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Charles Dickens
英语1班
姜鸿英
brief introduction
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
Novelist
Notable work(s)
1 Oliver Twist,
2 A Christmas Carol,
3 A Tale of Two Cities,
4 David Copperfield
5 Great Expectations
He is one of the most popular English
novelists of the Victorian era, as well as a
vigorous social campaigner.(积极的社会活动家)
Writting Style
unique, clever personalities,a mixture of
fantasy and realism.
brief introduction of his early life
His family's early
moderate wealth provided
the boy Dickens with
some private education.his
early years seem to have
been an idyllic(田园)
time,and,he reads lots of
books.
his father was imprisoned
when he was 12-year-
old .Then his extremely
poignant childhood began.
influence to his life
He talked, later in life, of his extremely
poignant memories of childhood, and of his
continuing photographic memory of the
people and events that helped to bring his
fiction to life.
In the book,many of
events from Dickens's
early life are mirrored
in this book.sort of his
autobiographical novel.
backgrond
the book is set in early Victorian *England,a
time when great social changes sweeping
the nation .Although social class was no
longer entirely dependent on the
circumstance of one's birth ,the divisions
between rich and poor remained nearly as
wide as ever.
main characters
Pip: the protagonist (主人公)and
narrotor .he is
passionate ,romantic,somewhat
unrealistic at heart
Estella:Miss Havisham's beautiful young
ward.Pip's unttainable dream .she is
cold,cruel ,and uninterested in him.
Miss Havisham:a wealthy ,eccentric old
woman .
Abel Magwitch(the convict):a fearsome
criminal ,elevates Pip into a higher class.
Joe Cargery :Pip's brother-in-law,the
blacksmith.a quiet man.
Jaggers:a powerful foreboding lawyer hired
by Magwitch.he is privy to some dirty
bussiness.
main plot