Introduction: The great source of character-creation of Dickens is his return to child-like imagination. His vision of the world and its inhabitants is like a child’s and it is as true as that of the grown-ups. Dickens introduces children like Oliver Twist, Smike from the Nicholas Nickleby, Nell in The Old Curiosity shop, Paul Dombey … Read more
A Great Humorist: Except Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, no writer can match Dickens in humour and pathos. It was really very great of Dickens that amidst the poverty, hunger, misery and sufferings of the Victorian age, he could laugh and keep up his unwavering optimism. G. B. Priestley rightly says that the supremacy of Dickens … Read more
Observation as a Crime Novel: Oliver Twist cannot be called a crime novel. The crime world has been depicted quite realistically as the novelist had profound curiosity about crime and criminals from his very early childhood. He used to visit his father John Dickens at the Debtors’ Prison at the Marshalsea, and there he could … Read more