My Dear Fellow-Literati,

 

Have you ever taken a moment to consider which Dickensian character most represents you, your personality traits, your quirks?

 

I often think about this question, and I would probably require more than one.

 

 

I tend toward the embodiment of Wilkins Micawber on a good day.

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.”

 

But, what about you?

 

For example:

 

 

Who does not love sycophancy, after all?

 

 

 

So which of these, or some of the many others, reminds you most of yourself?

 

The thing about Dickens is that,

He is one of the greatest writers that ever lived,

And he wrote in English,

Which is quite lucky for us, here.

 

 

 

 

Don’t be bashful, friends…

 

Out with it!

 

Who are you….REALLY…?

 

Regards,

Gamma

 

 

 

Bits of David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby, plus Mr. Jaggers.

Sydney Carlton.

Bull's-eye.

5 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

Sydney Carlton.

Carton & Darnay = Charles Dickens?

You can call me (Gamma) Carton, too.

I could, so ignobly/nobly, die for a good yellow woman.

At least, I have often wished that I had.

 

The total list of Dickensian Characters is actually not so easy to recall.

Correct?

We still remember so many of them, vaguely,

And we have forgotten their names.

 

Frodo Baggins

Artful Dodger 

On 8/15/2023 at 4:15 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

Don’t be bashful, friends…

 

Ok, when will this rubbish stop, GG???

I could never finish a Dickens novel (not for want of trying). Dickens' characters are unconvincing, his children characters come across as though they were 60 years old. His writing is unwieldy. His humour is lame.

12 minutes ago, JackGats said:

I could never finish a Dickens novel (not for want of trying). Dickens' characters are unconvincing, his children characters come across as though they were 60 years old. His writing is unwieldy. His humour is lame.

I read a lot of Dickens in high school, and you're right.

It's more understandable when you know he was paid by the word and wrote a lot of it in installments for some publisher.

Every pence counts ya know.

Makes me wonder if AN is paying GG by the word too.

250 senators are emulating Uriah Heep!

I have tried reading a few of the novels and found them very heavy going. There is a dramatisation available on the BBC iplayer ( I access with a VPN) called Dickensian. It is an amalgamation of several of the novels and encompasses many characters. I found it very watchable.

38 minutes ago, Keeps said:

I have tried reading a few of the novels and found them very heavy going. There is a dramatisation available on the BBC iplayer ( I access with a VPN) called Dickensian. It is an amalgamation of several of the novels and encompasses many characters. I found it very watchable.

Be persistent in your Dickens' readings...

And you shall very soon reap your many rewards.

 

Wackford Squeers. Thrash the little perishers (LOL!)

 

(and P.S. - Dickens is among the greatest of all novelists)

oh, come on... no Scrooges yet?