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Humour And Pathos in Charles Dickens “David Copperfield.”


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1 Head Dept.of English, B. D. Parwekar Mahavidyalaya, Parwa Ta-Ghatanji Dist- Yavatmal, India
 

Dickensis perhapsthe greatest humorist that England has ever produced. In this respect he maybe considered only next to Shakespeare who is the creator of great humours characters. Without humour he would have failed as a novelist. His range as a humorist is extremelywide.His novels abound in farcicalsituations designed with the sole purpose of amusing. When he deals with the human follies and foibles, inconsistencies and incongruities his humour becomesmoremature. It gets amildly ironicaltinge. Dickensloves his characters, he appea rs to be amus ed by them r athe r than contemptuous of them. Therefore his humour is tolerant and sympathetic. But when he deals with officials, lawyers, other bigwigs and is confronted with their vanity, hypocrisy, greed and insolence, his humour becomes satirical. Then it is very sharp and pointed ready to hit and expose.

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  • Chesterton G.K. - Charles Dickens Methuen and Company London,1966 P. 183

  • Gissing George-Charles Dickens,WashingtonN.Y. 1966,Originally published in 1924,P. 121

  • Ibid, P.122


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Sandip B. Agrawal
Head Dept.of English, B. D. Parwekar Mahavidyalaya, Parwa Ta-Ghatanji Dist- Yavatmal, India

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Dickensis perhapsthe greatest humorist that England has ever produced. In this respect he maybe considered only next to Shakespeare who is the creator of great humours characters. Without humour he would have failed as a novelist. His range as a humorist is extremelywide.His novels abound in farcicalsituations designed with the sole purpose of amusing. When he deals with the human follies and foibles, inconsistencies and incongruities his humour becomesmoremature. It gets amildly ironicaltinge. Dickensloves his characters, he appea rs to be amus ed by them r athe r than contemptuous of them. Therefore his humour is tolerant and sympathetic. But when he deals with officials, lawyers, other bigwigs and is confronted with their vanity, hypocrisy, greed and insolence, his humour becomes satirical. Then it is very sharp and pointed ready to hit and expose.

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