Girl Number 20, Essay from Hard Times, Dickens, C.

Many critics who evaluate Dickens work place her poetry against thee back drop of her life events. Those who have examined her love poems are particularly fond of this method but those who have studied her religious beliefs are also prone to using it. Her gradual turn from conventional religion to her later beliefs in her own private heaven and God can be seen in many of her poems especially when put into perspective by the events she was going through at the time.

The Industrial Revolution generated the perception that applying solely logic to everyday activities could maximize productivity and efficiency. Charles Dickens explores the dangers of neglecting emotions and imagination in his novel Hard Times. Dickens separates Hard Times into three books: Sowing, Reaping and Garnering in order to reveal the negative consequences of industrialization and forsaking imagination for facts through the events, settings, and characters in the novel.

INTRODUCTION: Charles Dickens is said to be one of the greatest writers that has ever lived. Before we read one of his works in class, I would like you to spend some time getting to know this man and learning what the world was like as he knew it.

During the 1800s, Charles Dickens was one of the most acclaimed writers of his time. He did not just write books but he was a journalist, and play write. Many of his experiences and people in his life influenced his books. Because of this he was known as not just a writer but a writer for “the people”. He wrote about the workhouse, poverty, disabilities, social class, and so much more that effected his era.

Thesis: Charles Dickens is one of the most influential authors throughout literature today. His works influenced literature by relating social issues in his time to the themes of his stories. This inspired future writers to relate social issues to the themes of their stories.

To cope with his pain, Dickens read fiction from the authors of the 17th and 18th centuries, which actually shows in the lack of structure of his own works. Later on this would be what pushed him to write his novel, A Christmas

The nineteenth century was a period of controversy, reform, and revolution. Among it were people longing to spread new ideas, discover new things, and find who they truly were. Though the desires of those in this time were not entirely contrastive to the ones of those in any other century, differences lie in the difficulty nineteenth century people faced in fulfilling said desires. This is not to say that people of the time lacked ambition—in fact, this is to say the exact opposite. Despite their abundance of ambition, contrary to current times, people were often suppressed from using their ambition to promote ideas that were considered socially unacceptable. Though there are many pieces of evidence to support this, multiple literary works

Charles Dickens' description in Great Expectations is a telling example of why people consider him one of the greatest and most successful novelists ever. Dickens uses his talent for descriptive writing throughout Great Expectations to develop his characters and themes. Many of these themes emerge from Dickens' personal experiences, specifically his emphasis on the importance of education and his ideas that wealth and position are

Two short years later Dickens had to leave school again to go back to work as an office boy to help support his family. Dickens experience as working as an office boy was the beginning of his writing career. Two more short years later Charles started writing for two major London newspapers. While in his mid years Charles got married to Catherine Hogarth. The couple ended up having ten children together before the couple got divorced in 1858. Charles began writing during the “Victorian Era” which is the era that Queen Victoria was in rule. The writing that he composed was either novels or short stories.   All of the writings of Charles Dickens were based on the mid 1800’s and early 1900’s. Charles had the most acclaimed novels for the era he wrote in. Charles Dickens liked to write about social injustice, real life and the ever famous novel, “A Christmas Carol”. Some of the more famous characters he wrote about are; Ebenezer Scrooge, David Copperfield and Orphan Oliver. One of his more famous writings “From Hard Times” came out in 1854 which was actually Dickens best seller. During his last years of life,

Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned British writers with well-known and widespread work. Dickens was born in England in 1812 and died in 1870. During this time, Victorian England experienced an Industrial Revolution, which impacted his life tremendously. New factories and industrial machinery changed many lives of the lower class citizens. The family grew up impoverished and struggled to maintain a good lifestyle. The family’s financial situation was strained as John Dickens, Charles’s father, spent money that the family didn’t have. These societal factors were influential in Charles Dickens’s life, and the same themes present themselves in his works. When an author creates a work, frequently themes of their life events are incorporated into the theme of the book, consciously or unconsciously. Victorian Age industrial-influenced strife was a common theme in Dickens’s life and presented itself throughout Dickens’s books.

Charles Dickens, a man of good humor, once said: “If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers” (Charles Dickens quote). Throughout his novels Dickens wove humor and wit, as well as including messages of poverty and charity that remain relevant to modern society. These themes came from childhood experiences such as, his father’s sentence to Marshalea debtor's prison, consequently forcing Charles into the role of the head of his household. Making the very fast and unexpected transition from childhood to adulthood impacted his writing and is where he derived inspiration for novels such as, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations.

In the 19th century of America, there are certain changes in the society and politics resulting from the expansion to the west America as well as civil wars. Famous artist in America turned to reality as a way to bring their feelings and concerns during that time. For those concerns that stem from realities includes widening gap in social class where there were class struggles among those of the white people and negro, and misjudgment between Americans and exotic immigrants. Those famous authors like Mark Twain and Henry James wrote down social and psychological transformations bring out in the nation by creating removed, impartial status of daily life. In order to bring readers to be fascinated and thoughtful by their novels and to depict their character and the reader’s setting to life, Mark Twain in the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Henry James showed the reality of life in his story Daisy Miller. There are two main part of realism definitions help to understand about the realism novels: the objectively depict skills which contain the texts appeal what authors really want to express instead of mentioning directly from author’s words, and real details which reflect real and historical social imagines, and make readers have resonances with authors.

The British writer Charles Dickens was one of the brightest and most influential people of his time. His many writings, including Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol, have been efficacious in many lives and have created a legacy of classics that will be read forever. Dickens, who was born in Portsmouth, England, was raised in a poor family, in which he had to work instead of attending school. Although not being able to go to school was detrimental to Charles, it gave him a chance to begin his career. After a few years of journalism, Dickens began working for a press under the alias, “Boz.” With the publishing of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Charles Dickens was ushered into the literary community and gained his first real fame.

   Charles Dickens' Great Expectations stands as one of the most highly revered works in all of English literature. The novel's perennial appeal lies in its penetrating depictions of character, rich panoramas of social milieu, and implicit crusades against social evils.1

Explore some of the ways in which Dickens’ attitudes to Victorian society are presented in the opening chapter of Great Expectations.