Charles
Dickens 1812-1870
Charles
Dickens is the most popular novelist of the Victorian era, he has written most of
his works as a series in magazines, and he also worked on the post of manager
in editor’s office. He was very famous because of his narrative style, which
always reflects the real facts of society. Dickens is among those writers who
have faced the harshness of society, the evil side of progress and modernism.
Narrative
Style of Dickens:
The narration of Dickens is most of the times
in first person narration. In a very interesting
way he projects the characters in such situations. By reading his most of the
works we come to know that he has a great knowledge of society and how evils of
society is connected with each person who lives in society.
He
is deep knowledge of human life has various reasons, the very first is his life
as a child, he has passed his childhood as his character Oliver Twist has
passed, as a very lonely child and this is the reason that in his novels he
reflects the problems of poor children. The very second reason is he has worked
as a clerk in the office of lawyer in court, so he has good and enough
knowledge of enemies of society as well as victims of society. Third reason is he has worked as an editor
as well as manager in the company of magazines, so he has a good knowledge of
writing and expressing himself in a way that audience could accept him. The
fourth and the last reason is his acting skills, he is good in expressing human
emotions.
These
experiences of Dickens have helped him a lot to express the cruel laws and
reality of people in society. His novels have always a perfect narratives and
the most important part is his general plan of writing he uses lots of humor
in his novels, as per him the best way of telling the factual things is in
humorous way. Dickens connects the element of humor with pathos. Dickens
serves both imagination and sensitivity very well in his novels.
If
we take a look of various characters of Dickens’s novels, the characters are
two types, first is very innocent as Oliver and the other one is like devilish
or we can say horrible like Fagin and Bill Sykes. We find them very promoting,
they promotes their own time, their own era but not only the good element, we
can say for characters and narration of Dickens that,
“They starts with defects and ends with perfection”
As
in his novel “Oliver Twist” he has started the life of a child with all
evilness around him, and the novel ends with the peaceful and happy life of
child. The villains of his novels are also famous that they represent the life
of criminals of their time and dark side of London. In “The Old CuriosityShop" there is another child but her life ends with a tragic end, she dies
at the end.
Dickens clutches his public’s attention with
combining joy and sorrow, laughter and tears. He provides both emotions in one
as an organic wholeness.
The
only limitation of his works is it lacks reality sometimes. We cannot accept
such facts he has presented, because he always projects paradox in his
characters and novels, he is not able to give proper justice to one part. For
example we can take his projection of urban life which is sometimes highly
imaginative rather than realistic.
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