rious intention to expose and criticize in his works all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and corruptness he sees all around him.
(2) He hates the state apparatus, esp. the parliament, but as a bourgeois writer, he can in no way supply any fundamental solution to the social plights.
(3) He hopes to call people's attention to the existing social problems, thus effecting some reform or amelioration.
Charles Dickens' style [P241]
(1) Charles Dickens is a master story-teller.
(2) The settings of his stories have an extraordinary vividness, a result of years' intimacy and rich imagination.
(3) In language, he is often compared with Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vernacular and large vocabulary with which he brings out many a wonderful verbal picture of man and scene.
(4) His humor and wit seem inexhaustible.
(5) Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works.</P< p>
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