GammaGlobulin Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 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 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacessit Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 Bits of David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby, plus Mr. Jaggers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gsxrnz Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 Sydney Carlton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolkandchance Posted August 15, 2023 Share Posted August 15, 2023 Bull's-eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GammaGlobulin Posted August 15, 2023 Author Share Posted August 15, 2023 (edited) 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. Edited August 15, 2023 by GammaGlobulin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GammaGlobulin Posted August 15, 2023 Author Share Posted August 15, 2023 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketDog Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 Frodo Baggins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby1947 Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 Artful Dodger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2baht Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 On 8/15/2023 at 4:15 AM, GammaGlobulin said: Don’t be bashful, friends… Ok, when will this rubbish stop, GG??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackGats Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketDog Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 (edited) 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. Edited August 16, 2023 by RocketDog 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loong Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 250 senators are emulating Uriah Heep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keeps Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GammaGlobulin Posted August 16, 2023 Author Share Posted August 16, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siftasam Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 Wackford Squeers. Thrash the little perishers (LOL!) (and P.S. - Dickens is among the greatest of all novelists) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddic Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 oh, come on... no Scrooges yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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