Provide examples presenting sensual images. Explain what senses they appeal to and what effect is achieved.
5. Dickens
introduces us to characters whose talk and antics are so gloriously
diverting that these characters exist in their own right, if they
have little or nothing to do with the plot, then so much the worse
for the plot. These characters — Old Weller (The Papers …) Dick
Swiveller … and all the rest have been called caricatures, but this
is to misunderstand both them and their creator. Literature is full
of caricatures, but this is not full of Dickens’ characters, who
are, indeed a special creation, the inhabitants of the world other
than this. Perhaps, they never seem to us human beings, yet they live
and bathe and have a colossal vitality of his own.
Analyse
the way Dickens presents Dick Swiveller and put forward your
hypotheses as far as the further development of the events and his
participation in them are concerned. What details may enable you to
forsee it . Use the text of the novel.
6.
“In writng the
book, I had always in my fancy to surround the lonely figure of the
child with grotesque and wild, but not impossible companions and to
gather about her innocent face and pure intentions associates as
strange and uncongenial as the grim objects they are about her bed
when her story is first foreshadowed.” (Dickens. Preface.)
What
characters does he treat as wild and grotesque? Who? Account for it.
