Course paper on the theme “Ways to create a gallery of children's imagines in the novels of Charlis Dickens”

CONCLUSION

English realists were famous for providing a view of English society across a spectrum of classes, from the very poor to the very rich. They criticized and laughed at not only particular representatives of bourgeois-democratic society, but also the then existing law system. English realists raised acute social issues and considered the great contrast between the rich und the poor to be abnormal in a civilized society. Dickens's realistic novels are especially well known for their critique of Victorian society. Dickens was particularly interested in portraying the terrible way Victorian society treated the poor, the orphaned, and the downtrodden.
In his social novels Dickens showed a broad panorama of the 19th century English life. He portrayed people of all types seen in the streets of great cities in his time: commercial agents parliamentarians, political adventurers, scoundrels of all sorts, lawyers, clerks, newspaper reporters, schoolmasters, factory workers, homeless children, priggish aristocrats, pickpockets and convicts. He described offices, factories, prisons and the slums of London. This impresses readers and they follow the writer in his pilgrimage along the roads of England. Much in his works is autobiographical: he knew the hardships and deprivations to his own cost. It allowed him to reveal the seamy side of Victorian culture, undercutting lofty notions of civilization and progress, exposing poverty and injustice.
As part of the study in the present research work devoted to narrative imagery in realistic novels of Ch. Dickens the following tasks were completed: the general aspects of realism and the English realism in particular were examined, the creative career of Ch. Dickens was analyzed, the main features of realism in the novels "The
Great Expectation", "Oliver Twist", "Little Dorrit “ were exposed through the narrative imagery.
Though Dickens was skilled at creating plot and much loved for his winking sense of humor, perhaps his greatest talent was creating the specific narrative imagery formed by the characters, many of whom are still household names a century and a half after their creation. His biographer, John Forster, wrote that Dickens made his characters real existences, not by describing them but by letting them describe themselves. Indeed, his characters are extremely realistic and rich, and even the most cartoonish of them glow with a certain kind of truth, not to mention some incredible names.
Dickens’s true villains are never redeemed, in this world or the afterlife, because they remain impenitent, but they will inevitably be punished. Many of memorable negative characters in the novels under analysis embody the hypocrisies of British class and the cruel practices of commercial enterprise.
In his novels Dickens also propounds new, supposedly more humane, lofty notions of Victorian romanticism emboded in positive characters. Goodness of heart wins out over the evils Dickens exposes. The writer himself pointed out that all of his positive characters reflect some of the christian teaching and they do so by the author’s intent. Conscience and noble intentions may cause their holders to suffer for a time but eventually they have an almost magical effect in countering socially embedded injustices. Dickens developed in his readers a love for man; he never lost his warmth and sympathy for this man. The author isn't indifferent to his heroes: his hearty laughter, his tears and his anger, his ability to treat every character as it were his personal friend or enemy make the pages of his novels alive and warm.