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【标题】关于查尔斯.狄更斯《雾都孤儿》里的人文主义的探究 【作者】张 利 【关键词】人文主义；《雾都孤儿》；自由；平等；博爱 【指导老师】沈 黎 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionA. Brief Introduction of the author“Since the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the 18th century，the class structure in English society had undergone basic changes. The industrial capitalists began to play a more important role and vied for political power with the old nobility.” 1? Due to the support of the people?, this struggle for power ended in the victory of the bourgeoisie over the aristocracy. With the development of capitalism, there arose a powerful working class. Though the conflict between labour and capital was for some time the background of the struggle between the feudal and the bourgeois classes, from the thirties of the 19th century, the struggle between the workers and capitalists became the basic contradiction in English social life. Charles Dickens was born on February,1812. In his early years, he worked as a reporter and this experience gave him a good knowledge of the political life of England. Dickens’ father was a kind man, did not know how to take care of his financial situation and always ran into pecuniary trouble. Finally, his father was put into the prison with other members of this family. At that time, Dickens was eleven years old and lived by himself. He met all kinds of people, the rich and the poor, the kind and the vicious, and witnessed a lot of unfair phenomenon in the society. This unhappy experience of his childhood leaves such a deep impression on his mind that it becomes a recurring subject in his novels. As a man，he is kind and merciful, sympathizing the poor and hating the vicious and being clear about what to love or hate. As a novelist, he masters ingenuity on writing. He is good at expressing what he thinks and what people want to say. Therefore, a feeling of love and hate provides him with an inexhaustible source for his creative works. Dickens is noted for his description of pathetic scenes that a