What can we learn from What can we learn from Dickens and his work?Dickens and his work?
How can we apply what we How can we apply what we learn to our lives today?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 Dickens lived during a period of contradictions.period of contradictions.
child labor
Dickens—his life and worksDickens—his life and works
Charles Dickens
““Dickens’ greatest friendship Dickens’ greatest friendship was, from the beginning, with his was, from the beginning, with his
audience.”audience.”
English literature, English literature, his creativity is his creativity is rivaled only by rivaled only by Shakespeare's.”Shakespeare's.”
““In all ofIn all of
How did Dickens influence Victorian How did Dickens influence Victorian and modern Christmas traditions?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.”And no one wish to lay it down.”
Charles DickensCharles DickensA Christmas CarolA Christmas Carol
Literary QuotesLiterary Quotes
Bah Bah Humbug!Humbug!
"Mankind was my business.”
Ignorance & WantIgnorance & Want
““I wear the chains I forged in life.”I wear the chains I forged in life.”
•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 Sitehttp://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/dickens/dickensov.html
•Victoriana http://www.victoriana.com/welcome/
•The World of Charles Dickens http://www.geocities.com/pdubelbeis/
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