"Tough Times"
Dickens's dark novels, specifically exposing the dark side of the British nation, although they did not write about the positive side of the British national wisdom in spite of the general trend of the rise of national strength at that time, they also truly exposed the negative and dark side of the British people. This was the result of the impoverished life of Dickens's youth, and the experience of the growth period determined the style of thought of a person's life, either light or dark.
Little Duli, published in 1857, was a life sentenced to life imprisonment in Martial west prison in the middle of London Bridge and South Street at George Church, where her father was known as The Father of Marciasie, who was born and raised in a cell and was known as the "Daughter of the Prison". The Duli family eventually inherited a huge fortune and returned to high society under the promotion of Arthur. The focus of this novel is that Du Li, no matter who is in adversity or soaring, is like a white lotus, out of the mud without staining, always maintaining a warmth.
BBC drama "Little Duli"
Dickens's British society is full of power, reality, calculation and cold atmosphere, and little Du li is the pearl of that dark night. She did not wander for herself to be imprisoned, nor did she be embarrassed by a poor life, nor did she lose the goodness in her heart.
In the novel, Dickens also describes the lazy and lazy side of officials, but in fact, this is not all British officials, at that time, the British state was booming, and Dickens himself was able to write with peace of mind and gain fame and fortune.
"Dong Bei Father and Son", published in 1848, the novel is written wholesaler Dong Bei is cold and arrogant, in addition to commercial interests and money transactions, there is no other relationship between people, resulting in the death of his wife and son in a gloomy and indifferent family environment, he remarried his wife, but also could not get along with him, and eventually left him, his daughter was also beaten out by him, and finally the company collapsed, he felt lonely, at the end of the novel, the married daughter returned with the baby, and the father and daughter reconciled. Dickens specifically stared at the dark places of the British, shaping the image of Dong Bei's type of Englishman, but fortunately the ending was better.
"Dong Bei Father and Son"
Hard Times, published in 1854, was forty-two years old when Dickens wrote it. The novel depicts life in an industrial city, and Dickens focuses on the tense side of labor relations in British society.
In the novel, grin, a retired hardware wholesaler, congressman and educator, and Pondbe, a textile factory owner and banker, are good friends who together control the city's economic system and educational institutions. They focus on practical interests, do not pay attention to sentimentality, and take utilitarianism as the principle of life.
Glen's children, when they learned to walk, were driven into the classroom and worked with numbers all day and were not allowed to read poetry and stories. Glenn married his young daughter Luisa to Pondebbe, who was much older than her, and the marriage broke down.
Graine's son, Tom, is forced to assist Pondbe, who lives a debauched and debt-ridden life, steals money from Pondbe's bank and escapes, hiding in the circus and playing the role of a clown. After a series of painful lessons and being influenced by circus girl Sis Jupo, Tom gradually changes his attitude towards life, but is eventually sent to the Americas by Glenn, where he dies of illness on the way.
Five years later, Pond had a stroke and died suddenly on the streets of the city, and his wife, Luisa, remarried, and the ending was a little bright.
Lone Star Blood and Tears, also known as Great Prospects, is a novel written by Dickens in his later years. Written between 1860 and 1861, the novel was serialized in the weekly magazine Four Seasons of the Year from December 1860 to August 1861. Set on the eve of Christmas in 1812 to the winter of 1840, the protagonist, The orphan Pip, narrates three life stages beginning at the age of seven in an autobiographical way. The work has been adapted into films, television series and stage plays many times over the past century.
"Great Prospects" was written after the crisis in Dickens's life. He had just broken up with his wife, Catherine, and it caused him great pain. At the same time, he began an affair with young actor Ellen Tenan, a relationship that caused him more pain than happiness.
During this period, due to the further deepening of the understanding of the dark side of the British, coupled with the increase in age, the misfortune of personal marital love life, Dickens's depression was more severe, reflected in the creation, the optimistic tone was greatly weakened. As a reflection of the ills of society and a portrayal of the cold and warm state of human feelings, Dickens's narrative further increases doubts about life.
The actual meaning of the name of the novel is to refer to the disillusionment of the so-called "great future", and the novel is generally tragic, so some people translate it as "Lone Star Blood Tears".
The novel is divided into three parts, the first of which recounts the simple childhood of the orphan Pip in the countryside. He lives in the home of his brother-in-law and sister, and by chance, he meets a fugitive and steals things from the family to help him. Pip is invited to play in the yard of the old lady Havisham, falls in love with the beautiful but indifferent girl Estella, and begins to feel ashamed of her family origin. Although the old lady hated men and had an eccentric personality, the beautiful girl made Pip love to go to that yard.
An old woman who has been abandoned by a man uses the adopted girl Estella to take revenge on the man. She first makes Pip fall in love with Estella, but keeps him from getting her, and marries Estella to a villain.
Teen Pip
Pip was suddenly sponsored by a person who did not want to be named. He was sent to London to receive a superior education, and he was ecstatic about it.
The second part focuses on Pip's experience with his education in London. Infected by the snobbish habits of the upper class, Pip lived a life of luxury and depravity, and his moral character became inferior.
The third part recounts Pip's experience of protecting Magwich, the exile who funded his schooling. Although Magwich eventually escaped the arrest, in a series of changes, Pip finally returned to the noble humanity of benevolence and honesty, and deeply realized the preciousness of friendship and affection. The ending of the novel is still quite bright, and at the end of the novel, Estella, who has returned to singlehood, reunites with Pip and travels to British Australia to start a new life of self-sufficiency.
Dickens paid no attention to Britain's powerful hegemony in the world at that time, and he always haunted the British of the forces that he had been mean and indifferent to him as a teenager, so he wanted to write them out to vent his hatred.
It is worth mentioning that Dickens's novels, paying great attention to the description of British children, is actually his feelings in childhood, for example, Pip's childhood, in addition to the conformist life arranged by his sister and brother-in-law, he knew the fugitive and funded him, he could also go to the old aunt's yard to communicate with beautiful girls, these children's experiences with a little adventurous nature, in fact, are in countries around the world and in various periods, it is easy to cause readers to resonate and recall, which is a major valuable point of Dickens's novels.