charlesDickensPPT课件

1、Charles Dickens (1812-1870)第1页/共21页2contents1. his life and career2. his major worksfirst periodsecond periodthird period3.his literary creation &literary achievements 第2页/共21页Portsmouth, Hampshire 9, Poor quarterFamily in debtprison for debt 12, blacking Factory (鞋油作坊). happiest time1. his life

2、 and career第3页/共21页 his birth place第4页/共21页John Dickens (1785/6-1851) and Elizabeth Dickens (1789-1863), Charles Dickenss parents. 第5页/共21页restarted schooling a lawyers office 15shorthand the British Museum Library parliamentary reporter writing career1. his life and career第6页/共21页in 1836 Sketches b

3、y Boz博兹特写集博兹特写集 married articles for humorous pictures popular Worked without rest Buried at Westminster Abbey, Poets CornerPickwick Papers匹克威克外传匹克威克外传 died at 581. his life and career第7页/共21页Group portrait of Charles Dickens, his wife, Catherine (center), and her younger sister Georgina, engraved b

4、y Edward Stodart after the 1843 pencil drawing by Daniel Maclise. 第8页/共21页Characteristics of Dickens Life A man of action and business in the world, a student and writer of books The best shorthand reporter on the London press The best amateur actor on the stage A successful periodical editor Radica

5、l in politics and ideology Concerned about social problems Faithful to the people, pessimistic to capitalist society, the expression of the conscience of his age 第9页/共21页2. his major works （the first period）18361841, first period, Period of youthful optimist: fun, high spirit, naive optimismAt this

6、stage Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedied if only men treated each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding. Dickens thought that the whole social question would be solved if only every employer reformed himself according to the model se

7、t by the benevolent gentlemen in his novels. This naive optimism is characteristic of the petty-bourgeois humanitarians of his time. 第10页/共21页2. his major works1) Sketches by Boz (1836) 博兹特写集博兹特写集, the first book 2) The Pickwick Papers (1837) 匹克威克外传匹克威克外传3). Oliver Twist (1837-1838) 雾都孤儿雾都孤儿 4). Nic

8、hols Nickleby (1838-1839) 尼古拉斯尼古拉斯尼克尔贝尼克尔贝5). The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841) 老古玩店老古玩店6). Barnaby Rudge (1841) 巴纳比巴纳比拉奇拉奇2. his major works （the first period）第11页/共21页1842-1850, The second period Period of excitement, irritation and frustration: exposing the corrupting influence of wealth and pow

9、er, optimism turned into dissatisfaction and irritationDickens s second period began from 1842, the year after his first visit to America. Before the visit, Dickens thought of the United States as a world in which there were no class divisions and human relations were humanitarian. But what impresse

10、d him most during his visit there was the rule of the dollar and the enormously corruptive influence of wealth and power. Dickens s naive optimism toward the capitalist society was profoundly shaken. 2. his major works （the second period）第12页/共21页2. his major works1) American Notes (1842) 美国札记 2) Ma

11、rtin Chuzzlewit (1843-1844) 马丁朱述尔维特3) A Christmas Carol(1843) 圣诞颂歌4) The Chimes 教堂钟声5) The Cricket on the Hearth 灶上蟋蟀2. his major works （the second period）6) Dombey and Son(1847-1848) 董贝父子7) David Copperfield (1849-1850) 大卫科波菲尔, the most autobiographical, one of the greatest English novels第13页/共21页2

12、. his major works2. his major works （the third period）1850-1870，The third period, a Period of steadily intensifying pessimism, showing underlying tone of bitterness, loss of hope for English bourgeois societyIn his novels of this period, Dickens, consciously and subconsciously, shows himself more an

13、d more at odds with bourgeois（资产阶级的） society . 第14页/共21页2. his major works （the third period）1) Bleak House(1852-1853) 荒凉山庄2) Hard Times(1854) 艰难时世3) Little Dorrit (1855-1857)小杜丽4) A Tale of Two Cities(1859) 双城记 5) Great Expectations(1860-1861) 远大前程6) Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) 我们的共同朋友7) Edwin Dr

14、ood (unfinished)(1869) 艾德温德鲁德之迷.第15页/共21页3.his literary creation &literary achievements His later works show a highly conscious modern artist. The settings are more complicated; the stories are better structured. Most novels of this period present a sharper criticism of social evils and morals o

15、f the Victorian England, for example, Bleak House, Hard Times, Great Expectations and so on. The early optimism could no more be found.第16页/共21页3.his literary creation &literary achievements Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realistic writers of the Victorian Age. It is his serious

16、 intention to expose and criticize in his works all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy(伪善） & corruptness（腐败） he saw all around him. In his works, Dickens sets a full map & a large-scale criticism of the 19th-century England, particularly London. A combination of optimism about people and real

17、ism about society is obvious in these works. His representative works in the early period include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and so on. 第17页/共21页3.his literary creation &literary achievements Charles Dickens is a master story-teller. His language could, in a way, be compared with Shakespeares. His humor and wit seem inexhaustible. Character-portrayal is the most outstanding feature of his works. His characterizations of child (Oliver Twist, etc.), some grotesque（怪诞的） people (Fagin, etc.) & some comical people (Mr. Macabre, etc.) are superb. Dickens also employs exaggeration in