The Inimitable
Charles Dickens
Karenward@clovisusd.k12.ca.us
What can we learn from Dickens and his work?
How can we apply what we learn to our lives today?
View the next 7 slides then predict the setting (time and location) in which Dickens lived.
Dickens House Museum
City streets—people & places
Dickens lived during a period of contradictions.
child labor
Dickens—his life and works
Charles Dickens
“Dickens’ greatest friendship was, from the beginning, with his audience.”
“In all of English literature, his creativity is rivaled only by Shakespeare's.”
How did Dickens influence Victorian and modern Christmas traditions?
“..it was the Christmas stories of Dickens that rekindled the joy of Christmas in Britain and America.”
“I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book….
to raise the Ghost of an Idea…
May it haunt their houses pleasantly,
And no one wish to lay it down.”
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Literary Quotes
Bah Humbug!
"Mankind was my business.”
Ignorance & Want
“I wear the chains I forged in life.”
Bibliography
•David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens
•TNT’s A Christmas Carol http://tnt.turner.com/movies/tntoriginals/xmascarol/ •Charles Dickens Gad’s Hill Place http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/ •Charles Dickens Victorian Web Site http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/dickens/dickensov.html •Victoriana http://www.victoriana.com/welcome/ •The World of Charles Dickens http://www.geocities.com/pdubelbeis/