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The mere announcement that Charles Dickens is dead repeats the common sentence passed on all humanity. Death has once again demanded its own, and a claim which all men must sooner or later meet. We forget how many mortals breathe their last in every minute according to the calculations of statistical authorities. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, and Thursday, the 9th day of June, 1870, will be an evil day in the memories of all who can appreciate true genius and admire its matchless works. We have had greater writers both in poetry and prose, but they were not of our day and generation. For us just now this loss is our greatest. It would have been great at any time from the moment when he turned with aversion from the drudgery of a solicitor's office, amid the forebodings of his friends, and thenceforward rose in the clear light of literature, until he soared in the sunshine of success far above all his fellows. There are minds of such jealous fibre that the very merits of an author, his mightiest gifts and his most special talents, only serve as food on which to nourish their prejudices. Such are they who, while forced to admit the wit, humour, and power of Charles Dickens, always added, "but he was vulgar." Yes, in one sense he was vulgar; he delighted in sketching the characters not of dukes and duchesses, but of the poor and lowly. He had listened to their wants and sorrows, seen them in their alleys and garrets, had learnt their accents and dialect by heart, and then, with a truth and liveliness all his own, he photographed them in his immortal works. In that sense alone was Charles Dickens "vulgar." He was of the people, and lived among them. His was not the close atmosphere of a saloon or of a forcing house. In the open air of the streets, and woods, and fields, he lived and had his being, and so he came into closer union with common men, and caught with an intuitive force and fulness of feature every detail of their daily life. His creations have become naturalized, so to speak, among all classes of the community, and are familiar to every man, high or low. How many fine gentlemen and ladies, who never saw Pickwick or Sam Weller in the flesh, have laughed at their portraits by Charles Dickens. How many have been heartbroken at the sufferings of Oliver, been indignant at the brutality of Bill Sykes, wept over the fallen Nancy's cruel fate, and even sympathized with the terrible agony of Fagin in the condemned cell, who but for Charles Dickens would never have known that such sorrows and crimes, such cruel wrongs, and such intensity of feeling existed in those lower depths of London life, far above which, like the golden gods of Epicurus, they lived in careless ease till this great apostle of the people touched their hearts and taught them that those inferior beings had hearts and souls of their own, and could be objects of sympathy as well as victims of neglect.
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2. “There is nothing on which [the world] is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth.” -Scrooge to The Ghost of Christmas Past A Christmas Carol courant.com
8. Angels and Demons Most of Dickens’ poor characters are portrayed as humble and angelic, while the Rich are usually selfish and cold-hearted. One example of a humble and benevolent poor person was Joe Gargery in “Great Expectations”, who was always a loyal and true friend to Pip, even after Pip was embarrassed to be seen with him. “But this may be said of him [Joe Gargery] that he stands for a certain long-suffering in the English poor, a certain weary patience and politeness which almost breaks the heart.” (Chesterton)
9. Angels… Another poor character that was angelic was Rachael from “Hard Times”. The man she loved, Stephen Blackpool, was married to her sister. Her sister was a drunken bum, so Rachael cared for her sister and Stephen, even though she could not be married to him. “’Thou changest me from bad to good. Thou mak’st me humbly wishfo’ to be more like thee, and fearfo’ to lose thee when this life is ower, an’ a’ the muddle cleared awa’. Thou’rt an Angel; it may be, thou hast saved my soul alive!’” -Stephen Blackpool to Rachel Hard Times
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11. The Cratchit Family – sweet and humble family from “The Christmas Carol”.“ Dickens sympathizes with the poor and implies that their woes result from society’s unfairness, not their own failings.” (SparkNotes)
12. Demons? Many of the rich characters in Dickens’ books start out as heartless, but change over time through various circumstances they are forced to deal with. Perhaps the most famous example of this is Ebeneezer Scrooge from “A Christmas Carol” “The ethics of Ebeneezer Scrooge are finally redeemed by a heavy dose of Christian love and charity.” (SUU Faculty)
13. Reversing Stereotypes Dickens reversed these stereotypes in “A Tale of Two Cities” with the characters of Charles Darnay and Madame Defarge, Dickens reveals his non-stereotypical portrayal of nobility and peasants. He brings to light that not all aristocrats are cruel. Some aristocrats like Darnay do not want oppression nor possess a lust for money and power. Some peasants, on the other hand, can be more cruel than the aristocrats as what was exhibited by the character of the blood-lust Madame Defarge. (Raval)
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