2. • Dickens was born in Chatham
and enjoyed country walks as
a child
• The freshness of his
observations are those of
someone who sees the city as
an outsider
3. Throughout his novels Dickens
explores the relationship between
people and the city as if it is a
living, breathing beinb
4. Williams says that the city
represents, ‘ noise, worldliness
and ambition’ as opposed to ‘the
country as a place of
backwardness, ignorance, limitati
on…’ (p.1)
5. Raymond says that in his
description of London Dickens
describes, ‘the human and moral
consequences of an indifferent
and ‘unnatural’ society…’ (p. 156)
6. Williams says that Dickens
dramatises London’s social
nstitutions, ‘as if they were
persons or nattural phenomena,,:’
(p. 156)
