Abstract :Oliver Twist by Dickens is characterized by a few coincidences especially happy encounters ,about which somereviewsare unfavorable.Thispaper,sharingquiteoppositeopinionsto the unfavorableones,provescoincidences have advantages by means of systematic analysis from the following four points : background of production and publication ,Dickens’radical ideas ,his unique artistic style as well as his firm belief“good is rewarded with good ,and evil with evil. ”
Key words :coincidence ;happy encounter ; advantage
摘 要: 英国著名批判现实主义作家狄更斯所著《雾都孤儿》,其创作的特点之一是多处情节的巧合。从《雾都孤儿》创作背景、发表形式、狄更斯的激本
论文由
英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供进思想、独特的创作风格以及坚定的善恶有报的信念等四个方面作以全面、系统地分析,以此说明情节的巧合是这部小说的优势。
Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens’first fully crafted with hard -heartedness ,tyranny and hypocrisy. He used novel. It centers on the hard years of an orphan , Oliver his unique humor , fierce satire and penetrating insight to Twist , and is set against the seamy underside of the Lon2 expose the dark sides of the then society. Meanwhile he don criminal world. Dickens created a lively picture of low showed his great sympathiy for the miseries and hardships life under the capitalistic system. As the author of the suffered by the working people. It is widely acknowledged novel ,he mounted a direct attack on the cold impersonali2 that the book’s main theme is positive and optimistic, ty of the workhouse system representing the class people which reflects Dickens held radical ideas at that time,and reviews were and are generally favorable. However, Dickens was severely criticized for introducing many coincidences in the plot of the story. For example , the first person that Oliver Twist pickpockets happens to be Mr.Brownlow , a good friend of his father’s. Later , Oliver is forced by Fagin to accompany Sikes in an attempted robbery of a house , (needing a small boy to enter a window and open the door for the housebreakers) , whose owner , Mrs. Maylie , by chance is his mother’s elder sister -his aunt. Such incidents which seem to be unbelievable are regarded by many as“uneven and contrary to the real life. ”Seemingly , coincidences become the negative side of the novel. Some even go so far as to think Dickens was not well -thought in plotting the story. As a novelist , Dickens represented English critical realism writing during the 19th century. He was highly praised by Karl Marx as put emphasis on readers’dramas. Considering that Oliver Twist appeared in a sult , he did not have the sufficient time that other writers such as Gustave Flaubert , who spent one week in choosing“a precise word ”, and Anatole France ① , who once had his works retype -set seven times , possessed. Under these restricted conditions , it was not easy for Dickens to produce such a compact and well -organized novel with a very complicated plot and vivid portraits of characters. His accomplishment proved that his plot of a story was ingeniously conceived and well -done.
Dickens was stage -struck , and he haunted the London theaters. This benefited him a great deal , providing him with inspiration for his writings and experiences that proved useful for his fiction publications , from Oliver Twist onwards. The plot of his story is unavoidably theatrical , to some degree , as a result of the influence of “one of the excellent novelists in Britain. ”Such a great monthly installment “Bentley’s Misscellany”, Dickens novelist did not arrange coincidences in the story without reaction and always kep
本论文由英语论文网提供整理,提供论文代写,英语论文代写,代写论文,代写英语论文,代写留学生论文,代写英文论文,留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。