Topic Discussion：Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction: the setting, the character- portrayal, the language, etc., based on his novel Oliver Twist.
A.CHARLES DICKENS USES A MIXTURE OF THE CONTEMPORARY AND RECOLLECTED PAST AS HIS FICTIONAL SETTING. IN HIS WORKS, HE SETS OUT A FULL MAP AND A LARGE SCALE CRITICISM OF THE 19TH CENTURY ENGLAND, ESPECIALLY LONDON. OLIVER TWIST IS HIS EARLY NOVEL, IN WHICH DICKENS REVEALS THE DEHUMANIZING WORKHOUSE SYSTEM AND THE DARK, CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD LIFE.
B.CHARACTER-PORTRAYAL IS THE MOST DISTINGUISHED FEATURE OF DICKENS’S WORKS. HIS WORKS BEST-DEPICTED CHARACTERS ARE THOSE INNOCENT, VIRTUOUS, PERSECUTED, HELPLESS CHILD CHARACTERS SUCH AS OLIVER TWIST,LITTLE NELL. DICKENS WRITES BEST WHEN SHE WRITES FROM THE CHILD’S POINT OF VIEW. AND HE IS ALSO FAMOUS FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF THOSE HORRIBLE AND GROTESQUE CHARACTERS LIKE FAGIN, BILL SIKES.
C.WITH HIS FIRST SENTENCE, HE ENGAGES THE READER’S ATTENTION AND HOLDS IT TO THE END. IN LANGUAGE, HE IS OFTEN COMPARED WITH SHAKESPEARE FOR HIS ADEPTNESS WITH THE VERNACULAR AND LARGE VOCABULARY WITH WHICH HE BRINGS OUT MANY A WONDERFUL VERBAL PICTURE OF MAN AND SCENE. DICKENS’S WORKS ARE ALSO CHARACTERIZED BY A MINGLING OF HUMOR AND PATHOS. HIS HUMOR AND WIT SEEM INEXHAUSTIBLE.
