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1、查尔斯 . 狄更斯笔下的少年形象解读An Interpretation of JuvenileImages in Charles DickensNovelsAbstract: This paper introduces Charles Dickens?painful childhood briefly, and then analyses juvenile image in Oliver Twist, Great Expectation and David Copperfield in comparison with Charles Dickens? painful grown-up expe
2、rience. The analysis of miserable childhood image and struggling juvenile image show the limit of Charles Dickens ?humanism. Then it will criticize bourgeoisie?s selfishness and hypocrisy in the Victorian Age.Key words: juvenile image; bourgeoisie; hypocrisy; interpretation摘 要：本文简介查尔斯狄更斯不幸的童年经历，结合着作
3、者成长经历对他的作品雾都孤儿、远大前程、大卫科波菲尔这三部作品当中的儿童形象及青少年形象 进行分析。 通过对少年儿童不幸的遭遇和经历以及青少年的奋斗的分析， 勾勒出查 尔斯狄更斯的人文主义的局限性，进而来批判维多利亚时期资产阶级社会的自私和伪善 .关键词： 青少年形象；资产阶级；伪善；解读ContentsI. Background Information 1II. Literature Review .2A. Literary current 2B. Charles Dickens .3III. Juvenile Images inCharles Dickens Novels .4A. The
4、 miserable childhood image .4B. The struggling Juvenile imageeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 4C. The lucky Juvenile imageeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee6IV. The Interpretation of Juvenile Imageseeeeeeeeeeee .6A. The shadow of Charles Dickens eleifeeeeeeeeeeeeee .6B. The weak strugglingeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 7C. Charles Dicke
5、ns humanismeeeeee .eeeeeeeeeee .8V. Conclusioneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee .e.910Works CitedI. Background InformationIn English literature, the Victorian Age (1832-1868) is a very important part. Of the thirty-six years, the first fourteen were filled with unrest, alarm, misery, and they contrast with t
6、he growing prosperity and general good feeling of the succeeding twenty-two years when English, having committed herself to industrialism and free trade, become for a time fhe workshop of the world”.During this period of time, many great cha nges took place in adm ini strati ons. Since the In dustri
7、al Revolutio n, the class structure in En glish society had un derg one radical cha nges.The in dustrial capitalists bega n to play a more importa nt role and vied for political power with the old aristocracy. However with the development of capitalism, there arose a powerful working class. The conf
8、lict between labor and capital was for some time the same as the struggle between the feudal and the bourgeois classes. But from the thirties of the 19th century, the struggle between the workers and capitalists became the fun dame ntal con tradicti on in En glish social life.The ignoran ce, in capa
9、city, and heartless nessof many of these employees moved Dicke ns and other writers to bitter satire; but the new policy was a cha nge in the right direct ion. The new law, though an adva nee upon the old methods of deali ng with pauperism, was enforced with a grim Benthamite rigidity and impersonal
10、ity which caused n eedless sufferi ng and humiliati on. The picture irOliver Twist (1838) is of the typical workhouse in the years before experienee and protests introduced ameliorating modifications in the administration of the law.Amid the multitude of social and political forces of this great age
11、, four things sta nd out clearly. First, the long struggle of the An glo-Sax ons for pers on al liberty is definitely settled, and democracy becomes the established order of the day. Second, becauseit is an age of democracy, it is an age of popular education, of religious tolera nee, of grow ing bro
12、therhood, and of profo und social un rest. Third, because it is an age of democracy and education, it is an age of comparative peace. Fourth, the Victorian Age is especially remarkable because of its rapid progress in all the arts and scie nces and in mecha ni cal inven ti ons.All these material thi
13、n gs, as well as the growth of educati on, have their in flue nee upon the life of a people, and it is in evitable that they should react upon its prose and poetry; when these new things shall by long use have become familiar as country roads, or have bee n replaced by n ewer and better thi ngs, the
14、 n they also will have their associatio ns and memories.II. Literature ReviewA. Literary currentIn Victoria n Age of tense class struggle appeared a new literary trend critical realism. English critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. The critical real
15、ists described with much vividness and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint. The greatest English realist of the time was Charles Dicke ns. With strik ing force and truthf uln ess, he creates pictures of bourgeois civilizati on, describ ing the misery and sufferi ng of the co
16、m mon people ” (Liu 118), especially the children?s suffering such as Pip, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist.Karl Marx gave the following characterization of the works of critical realists: The present brilliant school of novelists in England, whose graphic and eloquent descriptions have revealed more political and social truths to the world than have all the politicia ns, pu
