“in all of english literature, his creativity is rivaled only by shakespeare's.”
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“In all of English literature, his creativity is rivaled only by Shakespeare's.”
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Charles Dickens• Charles Dickens
was the son of John and Elizabeth Barrow Dickens.
• John was a navy paymaster and couldn’t manage money.
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Debtor’s Prison
• In 1824, John Dickens was thrown into a debtor’s prison.
• His whole family had to work off his debt.
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Debtor’s Prison• Had Joe not paid
Pip’s debt, he would have been sent to prison.
• Irony: consider how much Pip disdains prison system.
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Warren’s Blacking Factory
• In 1824 at age 12, Dickens was pulled from school so that he could work to help pay his father’s debt.
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Warren’s Blacking Factory
• The experience in the factory was very traumatic, and Dickens resented his parents greatly.
• This is reflected in almost all of his works.
• With Dickens, there are few happy, complete families.
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Charles Dickens
• In the factory, he makes shoe polish and vows to NEVER be poor again.
• His kids never knew that he worked in a factory.
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Maria Beadnell• In 1830, he meets
Maria Beadnell, whom he loves.
• She is very wealthy and thinks that he will amount to nothing.
• They date briefly, but she breaks up with him in 1833.
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Maria Beadnell• Critics often say
that Estella in Great Expectations is modeled off this ex-girlfriend.
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Maria Beadnell• In 1850, Dickens is
the most famous person in the world.
• Maria writes to him– but he is married with kids.
• They meet, and she is fat, ugly, and immature.
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Catherine Hogarth• In 1836, Dickens
married Catherine Hogarth.
• She is described as a “modestly intelligent, unimaginative, and young woman when he was twenty-four and she twenty-one.”
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Catherine Hogarth• However, after
having ten children, Catherine became fat and clumsy.
• She began to remind Dickens of his mother.
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Ellen Ternan• In 1857, after
being married 20 years, he blames his wife for always being fat and pregnant.
• He separates from her after meeting 18 year old actress Ellen Ternan.
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Great Expectations• Great Expectations
was published in 1860-1861
• Autobiographical• Dickens’ darkest
work• Well-received by
public
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Autobiographical • Poverty of a young
boy• Mistreated by
family• Unrequited love• Discomfort with
rise to gentleman status
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Characteristics • Written in 1st
person (this was a new technique—Jane Eyre).
• Had two endings (more on that later).
• Serialized
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Serialized Novels• Victorian novels
were serialized- published a few chapters at a time in newspapers or magazines.
• Mudies- like Blockbuster for books.
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Charles Dickens • Dickens dies at the
age of 58 from a stroke.
• He was in the middle of a novel– The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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• Pip’s sister tells her that “Hulks are prison-ships, right ‘cross the marshes” (14).
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An old forge and cottage believed to be the inspiration for the home of Joe Gargery, that simple, gentle giant of a village blacksmith, who is such a friend and ally to Pip in Great Expectations.
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• Restoration House was so called because Charles II stayed here in 1600 on his way to reclaim England's throne.
• In Great Expectations Dickens used it as the model for Miss Havisham's Satis House and has Pip describe it thus: "I had stopped to look at the house as I passed, and its seared red-brick walls, blocked windows, and strong green ivy clasping even the stacks of the chimneys with its twigs and tendons, as if with sinewy old arms, had made up a rich attractive mystery, of which I was the hero.”
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Chapter 20-21Pip Meets London
“I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window’s encrusting dirt, and to stand dolefully looking out, saying to myself that London was decidedly overrated”
(174).
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PopulationPopulation YearYear
1 million1 million 18001800
1.75 million1.75 million 18311831
2.4 million2.4 million 18501850
4.54.5 Before 1900Before 1900
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The River Thames (TIMS)- was 800-1500 feet wide and flowed through the city.
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Pip and his friends attempt to help Magwitch escape on the River Thames.
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At 8:00 am the sky turned black.
Lamps had to be lit during the day.
The smoke extended 4 miles beyond the city.
People would wander into the Thames and drown.
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Streets were full of horse waste and mud.
No sewage system- chamber pots were thrown into street, and waste was dumped in river.
No one wore light colors.
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In 1832, 445 were killed per week
Total- 6,700Later killed 15,000From dirty water
and waste
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Amount SoldAmount Sold AnimalAnimal
180,780180,780 CattleCattle
1,360,2501,360,250 SheepSheep
254,672254,672 PigsPigs
22,50022,500 CalvesCalves
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In the middle of city- only way to get fresh meat
Tons of animal waste and guts flowed into street- no drainage…
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“So, I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me. So, I rubbed it off with all possible speed by turning into a street where I saw the great black dome of Saint Paul's bulging at me from behind a grim stone building…” (165).
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Alcatraz of the day; Hard core criminalsWemmick and Pip visit one of Jaggers’
clients there in chapter 32.
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