《双城记》中的主要人物分析 .docVIP

【标题】《双城记》中的主要人物分析 【作者】付 敏 【关键词】人道主义；?复活；自我牺牲；爱 【指导老师】余烈全 王艳蓉 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionA. About the AuthorCharles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, on England’s southern coast. John Dickens, Charles’ father was a respectable, middle-class naval pay clerk. His family moved several times during Charles’ youth, and the boy attended several schools, received instruction from his mother, and read voraciously. John Dickens received a reasonable salary, but he always spent more than he made. In 1824 he was imprisoned for debt. Two weeks before his father’s imprisonment, young Charles was sent to work in a black warehouse, pasting labels on bottles of boot polish. He lived alone in poverty, a rented lodging while the rest of his family moved in John Dickens to prison with his father—a common practice at that time. John Dickens was released after three months, and Charles returned to school. Dickens always remembered and hated this period of his life and the degradation it seemed to entail. Yet here he first became familiar with the lower—class people who appeared through his novels. Dickens also returns again and again in books to prison scenes.Considered the most widely read writer of fiction in the English language, Charles Dickens led the humanitarian movement of the 19th century, using the novel as a moral force against every social abuse. He defended the poor and lowly against the injustices inflicted by the powerful rich. While David Copperfield is considered his masterpiece, and A Tale of Two Cities his most popular, the tale of Oliver Twist is Hollywood’s favorite with A Christmas Carol, one of the most famous stories ever written. Dickens is seemingly simple, but actually difficult, method of making the characters real and unique, combing pathos and sentimentalism with inimitable humor, secures his true place among the giants of the written world.Despite his public success, Dickens’s personal life was lacking. He and wi