An Analysis on the Characters of Figures in Dickens Novel 英语专业毕业论文.doc

An Analysis on the Characters of Figures in Dickens Novel Abstract: Novels, as products of its age, naturally reflect the realities of the society. The creation of figures is one of the fundamental elements in novels. Especially in Dickens’ works, we’ll read a whole range of figures. They are not described in the same pattern, but in different poses and with different personalities. In this paper, the writer sums up categories of characters of figures in Dickens novels and analyzes them, intending to disclose why and how the author creates them, and deepen the understanding of the social reality of its time. Key words: figure; Dickens; novel; character 摘要:小说，作为时代的产物，理所当然的反映了当时的社会现实。而人物的塑造是小说的基本要素之一。狄更斯小说中有各式各样的人物，他们造型不同，性格迥异。本论文试图总结狄更斯小说人物性格的几大类型，并且通过对他们进行分析，以加深对当时社会的了解。 关键词：人物; 狄更斯; 小说; 特征 Introduction As a master of story telling and characterization, Charles Dickens arouses my interest. Out of the vast host of Victorian novelists, Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot are the three greatest ones. And the first of these to achieve fame was Charles Dickens. As one of the greatest representatives of English critical realism, Charles Dickens successfully presents a picture of the 19th century English bourgeois society in detail of different social status and people. He holds the readers attention with his rich plot, horrible or comic figures, and sensational ups and downs in his vivid and intimate style and language. With the successful use of exaggeration, Dickens gives the figures peculiarities in their physical appearances or in their manners of speech or in some habitual actions or other, and it is these peculiarities that light up their individual traits and make them vivid and lively. Three categories of main figures in Dickens works Character-portrayal is one of the most distinguished features of Dickens works. His best-depicted characters fall into the following three categories. Characters who are innocent, virtuous, persecuted, hopeless chil