Week 2. Charles Dikens.ppt.pptVIP

Charles Dickens:Outstanding Representative of English Critical Realism Charles Dickens(1812-1870) Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to English literature. He is the representative Victorian author:his grand stories, vivid characters and in-depth depicition of contemporary life are unforgettable. Dickens Life Questions: 1.What was Dickenss fathers job at beginning? 2. What great economic changes took place to the family? 3. What happend to dickens at the worst period for the family? 4. How did Dickens improve himself then and how did he become famous nationwide? 5.Was there any similarity between Dickens and his father in the aspect of spending money? 6. when and how did he die?Where was he buried? 7. What is his position achievements in English literature? 8. What are his major works?Which is his favorite? Charles Dickens Life Q.1.a clerk in the Navy Pay Office海军工资处 Q.2.an extravagent spender who could not make both ends meet;being put to the poor-debtors prison Q.3.a blacking factory 鞋油厂 Q.4.a clerk, a reporter, a writer:collected much material for his future novel-writing;during the day,apprenticed in a lawyers office,in spare time, studied shorthand,read much in British Museum library;a parliamentary reporter to report debates on social issues. Charles Dickens life Q.5.like the father, like the son,but the son had the ability to make both ends meet by writing and publishing more novels. Q6.died of s stroke of apoplexy in 1870; was buried at the poets Corner of Westminster Abbey(西敏寺诗人角)inscritptions on his tombstone:He was a sympathizer to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of Englands greatest writer is lost to the world. Q7. Dickens is the outstanding representative of English critical realism Q.8.David Copperfield is Dickens favorite novel which is considered by many as his masterpiece: to a certain extent, it is an auto-biographical novel Dickens life 1.life: the clerk fathers debt imprisonment a miserable child