A wilderness of dirt, rags, and hunger.” (727-28). Through the words of Dickens, it is seen that the unbearable conditions of the town is poverty infested. The plague affects the families of a single room and the disease of hunger seeps into the daily lives of the citizens. This is the literary evidence of his time’s condition. After the Industrial revolution, unemployment and over working was wide spread.
In 1838, Charles Dickens wrote the novel, Oliver Twist which is subtitled The Parish Boy’s Progress. I feel one of Charles Dickens purposes for writing this novel was to realistically portray the widespread poverty and the criminal underworld of London at that time. He uses vivid imagery to describe captivating characters and grim surroundings. I found the realism of the characters intriguing but was confused at times because of the excessive number of characters. Oliver Twist is an orphan that moves from home to home but never seems to adjust.
The effect of exaggeration style in Charles Dickens’s “David at Salem House” Exaggeration is a representation of something in an excessive manner and has been a familiar style of famous writers such as Flannery O’Connor, Mark Twain, Paul Bunyan…to show writer’s attitudes toward characters. In “David at Salem House”, , which allows readers clearly see how lonely David Copperfield is in Salem house and his strong endurance with the mistreat of school system. The first aspect Dickens uses to describe his characters is the use of formal vocabulary or use of big words for small things. Dickens chooses words carefully to attract reader’s attention and build characters he intends to show. The evidences appear in each paragraph :The Master and David Copperfield were “surveyed” by a stout man, Copperfield “supposed” the boy were out, the placard was “neatly constructed”, the cruel man “aggravated” his sufferings.
Great Expectations Stage I of Pip's Expectations: Ch. I to IX Chapter I 1. How does Dickens use setting to convey the mood right at the opening? 2. What does Dickens' description of the first convict tell us about him?
English 1102 “The Fall of the House of Usher” A nameless narrator walks us through the mysterious house of his childhood friend Roderick Usher on a gloomy and ominous day. From outside narrator notices house is old, creepy, has an evil atmosphere and a huge zig-zag crack in the roof. Has been asked to come to the house by Roderick because he is sick. Goes inside, find the inside just as creepy as the outside. Finds Roderick in house, super sick and pale, not himself.
Towards the end of the novella Scrooges conversion represents the conversion that the Author Dickens wishes society to undertake to forget the utilitarian way. Dickens’s criticism of the Utilitarian society is expressed through his characterisation of Scrooge who embodies all that the author despises. Scrooge is descried as a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
The literary consequence in Oliver Twist is a sphere of coherent, but cryptic, delinquency, whose structures are open not only to investigation but also to interpretation. In fact, ever since the first serial installments of the novel in 1837, an interpretive structuring of criminality has imposed itself upon the mysteries of early Victorian vice which Dickens only vaguely described. In the preface of 1841 Dickens met the moral objections of readers with a defiant statement of his characters' precise criminal roles: "It is, it seems, a very coarse and shocking circumstance, that some of the characters in these pages are chosen from the most criminal and degraded of London's population; that Sikes is a thief, and Fagin a receiver of stolen goods; that the boys are pickpockets, and the girl is a prostitute." This last identification--"the girl is a prostitute"--was hardly news, but it was nevertheless something new, for Dickens, as he went on to explain in the preface of 1841, had avoided naming Nancy's profession in the novel itself, and had indeed left intentionally imprecise the general representation of criminality: No less consulting my own taste, than the manners of the age, I endeavoured, while
Pip is the protagonist; everything is through his eyes, so everything gets his opinion. The character of Pip seems reasonably young but at the same time mature, “The distorted houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me”, Dickens uses personification to paint quite a child like image as you can’t really imagine an adult thinking of houses bending down and peeping through a window. The character of Pip seems quite intimidated of Jaggers and his office, “Mr Jaggers own high backed chair, was of deadly black horse hair, with rows of brass nails around it, like a coffin”, as the chair is seen through the eyes of Pip, clearly he is associating the room, even the chair, with death, as coffin is part of the semantic field of death. Pip wouldn’t be associating the chair with death if he felt comfortable. At the same time though he seems intrigued and interested by the room, this is clear when stative verb Fascinated is used, “”I sat down in the cliental chair placed over and against Mr.Jaggers chair, and became fascinated by the atmosphere of the place .
In Chapter 4 of “Of Mice and Men”, Steinbeck, introduces the character of Crooks by describing his room in the horse stable and his belongings. Steinbeck’s use of describing the setting doesn’t only lets us know where the characters are but in this case it lets us know who the character is. The objects in his room and the way they are placed all tells us something of Crooks’s lifestyle. Crooks’s character is intriguing because of the history he brings on his crooked-back. The way he has been treated and brought up makes him who he is today and how he relates to other people, especially white skinned people.
The image of " withered leaves" again points to the winter motif and paints a clear picture of death and decline. Always remember that the poet is not only referring to leaves here; he is using this image, through association, to connect to the general idea of loss of meaning in the modern urban world. The second stanza intensifies its attack on the modern world. The first two lines clearly express the idea that modern life is little more than a drunken hangover. The feeling of personal and social decadence is strengthened by the images in these