Concetti Chiave
- Charles Dickens is a key novelist of the Victorian Age, highlighting societal injustices with an optimistic outlook for the future.
- His novels often focus on themes of pollution and exploitation, set against the backdrop of industrialized cities.
- Dickens uses an evil character as a scapegoat for societal issues, avoiding direct blame on institutions.
- He portrays upper-class characters positively, suggesting their potential role in solving societal problems.
- His narrative style includes a third-person omniscient narrator, using humor and vivid techniques to influence readers.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is the most representative novelist of the first phase of the Victorian Age (the second phase starts after Darwin's theory; it was characterized by scientific progress that shows the uncertainty of the future, leading to a pessimistic view of life) . He is conscious of the wickness and injustice of his society and choose to portray this aspects in his novels; anyway he still share an optimistic view of life and a hope in the future that characterizes all the first phase of the Age and is reflected in Dickens' plots; indeed his protagounist are children that are always victims of an injust socety but at the end, in spite of their unhappy condition they find happiness.
Dickens chooses pollution and exploitation as the themes dealt with in his novels and sets his plots in big cities, portraying what happens in the subborgs, where the workhouses were built.Dickens novels are often set in cities because his aim was to denounce the problems related to industrialization and pollution. He was great in the description of industrial settings and towns, achieving his goal of transmitting the atmosphere that could be found in the dreadful areas where criminals and the lower social classes lived. Dickens never accuse openly the institution for the degradation of society but he attributes the responsability to an evil man, who is the villain of the novel and is considered a scapegoat.
Dickens novel are educational novels indeed the autor's aim is to denounce in order to involve the institution and stimulate the attenction of the ruling classes because they are the ones that can solve the issues of the time, even if they are not responsable for it. That's why Dickens also focuses on the description of characters belonging to the upper classes, who are portrayed in a posit
His narrative style often employs the third person narrator tecnique; this choice is meant to influence the reader's judjement: indeed the narrator (who is the speaking voice) is omniscent and he identifies with the novelist, so the readers are gradually led to agree with the author's point of view because of the presence of comments and exclamations of the narrator that actually belong to Dickens.
Dickens was able to create unforgettable characters thanks to the vivid tecnique employed: indeed he uses repetitions, long series of adjectives, metaphors, similies
Domande da interrogazione
- Quali sono i temi principali affrontati nei romanzi di Charles Dickens?
- Come Dickens rappresenta le classi sociali nei suoi romanzi?
- Qual è lo stile narrativo utilizzato da Dickens nei suoi romanzi?
- In che modo Dickens riesce a creare personaggi indimenticabili?
Dickens affronta temi come l'inquinamento e lo sfruttamento, ambientando le sue trame nelle grandi città per denunciare i problemi legati all'industrializzazione.
Dickens descrive i personaggi delle classi superiori in modo positivo, spesso come salvatori, mostrando fiducia nella loro capacità di risolvere i problemi della nazione.
Dickens utilizza spesso la tecnica del narratore in terza persona, che è onnisciente e si identifica con l'autore, influenzando il giudizio del lettore attraverso commenti ed esclamazioni.
Dickens utilizza tecniche vivide come ripetizioni, lunghe serie di aggettivi, metafore e similitudini, insieme all'umorismo, per rendere i suoi personaggi memorabili e i punti forti dei suoi romanzi più impressionanti.
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