charles Dickens课件.ppt

Characteristics of Dickens’ Life A man of action and business in the world, a student and writer of books The best shorthand reporter on the London press The best amateur actor on the stage A successful periodical editor Radical in politics and ideology Concerned about social problems Faithful to the people, pessimistic to capitalist society, the expression of the conscience of his age 1) American Notes (1842) ?美国札记? 2) Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844) ?马丁·朱述尔维特? 3) A Christmas Carol(1843) 《圣诞颂歌》 4) The Chimes 《教堂钟声》 5) The Cricket on the Hearth 《灶上蟋蟀》 1850-1870，The third period, a Period of steadily intensifying pessimism, showing underlying tone of bitterness, loss of hope for English bourgeois society In his novels of this period, Dickens, consciously and subconsciously, shows himself more and more at odds with bourgeois（资产阶级的） society . 1) Bleak House(1852-1853) ?荒凉山庄? 2) Hard Times(1854) ?艰难时世? 3) Little Dorrit (1855-1857)?小杜丽? 4) A Tale of Two Cities(1859) ?双城记? 5) Great Expectations(1860-1861) ?远大前程? 6) Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) ?我们的共同朋友? 7) Edwin Drood (unfinished)(1869) ?艾德温·德鲁德之迷?. His later works show a highly conscious modern artist. The settings are more complicated; the stories are better structured. Most novels of this period present a sharper criticism of social evils and morals of the Victorian England, for example, Bleak House, Hard Times, Great Expectations and so on. The early optimism could no more be found. 　　Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realistic writers of the Victorian Age. It is his serious intention to expose and criticize in his works all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy(伪善） corruptness（腐败） he saw all around him. In his works, Dickens sets a full map a large-scale criticism of the 19th-century England, particularly London. A combination of optimism about people and realism about society is obvious in these works. His representative works in the early period include Oliver Twist, David Copp