charles dickens

CHARLES DICKENS 
    

Charles John Huffman Dickens was born on February 7, 1812. He was the second son of John and Elizabeth Dickens. The offspring of the family increase even up to seven children, plus another son who died in infancy. The inability to manage money well by Dickens made almost always go through many economic difficulties. Charles attended school in Kent until age 10, when his family moved to London. There, Charles was not aimed at a new school. When her older sister, Fanny, was sent to the Royal Academy of Music to study piano, little Charles, 12 years old, was put to work in a factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish. Meanwhile, John Dickens was imprisoned in jail because of their debt, leaving a few months later under the protection of the Insolvency Act. A dispute between Charles's father and the owner of the factory where he worked with Charles finally pulls the factory, being enrolled in school. His mother, Elizabeth, tried by all means to Charles returned to work, which he never forgave. The experience factory Dickens appears repeatedly in his novels, and also left a kind of phobia is dirty. In 1827 Charles left school again, this time by choice. He found work as a trainee lawyer, but aspired to be as playwright and journalist. He learned shorthand and, little by little, Dickens managed to make a living from his writing; began writing chronicles of courts to access later to a parliamentary journalist position and finally, under the pseudonym Boz, published a series of articles inspired by the daily life of London (Sketches by Boz). In 1835 Charles Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of the director of the Morning Chronicle, the newspaper that spread, between 1836 and 1837, the saga of "The Pickwick Papers" and later "Oliver Twist" and "Nicholas Nickleby" . Charles suddenly became famous. Pickwick imitations appeared everywhere. Despite being firmly established upper-middle class, Charles still has many family problems. His father is still in debt for most of the time, even to the point of trying to borrow money using the name of his son. Charles ends up paying most of his father's debts. Charles Dickens had four children after four years of marriage, and continually forces himself to work to avoid own debts.

In the years evolved from a slight Esilo socially committed to the attitude of Oliver Twist. These early novels gave him a huge popular success and gave him some popularity among the upper class and educated, and he was received with great honor in the United States in 1872, but Charles Dickens soon disabused of American society, perceiving in it all the vices of the old continent. His criticism, reflected in a series of articles and in the novel "Martin Chuzlewit" outraged in America, and the novel marked the most notorious failure of his career in the UK.

In 1843 Charles Dickens created his own literary subgenre, Christmas stories, with "A Christmas Carol". Write one for almost every Christmas the rest of his life. After a few trips to Italy, Switzerland and France, made ​​some inroads into the theatrical and founded the Daily News, a newspaper that would have a short life. His mature stage opened with Dombey and Son (1848) novel that reached almost perfect control of resources and whose argument novelistic planned to the last detail, thus exceeding the tendency to improvising his first titles in giving free rein to their proverbial inventiveness in creating situations and characters, sometimes responsible for the lack of unity of the work.

In 1849 Charles Dickens founded Houseold Words, a weekly in which, besides disseminating texts little known authors, like his friend Wilkie Collins, published "Bleak House" and "Hard Times", two of the most successful works of its production . In Words Houseold pages also appeared several trials, almost always oriented toward social reform. In 1851 his penultimate daughter, Dora, died not even a year old.

In 1856 bought the house where he had spent his childhood, Gad's Hill Place, and soon became his residence permanente.Fue around this time that the dissatisfaction of his married life was evident. By 1856, when Charles was working on a play that he had written and was about to open, hired professional actresses for the roles they interpret his daughters and his wife, Georgina, had been playing. Frances Ternan and hired two of her daughters, Mary and Ellen. It was not long before they fall in love with Ellen Charles, although Charles tried by all means keep this relationship a secret. In 1858, he and Catherine are officially separated. Anyway, Charles Dickens was always concerned about their children. Her youngest daughter, Cathie, married Charles Collins, brother of novelist and friend of Dickens Wilkie Collins. His second son, Walter, died while in the army in India, leaving behind huge debts he had to settle his father. Charles jr. after declaring bankruptcy once, began working with his father in an old diary that Charles had begun.

Although Charles's health was poor, continued almost until his death, making series after series of readings of his work, which led him large sums of money, while satisfying the urge she had for many years to act on stage. His last reading was held on March 15, 1870, and Charles died, probably of a heart attack on 9 June that año.De accordance with the wishes expressed in his heritage, made ​​during the month prior to his death, Charles Dickens was buried in a ceremony extremely private, in Westminster abbey. Aside from his doctor and his lawyer, the only attendees were eight members of his family (his ex-wife Catherine did not attend), Wilkie Collins and John Forster, the oldest friend of Charles and literary companion.

ARGUMENTO OLIVER TWIST

The book tells the story of a poor woman, tired and pregnant is in London that there before giving birth, is collected and taken to a hospice where the child born of this. The mother was in such bad shape that dies in childbirth, the newborn child a man named Sr.Bumble (Hospice owner), having no name decided to put the little Oliver Twist, which then maintains parish, feeding and a place to sleep.

Until one day the Sr.Bumble decides to take him to work at a funeral home with a man Sr.Sowerberry, a gravedigger, but Oliver does not do very much, and returns to the hospice because of an unfortunate event.

Then he goes to London where he meets a band of thieves, led by an old Jew with a beard named Fagin, Oliver which accepts membership in the band knowing there Betsy, John Dawkins "Artful Dodger", etc.. ..

One day Fagin sends Oliver steal, and if the guy does not give the old man a good beating, because that's how he treated children without hitting them obeyed him beat up the boys, because Fagin fed them etc ...

Oliver was about to steal an old fellow and I took the Sr.Brownlow fortunately the man took them to the police, and rescued Oliver's band old Jew Fagin, Oliver thereafter falls ill and Mrs . Bedwin cared, then Oliver is happy at that time because they care about him.

Later Bill Sikes Oliver captures, then it will hurt ...

Then Fagin is hanged for committing all crimes already mentioned before and later Oliver realizes that the old Fagin is the nearest relative of this family member and then the guy gets the inheritance he had abused and pasted Sr.Brownlow continuously adopts Oliver.