问答题 Charles Dickens is believed to be basically an optimistic writer. Can you justify the view with reference to one of his novels?
【正确答案】正确答案:Oliver is the first of that brilliant group of child characters who are the very images of innocence, love and honesty. Though Oliver is orphaned almost from his first breath by his mother" s death in childbirth and his father" s unexplained absence and then meets a gang of pickpockets in London since he just escapes from the orphanhouse, Dickens doesn" t put him into the fate determined by the environment. The first person he picked pocket is his father" s good friend Mr. Brownlow and the second person he stole from is his aunt Maylie and finally he has a happy ending. Other optimistic characteristics are revealed in this novel. For example, the color contrast is very strong. The color Oliver sees in the orphan house is grey and then the color changes into lively and bright one. The color is dull when he is with the gang of pickpockets, while the world becomes bright and beautiful when he stays with Mr. Brownlow. This is the romanticist characteristics. What" s more, Dickens" s diction of personalization language and rich imaginations show that he is not totally desperate about that society. For example, the languages of rogues, robbers, whores are all matched to their jobs, for which jargon is also used. But Dickens doesn"t take the view of naturalism to make Oliver speaks such words. Instead, the words Oliver uses are polite, even elegant. Historically speaking, Dickens lives and writes in the Victorian age when English society began to feel the impact of change but still managed to keep the old values intact. Industrialization and capitalism had begun to bring wretchedness into the country, but life had not become totally impossible. So, Dickens was basically optimistic. He was aware of modern ills which he lost no time to castigate, but still wrote with the notion that the world was basically good and could become better.
【答案解析】解析:(本题考查了狄更斯的创作观点,虽然他是十九世纪伟大的批判现实主义作家,揭露了资产阶级金钱世界的种种罪恶,但他的作品中也反映了他乐观浪漫主义者的一面。可结合其中一部作品进行分析。)