposed to be a time of happiness. Scrooge is a prime example of a hard taskmaster who, although he is rich, continues to work his poor staff on a day like Christmas. Many poor