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Author:Marilyn Green Faulkner [Faulkner, Marilyn Green]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781453508121
Publisher: Xlibris
Published: 2010-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

Quotations taken from Oliver Twist, Penguin Classics Edition, New York. 1984.

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Books reflect the prejudices and racial stereotypes of their times. Fagin, the villain in Oliver Twist, resembles Shylock in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Each is a bundle of racial stereotypes rolled into one, evil character. Can books be great that perpetuate such stereotypes? If so, how and why?

About the Author: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was as interesting as any of the more than two thousand characters he created. Born in 1812 to middle class parents who loved to socialize and tended to live beyond their means, Charles was a deeply imaginative child, weak and somewhat sickly, who enjoyed observing others and exhibited an early gift for theatrics.

When Charles was eleven, his father was sent to debtor’s prison, and Charles was forced to work in a dark, miserable blacking warehouse for a year until his father could bring him home. This terrible season of his life had such an impact on Dickens that he never spoke of it, even to his wife. At age fifteen, he had to leave school for good and start out on his own as a journalist. His childhood experiences combined to form a man of great ambition and energy coupled with a deep appreciation for the poor and downtrodden of the world.

Dickens fell in love as a young man but was rejected in favor of a more successful man. He married the next available young lady he met, Catherine Hogarth, the daughter of a well-known man of letters whom Dickens admired. Their courtship, from the first, was rather more practical than romantic, and grew more strained as their family grew to include ten children. After twenty-two years of marriage he separated from his wife, though he remained close to his children, who were fiercely protective of his fame and reputation.

Charles Dickens died at the relatively young age of 58, exhausted by a life of extreme exertion; having written novels, papers and articles at a feverish pace for nearly forty years.

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