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Classic comparison between “The return of Native” and “Great Expectations”11

Actuality of the course work. comparing classic novels such as "The Return of the Native" and "Great Expectations" can be a valuable exercise for students to develop their critical thinking skills and gain a deeper understanding of literature. By analyzing the similarities and differences between these two works, students can explore the themes, characters, and plot structures that make these novels enduring classics. Additionally, comparing classic works of literature can help students appreciate the cultural and historical context in which these novels were written and understand how they continue to influence contemporary literature and society.
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The object of the course paper is the notable authors Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy
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1. Biography of Charles Dickens
When he passed away, he was just 58 years old. He had wished that his horse would be killed; In his Gad's Hill home, a casket adorned with scarlet geraniums contained his body. Accolades poured in from everywhere his local Britain and from around the world. Legislators, plebeians, and individual authors generally lamented his passing. The monumental Dickens study by Peter Ackroyd says that the news of Charles Dickens' death on June 9, 1870, reverberated across the Atlantic, prompting Longfellow to say that he had never heard of "an author's death to cause such general mourning." Thomas Carlyle of England wrote: It is a worldwide event in which one talent suddenly vanishes. "Also, the day after his passing, the paper Dickens once altered, the London Day to day News, announced that Dickens had been "insistently the author of his age. The nature of life in the nineteenth century can be seen more clearly in his depictions of contemporary life than in contemporary records. "[3,56]
It was a judgment that has been demonstrated more than keen. In addition to the fact that dickens was a famous recorder of the existence of his times, yet he was likewise an extraordinarily effective man of letters. One of the additional fascinating parts of Dickens life, truth be told, was the level of prominence which he encountered during his lifetime. There was no imaginative foulness or disregard of his works. Dickens became a phenomenal literary success on both sides of the Atlantic when his book The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was published at the age of 24. He had written five hugely successful books by the time he was thirty, including classics like Oliver Twistand and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
His initial time of imagination was stepped by a proclivity to go along with and the picaresque, and from the get-go his readership wondered about his mix of characters. Dickens had a cast of leading and supporting characters that would make a Hollywood casting director envious, despite the fact that his plots were not always swift and precise. During his relatively brief creative career, it has been estimated that Dickens created more than 2,000 characters of this kind. He composed fourteen full books most more than 800 pages in their cutting edge releases as well as portrayals, travel, and Christmas books, and was working on his fifteenth novel when he passed on. Dickens developed throughout his life; He was not content to repeat successful formulas. He took risks; he addressed social issues; He was not afraid to experiment with ideas. He was a well-known novelist who was never content with his reputation.
Dark and brooding novels that illuminated a region of England that most people would have preferred to remain dark illuminated his final years. The solemn tone of Hopeless House and Tough situations mirrored the cruel social truth of a Britain stunned with modern advancement at any cost. Unexpectedly, a considerable lot of the cultural ills which Dickens expounded on in such books had proactively been corrected when of distribution. Dickens could never forget another era, the 1850s and 1860s in England, which were years of hope and prosperity for him as a child. All through his work there is a steady getting back to subjects of his own young life: of debtor's prisons, like the one to which his father was once sent, and family business. Both the city and the country were represented in Dickens' writing, as was his own identity. His portrayals of Victorian London have, as was forecasted by the Day to day News, become verifiable records of a world currently everlastingly lost.
This immensely inventive author's fame has not diminished over time. He and his countryman William Shakespeare are the authors about whom the English language has written the most. His books not just scaffold societies, similarly famous in a significant number of the world's dialects, yet they likewise length ages, interesting to grown-up and youthful perusers the same. In high schools, books like Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, The Personal History of David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectation have been part of the canon of literature for a long time. This is because, like in A Tale of Two Cities, they show young characters facing life with both determination and humor. Charles Dickens was the second of John and Elizabeth Barrow Dickens' eight children. His father was a servant who died before Charles Dickens arrived, but he always tried to appear higher than his position would allow. John Dickens resembled the aristocracy in his appearance, manner, and speech, and his propensity to live beyond his means ultimately led to one of his early tragedies. Office workers and bureaucrats were on the mother's side, including Elizabeth Barrow's father, who had fled procreation after being accused of taking money from his job. Workers and convicts in flight hence make up piece of the family bundle Charles Dickens was naturally introduced to on February 7, 1812. His origination was Portsmouth, where his dad, utilized by the Compensation Office of the Naval force, was then positioned. Dickens spent most of his childhood in towns on the south coast of England. His family moved around a lot, even if they only changed places within one town. They even lived briefly in London. However he is always connected with that different and crowded capital, Dickens truth be told lived in London for just about portion of his life. His early and latter decades in Kent were spent in and around the cities of Rochester and Chatham.
Dickens immortalized his parents as characters in his fiction, portraying his mother as the rambunctious Mrs. Nickleby and his father as the eloquent Mr. Micawber. Dickens was first taught to read and speak Latin by his mother. By age six, after the family had at last settled close to Chatham, he and his more seasoned sister Fanny went to a Ladies School, supposed such foundations were for the most part shown to more seasoned ladies who had no genuine preparation in training, yet who were taught themselves. Dickens benefited from such instruction, but he particularly recalled the birch rods used on stubborn students later in life. At about this age, Dickens started his long lasting relationship with books, finding crafted by Tobias Smollet and Henry Handling, and the representations of William Hogarth. Roderick Random, The Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, Robinson Crusoe, The Arabian Nights, and Tales of the Genii were among her favorite books. David Copperfield, Dickens' autobiographical counterpart, ponders reading, stating that it "was my only and my constant comfort." At the point when I think about it, the image generally ascends to me, of a mid year evening, the young men at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, perusing as though forever." A progression of kids' medical caretakers likewise educated these early years, and the tales they told frequently very terrible at sleep time filled the small kid's psyche with a substitute vision of the world from the fairly harmless and peaceful one in which he grew up. In many ways, the time Dickens spent in Rochester and Chatham was untroubled, and there was a sense of security that Dickens would never be a part of it again, even after he was a well-known author. Christmas was a happy time for the family, and for the first eight years of his life, the winters were particularly harsh, with a white Christmas every December. Typically particular inquisitive considering reality that Dickens the maker, as Diminish Ackroyd popular, "almost independently made the current day considered Christmas" as a snow filled world with family social events and generosity toward others.
Dickens left the Women School at the age of nine for a more formal education at a foundation run by a young man named William Giles, where he was said to have done very well academically and socially. Despite this, Dickens always pictured himself as a hopeless child when he thought back on his childhood. Additionally, Dickens first became interested in theater and drama as a young child. This interest served Dickens well later in life, when he became well-known in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America for readings of his claims works. However, for Dickens, such youthful distractions came to an abrupt end. The father's job took him to London, so the family moved there again, this time to a less-than-ideal financial situation that was made worse by his error. John Dickens was sent to the Marshallese Jail in London, an unconventional British debtor's prison from the nineteenth century, because the father's responsibilities required protection. At age twelve, Dickens was shipped off to work at a blacking circulation focus, setting names on jugs of shoe spotless, living alone in modest lodgings with never adequate to eat. No contemplate that he a short time later felt completely given up by his loved ones; He would never completely recover from the year-long encounter.
In John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, Dickens discusses these months, writing, "It is wonderful to me how I seem to have been so effortlessly cast off at such an age." No words can communicate the secret misery of my spirit as I sunk into this friendship. In fact, my entire nature was so afflicted by the agony and humiliation of these thoughts that even now, when I'm popular, caressed, and happy, I frequently forget that I have a wealthy spouse and children in my dreams; that I am a man, in fact; and take me back to that bleak time in my life. His entire life would be clouded by the events of that one year. In his section on Dickens in Lexicon of Scholarly Life, George H. Portage noted, "That Dickens's books would be full of characters who are vagrants isn't surprising." “The custom of the time permitted the housing of entire families in such debtor's jails, and soon the rest of the family, except for Charles, were living at the Marshallese, where Charles would visit them after work. However, even in such circumstances, Dickens' dynamic mind was capturing impressions and subtle details that would later be incorporated into his fiction. He listened to other detainees' stories of trouble and recorded them absent for later use while passing through the family at the Marshallese.
John Dickens finally got out of debt, saved his son from blacking, and sent him to a London school where he stayed until he was fifteen. Dickens' mom, nonetheless, was supportive of passing on her most seasoned child at work to assist the family, and Dickens viewed such a mentality as a further treachery. During the debtor's time in prison, his older sister Fanny was able to continue her education at the Royal Academy of Music. It probably appeared to be that the whole family had been contriving against him, and this extended period as a young adult set the vibe for his life as well as for his fiction. Dickens was, as Passage remarked in Word reference of Artistic Life story "in his fiery quest for his objectives, the epitome of his age, the prototype Victorian." Dickens displayed a strong determination to succeed in the world after leaving his miserable job and enrolling at Wellington Academy. He completed top of his group and the champ of an award for Latin, and at age fifteen remaining proper tutoring for good. After that, he learned on his own, and by the time he was eighteen, he had a reading card for the British Museum's library, which has helped many other autodidacts, including Karl Marx, grow intellectually. The hours Dickens spent at the library brought him into the domains of history and writing particularly Shakespeare and would outfit a storage facility of information from which Dickens would draw as long as he can remember.
Dickens worked in a variety of fields, including journalism and law, from the time he was fifteen to twenty-two. He continued to live at home with his family. After graduating from college, he worked as a law clerk for his first two years, where he learned a lot of material that he used in his writing. The accompanying four years saw him planning shorthand reports for legal counselors, and his shorthand was so exact and quick that it won him a task as a journalist on the Morning Narrative. He worked as a political reporter from 1834 to 1836, learning the ins and outs of Parliament and recording speeches. Soon, his reporting morphed into what is now referred to as a feature article instead of strictly news. He composed many portrayals about individuals from Parliament, about the political world by and large, and about idiosyncratic London scenes and characters, all of which had that specific amusing brand name that pundits have come to call Dickensian: potty characters whose antics are revealed in loving detail, caught in the author's fertile imagination's petri dish. Facetiousness of tone," is the manner by which Portage encapsulated these articles in Word reference of Artistic Memoir. Dickens could always see the absurd in anything, no matter how serious it was on one level.
Notwithstanding his paper work, Dickens likewise saved up his energy for the theater. He was a very involved spectator, but at one point he also applied for an acting audition, which was canceled due to severe cold. Additionally, he had romantic relationships in his late teens. He was introduced to the Beadnell family when he was 18 years old, and he immediately fell in love with the daughter Mary, who was two years his junior. The love lasted for four years, but when Mary was sent to finishing school in Paris, she lost interest in him, which caused Dickens heartbreak. Dickens was persuaded by this failed romance to put in more effort and succeed in his chosen career. Writing became an increasingly popular profession. Dickens was just 21 when the first of his sketches was published in 1834.
He published his first collection of sixty of these sketches in the two-volume Sketches by Boz in 1836. Due to an incorrectly pronounced pet name for his younger brother, Augustus, Dickens had assumed this pseudonym. However, many of Dickens' readers continued to refer to Boz affectionately by the name that accompanied his early successes even after the truth about Boz's identity was made public. The Morning Chronicle's review of this first book praised Dickens' ability to "look on the bright and sunny side of things," even when depicting London's slums. Dickens was described as a "close and acute observer of character and manners, with a strong sense of the ridiculous" by the same reviewer. By the time he was 24 years old, Dickens had already established his trademark optimism and wit. George Hogarth, who would become Dickens's father-in-law shortly, wrote this insightful Morning Chronicle review.
Dickens wed Catherine, Hogarth's eldest daughter, in April 1836. He referred to her as Kate. For the first year of their marriage, the couple lived in a suite with three furnished rooms at Furnival's Inn. His first child was born and he achieved his first literary success here. The distributers Chapman and Corridor, dazzled with the comic suggestions of Representations by Boz, contracted with Dickens to think of a progression of silly portrayals to be delineated by the well known craftsman, Robert Seymour. The first of these was written just a few days before he got married, and it was about the mischievous Londoners who went on fishing and hunting trips to the country. Dickens gained fame and fortune through the serialization of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, more commonly referred to as The Pickwick Papers. In any case, the illustrator Seymour committed suicide early on in the project, handing it over to Dickens, who was just 24 years old at the time and had complete creative control. Hablot Browne, a new illustrator, was found, and forty thousand copies of the final book were printed in October 1837 to meet the growing demand. Midway through the adventures, the creation of two Cockney characters—Sam Weller and his father Tony—turned the book around in terms of public acceptance, amusing readers and establishing a devoted following for subsequent installments. As a result, serialization became advantageous for a writer like Dickens, who was always attentive to his readers. Dickens continued to pay attention to the needs of his audience throughout his career, adjusting plots and characters during publication to better meet demand. "The Pickwick Papersended up as the most sensational triumph in nineteenth century publishing," Ford wrote in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. The book was relatable to students of all ages, could be read aloud, and lacked sexually explicit or offensive language. This young author's debut novel may have been his most well-liked among Victorian readers. One judge was known to read installments on the bench while jurors deliberated. When Dickens and his wife set sail for the United States in January 1842, they took the much-needed break. Dickens only wrote letters for the next five months and traveled thousands of miles across the United States as a tourist. Dickens, on the other hand, developed animosity toward the brash new nation after what had begun as a love affair. After seeing the slavery and wheeling and dealing in Washington, D.C., he was ultimately dissatisfied. When he got back to London, Dickens eagerly returned to his desk, began serializing a new novel, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, the first of his novels with a common theme of selfishness, and wrote up his American journals in American Notes for General Circulation. That book has Mrs. Gamp and Pecksniff, two memorable characters, but it was not popular in general.
With the first of his Christmas stories, A Christmas Carol, published in 1843, Dickens reawakened legions of his readers. He created this new genre and added to it every year with titles like The Chimes and Cricket on the Hearth, which combine fable and fantasy. However, A Christmas Carol has remained the most popular of all such short books, not only because of the book itself but also because of the numerous stage and screen adaptations it has been made into. The tale of closefisted Penny pincher who has lost the soul of Christmas and who rediscovers it through the appearance of the phantoms of Christmas past, present, and future A Christmas Carolhas more than some other work by Dickens become piece of the common mind. The term "Scrooge" has become synonymous with an impulsive and mean-spirited individual. However Dickens had before painted Christmas vignettes in his Portrayals by Bozand The Pickwick Papers, this was his most memorable full scale treatment of the time which he so exceptionally cherished as a youngster. It was happily gotten by general society and pundits the same. The Dublin College Magazine closed its revolting survey with the intense wish that "this prominent man proceed to train and benefit while he pleases us. As a result, fiction can claim the title of literature, and its authors earn a place in the temple of Fame that is larger than a chapel. This assessment has been largely accepted by contemporary reviewers. "The strength of A Christmas Carollies quite simply in its psychological credibility," Stephen Prickett wrote in Victorian Fantasy. Dickens' finances improved as a result of A Christmas Carol's success, but they were always stretched to their limits. At this point he had five kids and a spouse to help, as well as another sister by marriage, Georgina Hogarth, who had come to live with the family. The author's father also frequently required financial support. In 1844, the Dickens family moved to Italy, where expenses were roughly half of what they were in London, to help with finances. Pictures from Italy, a travel book about Italy, as well as additional Christmas books, were published. In 1846 the family again moved to the landmass, spending a year in Switzerland, and it was there that Dombey and Sonwas started, a book commonly acknowledged as denoting the start of Dickens' experienced period. In Victorian Fiction, Philip Collins mentioned: That Dombey and Sonis Dickens' "first mature masterpiece" is described in A Second Guide to Research.
The Personal History of David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations are among the timeless classics that came out of Dickens' later creative endeavors. According to Edgar Johnson, a biographer, "the best loved of all Dickens' novels" and Dickens' "favourite child," Charles Dickens: David Copperfield's Tragedy and Triumph is heavily autobiographical and features yet another protagonist who is orphaned. When David's mother marries again, David is packed up by his stepfather and sent to a brutal Mr. Creakle-run school near London. He is sent to work after his mother dies, staying with the Micawber family, whose finances are always in jeopardy. David is able to get an education thanks to prompt assistance from a relative, Miss Trotwood. He meets the oily Uriah Heep, another classic Dickens creation, while staying at school. David marries the impractical Dora despite being enslaved to the bar. David travels for a while after Dora passed away, and upon his return, Miss Trotwood makes arrangements for him to marry Agnes, the woman he had always loved. He can now begin his life as a writer with freedom.
From even such a short plot rundown, equals should be visible in Dickens' own life. Because it is written in the first person, the reader's memory of David Copperfield and the author is only strengthened. From the time it was first published to the present day, critics have ranked this among his best works. In 1851, Samuel Phillips wrote in The Times that "In David Copperfield there are more contrasts of character, more varieties of intellect, a more diverse scenery, and more pictures queness of detail." Another contemporary reviewer in Fraser's Magazine called the book "the best of the author's fictions." You see the entire world rather than just a portion of it. According to Ford in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, David Copperfield's immediate and lasting success can be attributed, in part, to the fact that David is a character who develops and changes, as opposed to Oliver Twist, which is essentially a "static character." The fact that it was more of a character novel than a social documentary was another reason for its popularity. In addition, as is typical of Dickens, there is humor, some of it grotesque, others just fun, like the character named Happy Micawber, who was named after John Dickens.
Less tomfoolery is to be tracked down in the group of four of books that make up Dickens' alleged Dull Period: Dreary House, Difficult situations, Little Dorrit, and Our Shared Companion .Of these, Disheartening House is for the most part considered to rank among Dickens' show-stoppers, imagining in its pages the primary analyst in wrongdoing fiction, Reviewer Pail. Dickens was also working hard as the owner and editor of his own magazine, Household Words, in addition to writing Bleak House and David Copperfield. During the 1850s and 1860s, he likewise became famous as a public speaker, giving emotional readings of his deals with the two sides of the Atlantic. One more significant commotion in Dickens' life was the detachment from his better half in 1858 and the relationship he created with the entertainer Ellen Ternan, a lady 27 years his lesser. Dickens had already fulfilled a childhood ambition by purchasing Gad's Hill Place outside of Rochester at this point. Dickens remained at Gad's Hill with the rest of his ten children and the sister of his estranged wife, Georgina, in charge of domestic arrangements. His wife took the oldest child with her when they split up. Dickens laid out the Ternan family at one more home, however expression of his issue was kept mystery during the author's lifetime, not being uncovered until distribution of Dickens and Daughterin 1939.
A further aftermath of the Ellen Ternan contact was a fight with his distributers, Bradbury and Evans, and the commencement of one more magazine, Lasting through the Year, distributed by Chapman and Corridor. Two additional novels that were well-received by adults as well as young readers were published in this magazine: A Story of Two Cities and High Hopes A Tale of Two Cities, one of Dickens' two historical novels set during the French Revolution, connects London and Paris through a select group of characters. Since its 1859 publication, this fast-paced, action-packed novel has delighted young readers. Sydney Carton, a lawyer from London, falls in love with a young Frenchwoman named Lucie Manette. But Carton, a bit of a drunk, knows he doesn't have a chance with Lucie. In fact, Lucie marries Charles Darnay, a man he looks a lot like. Darnay, a member of the French aristocracy who has fled to London, is captured when he returns to Paris on a mission and is put in the firing line. Carton saves his rival and pretends to be him at the guillotine. Just before he dies, Carton says the famous line, " It is a far, obviously better thing that I do, than I have at any point finished."[6,89].
A Tale of Two Cities, a well-known novel, has never received the same level of critical acclaim as other Dickens works, possibly due to its adventure-story format. However, according to a previous Examiner review, "This novel is remarkable for the rare skill with which all the powers of the author's genius are employed upon the conduct of the story," In this regard it is unparalleled by some other work from a similar hand, and isn't succeeded by any English work of fiction." While some contemporary critics have criticized Dickens for his novel's historical inaccuracies, others have said that the author intended to reduce history to a mere background. Barton R. Friedman in Creating History: English authors who wrote about the French Revolution said that Carton's escape was the only way out of history: to a world maybe dream, maybe reality where time is running out, and no difficulty."
One more famous Dickens novel for youthful perusers is Extraordinary Expectations,the story of youthful Philip Pirrip, called Pip, and his undertakings from adolescence to masculinity. Imagined as basically a comic novel and a rescue for his magazine which was enduring monetarily due to the serialization of one more writer's inadequately gotten novel, Extraordinary Expectationsbecame rather a book "brimming with the refined insight of development," as per Philip Hobsbaum in his A Peruser's Manual for Charles Dickens.
To be sure, a few pundits even put this novel among his other Dim Period works. Hobsbaum made the observation that Dickens "admonishes us to put no trust in the surface of illusions or class and caste." Our essential character is molded in youth and can never chang. Each desire for adjusting his condition that Pip, the focal person, at any point engaged is crushed over his head."
Great Expectations, one of Charles Dickens' shortest works, is about another orphan protagonist named Pip, who is raised in a small English coastal town by a strict sister and her husband. One day he tracks down a got away from detainee in the bogs close to his home and helps him. He promises to repay the boy for his kindness when he is apprehended by the police. Pip is also invited to play at the eccentric and wealthy Miss Havisham's house, where he falls for Estella, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter. Pip believes Miss Havisham when he receives another anonymous bequest that allows him to move to London and establish himself as a gentleman. The strange lady gave Pip money for an indenture to apprentice as a blacksmith. In London, Pip studies, attempting to propel himself, however Estella's appearance and resulting union with an individual understudy is an unforgiving blow for him. Pip soon discovers that the escaped convict he helped many years ago, Abel Magwitch, has been his true patron. When Pip discovers that Magwitch is not the real Estella's father, his world collapses around him. Pip's efforts to smuggle Magwitch out of England also fail. Pip loses Miss Havisham in a fire, leaving him once more broke. Pip joins a friend in the export business after eleven years, and when he returns to his childhood home, he finds Estella divorced. She has matured as a result of the difficult things that have happened to her, and in the end, the childhood friends once more cling to one another and walk away hand in hand.
A lengthy review of Great Expectations that was written at the time of publication for Dublin University Magazin concluded that Dickens's "plot, like his characters although improbable, has a kind of artistic unity and clear purpose, enhanced in this case by the absence of much finely drawn sentiment and the scarcity of excess details," despite the fact that the author's power as an author appeared to have been waning recently. We will be perfectly content to evaluate the value of his subsequent essays based on the standard provided to us in Great Expectations if the author is compelled to continue writing novels until the very end. Current pundits, like G. Robert Stange in School English, reverberation this early appraisal. " Stange stated, "Great Expectations is an unusually satisfying and impressive novel."[7,87].



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