查尔斯狄更斯第三时期简介.pptx

1 查尔斯狄更斯第三时期简介 3). The Third Period: showing intensifying (increasing) pessimism 1852-53 Bleak House 1854 Hard Time 1855-57 Little Dorrit 1859 A Tale of Two Cites 1860-61 Great Expectations 1864-65 Our Mutual Friend 1870 Edwin Drood 第1页/共9页 Bleak House The main butt of satire in Bleak House is aimed at the abuse of English courts .The plot is built the lawsuit of Jarndyce over the inheritance of a family fortune ,which has dragged on for mang generations , setting relatives quarreling with one another ,driving some of them to ruin and others to suicide ,while the lawyers engaged in it obtain large fees from the case. 第2页/共9页 Hard Times After Bleak appeared the novel Hard Times ,a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and ethics and on utilitarianism . The scene of Hard Times is laid in the North of England, in an industrial city called Coketown , about 1853.It also shows Dickens’s acute intuition that something more was in ferment in the antagonism between the bourgeoisie and the proletarait. 第3页/共9页 Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a novel with imprisonment , both matter-of-fact or symbolic, as its central theme , William Dorrit has lived more than 20 years in the Marshalsea Prison for debtors , and is called the “Father of the Marshalsea.”Little Dorrit is a rich and powerful novel Bernard Shaw called it “a more seditious book than Das Capital” 第4页/共9页 A Tale of Two Cities In the basic plot, the fate of Dr.Manette is closely interwoven with the development of the French Revolution. A Tale of Two Cities takes ,as clearly as Dickens’s earlier works , the sides of common people against that of the privileged classes. 第5页/共9页 第6页/共9页 第7页/共9页 第8页/共9页