I did a term paper in my undergraduate years on the theme 'Children in Dickens'. England comes personal rather than historical in Dickens. The book Oliver Twist is the one that was prescribed in our tenth standard. Great Expectations captured both the mind of the child and the aspirations of the times. There is also the surrealness of Miss Havisham who remained in her wedding dress in defiance of her love lost. The other novel David Copperfield has the character Mr. Micawber whose ideas of management of money is so profound as it is fundamental.
On the moral plane though most of his novels have a moral tone none simplifies it than 'A Christmas Carol'. The influence of Dickens is more in the kindling of interest in Literature and in hindsight a capturing of the times of which he wrote. The drawings in many of his novels captures in vivid detail the rustic English life.
On the moral plane though most of his novels have a moral tone none simplifies it than 'A Christmas Carol'. The influence of Dickens is more in the kindling of interest in Literature and in hindsight a capturing of the times of which he wrote. The drawings in many of his novels captures in vivid detail the rustic English life.
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