By Amy S Watkin
Designed to assist scholars advance their analytical writing talents and significant comprehension of the writer and his significant works, this ebook deals important feedback and methods on tips to write a powerful essay, and offers an insightful creation by way of Harold Bloom on writing approximately Dickens.
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Extra resources for Bloom's How to Write About Charles Dickens (Bloom's How to Write About Literature)
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Language, Symbols, and Imagery Any discussion of language, symbols, and imagery in Dickens must begin with the fog of Bleak House, which somehow naturally leads to the marshes of Great Expectations and the mist on the river of Our Mutual Friend. Dickens was a master of characterization, but readers forget that setting in Dickens plays a large role, too. Nineteenth-century writer and critic George Gissing demonstrates Dickens’s influence best when he writes about his own perceptions of London: London of that time differed a good deal from the London of today; it was still more unlike the town in which Dickens lived when writing his earlier books; but the localities which he made familiar to his readers were, on the whole, those which had undergone least change.
In time I came to see London with my own eyes, but how much better when I saw it with those of Dickens. (9) How to Write about Dickens 53 It becomes hard to tell which images of England—and particularly London—stem from historical fact and which have been drawn from Dickens’s novels. One expression of the talent that Dickens possessed is that separating fact from artifice does not really matter. History and fiction combine in his work to give us what perhaps becomes an even more nuanced and complex picture of his world.
How to Write a Good Essay 33 3. If you delete a sentence or more, use the ellipses after a period: The young boy tells Manette, “We common dogs are proud too, sometimes. . ” 4. If you omit a line or more of poetry, or more than one paragraph of prose, use a single line of spaced periods to indicate the omission: To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, . . . . . . . . . And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Punctuate Properly: Punctuation of quotations often causes more trouble than it should.