雾都孤儿——批判现实主义的力作英文毕业论文(编辑修改稿)

雾都孤儿——批判现实主义的力作英文毕业论文(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

Brownlow, with whom the Maylies have reunited Oliver, confronts Monks and wrings the truth about Oliver‟s parentage from him. It is revealed that Monks is Oliver‟s half brother. Their father, Mr. Leeford, was unhappily married to a wealthy woman and had an affair with Oliver‟s mother, Agnes Fleming. Monks has been pursuing Oliver all along in the hopes of ensuring that his halfbrother is deprived of his share of the family inheritance. Mr. Brownlow forces Monks to sign over Oliver‟s share to Oliver. Moreover, it is discovered that Rose is Agnes‟s younger sister, hence Oliver‟s aunt. Fagin is hanged for his crimes. Finally, Mr. Brownlow adopts Oliver, and they and the Maylies retire to a blissful existence in the countryside. Literature Review Since the novel Oliver Twist published, many scholars ment on the Critical Realism in the novel. Lu Jianguo (2020) analyzed the Critical Realism from the Dickens‟ life, the social background, and the purpose of writing. He thought Oliver Twist was Dickens‟ first authentic novel and also was the first time that he led readers into a real but terrible life of underworld. Chen Qinglan ( 2020) from the children education problem to show the criticize realistic in Oliver Twist. She pointed out Dickens raised many kinds social problems, especially the problem of children education. In his novel he cried hard for the mitering children and appealed urgently that society, schools and families must pay more attention to the children‟s education 本科毕业论文 6 and take care of them and help them grow up in a healthy way. Cui Tong (2020) mented Oliver Twist from the theory of knowledge and nature of Marxist to analyze the views on family, marriage and moral of the three classes, and discusses the social phenomena and the essence of conflict among proletariat, bourgeoisie and aristocratic. It exposes the bourgeoisie of exploitation and slanders on the proletariat. These studies reflect the difficult critical realism from different aspects. However, the critical realists didn‟t realize the necessity of changing the capitalist society through conscious human effort. Dickens was unable to find a way to solve the social conflicts. Oliver Twist starts from a powerful exposure of the ugliness of the capitalist society, but have a happy ending at the end. Here lies the weakness of the critical realism. The Comments of the Novel Charles Dickens is the representative of the critical realist literature. In British literary history, he is the most important classic writer except William Shakespeare, and is also one of the most famous writers in the world whose position can39。 t be replaced. Living in the British capitalist society, from his own hardship, together with the deep observation of the British social situation, Dickens created numerous works with various styles。 among which the most famous are the novels. Dickens39。 s core idea is the capitalist humanitarianism. His heart full of love and sympathy towards the oppressed, although he cannot think of the effective measures to solve the social problems except that hopes that people can change the situation by reform. He advocates freedom, equality, and charity, thinking that the human nature decides the human value. In his works, Dickens maintains “an unbroken faith in people with an entire pessimism as to capitalist society” (Liu Bingshan, 1993:362). He is intent on criticizing and attacking the social evils, the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy, corruption, money worship and so on. In his enormous body of works, he bined masterly storytelling, humour, pathos and irony with sharp social criticism and acute observation of people and places, both real and imagined. 本科毕业论文 7 In the preface to the novel, Oliver Twist, written in 18371838, Dickens proclaims himself a realist. He makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of city life under capitalism. The first eleven chapters provide a most bitter and thoroughgoing exposure of the terrible condition in the England workhouse of the time and the cruel treatment of a poor orphan by all sorts of philanthropists. The famous scene in Chapter II selected here, in which Oliver is beaten up and punished merely because he ventures to ask for an extra portion of gruel to alleviate his intolerable hunger, is only one of the many details to show the extreme brutality and corruption of the oppressors and their agents. Scenes like this abound in this novel, from which we can see the great critical realist Charles Dickens voicing the helpless sufferings of the poor and oppressed of his time. 本科毕业论文 8 Chapter 3 Critical Realism in Oliver Twist Since the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the 18th century, the class structure in English society had undergone radical changes. The industrial capitalists began to play a more important role and vied for political power with the old aristocracy. In this period of tense class struggle appeared a new literary trend— critical realism. The English critical realists of the 19th century not only gave a satirical portrayal of the bourgeoisie and all the ruling classes, but also showed profound sympathy for the mon people. The realist novels not only pictured the conflicts between separate individuals who stood for definite social strata, but also showed the broad social conflicts over and above the fate of mere individuals. The greatest English realist of the time was Charles Dickens. With striking force and truthfulness, he creates pictures of bourgeois civilization, describing the misery and suffering of the mon people. The Definition of Critical Realism The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the beginning of fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and de。