MISERABLE PLIGHT OF CHILDHOOD IN DICKENS’ GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND HARD TIMES
Keywords:
exploitation, autobiographical.Abstract
In the present paper efforts are being made to have a comparative analysis of the kind of exploitation in Hard Times and Great Expectations. The children are exploited by the parents themselves and the society as well. The early novels of Dickens expose the miserable plight of children in society. David Copperfield and the Great Expectations recount what Dickens himself experienced in his childhood. They are the most autobiographical of his novels. Even his later novels include children in the main cast. No other novelist has created so many children, in so many ways, so variously and so well.
References
I. 1Andre Mauris, Dickens’ England (Western Printing Services Ltd., 2934), p. 12.
II. 2Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 2nd ed. (1861; rpt. New York: Rinchart, 1972), p.6.
III. 3George Gissing, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (London: Blackie and Son Ltd.,1909), P.156.
IV. 4Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 2nd ed.(1861; rpt. New York: Rinchart, 1972), p.9.
V. 5From Pickwick to Dombey, p.250.
VI. 6Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 2nd ed.(1861; rpt. New York: Rinchart, 1972), p.10.
VII. 7Children of Charles Dickens, p.133.
VIII. 8Ibid, p.256.
IX. 9From Pickwick to Dombey, p.253.
X. 10Edger Johnson; Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph Vol.11 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952), p.983.
XI. 11Children of Charles Dickens, p. 194.
XII. 12Edger Johnson; Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph Vol. 11 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952(, p. 985.
XIII. 13Ibid., p. 983.
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