Poverty Narrative in Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens’ novel Nicholas Nickleby depicts the life track of the protagonist Nickleby from the countryside to London, and takes the boarding school in Yorkshire as a sample to reflect the cruel living conditions of poor children in boarding schools. This paper intends to reveal the social real...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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David Publishing Company
2022
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Cultural and religious studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 10, Issue: 7, Pages: 395-400 |
| Further subjects: | B
Nicholas Nickleby
B benevolence and resistance B The Poor Law |
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| Summary: | Charles Dickens’ novel Nicholas Nickleby depicts the life track of the protagonist Nickleby from the countryside to London, and takes the boarding school in Yorkshire as a sample to reflect the cruel living conditions of poor children in boarding schools. This paper intends to reveal the social realities by analyzing the survival dilemma of the poor, the abuse in boarding school, the mutual assistance and resistance to the oppressed people, in order to criticize the disadvantages of implement of The Poor Law, the construction of boarding school, which contains the thought of benevolence and resistance in Dickens’s works. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-2177 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cultural and religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17265/2328-2177/2022.07.007 |