狄更斯英文课件.ppt

Charles Dickens He created some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters and he is one of the greatest critical realists in the Victorian Age The main representative of English critical realism in 19th century The words of his grave read as follows “by his death one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world.” A Tale of Two Cites Great Expectations The Pickwick Papers Writing Style His writing style is marked by a profuse linguistic creativity.Satire, flourishing in his gift for caricature(夸张的描述) is his forte. His literary style is also a mixture of fantasy and realism. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery—he calls one character the “Noble Refrigerator”—are often popular. Comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats, or dinner-party guests to furniture are just some of Dickens‘s acclaimed flights of fancy（异想天开）. He is humorous and witty. Character- portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works. Authors frequently draw their portraits of characters from people they have known in real life .Among a vast range of various characters, marked out by some peculiarity in physical traits, speech or manner, are both types and individuals. His art with fun humor, nuanced psychological analysis, and descriptive realism, romantic atmosphere. Dickens expose and criticize in his works all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and corruptness he sees all around him. Dickens’s novels offer a most complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeois society of his age. His novels tell much of the experiences of his childhood. And almost all his novels have happy endings. The best he can do seems to try to retain an optimism with wishful thinking, as in his early works, or to express a helpless indignant protest. At the same time, he hopes to call people‘s attention to the existing social problems, thus affecting some reform. Comments Marx and his reputation as the UK and other Thackeray, a group of distinguished novelist,