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Dickens Plan

This document provides a seminar plan for analyzing Charles Dickens' novels Dombey and Son and A Christmas Carol. The plan includes 11 topics for discussing Dombey and Son, such as Mr. Dombey's character development, Victorian education practices parodied in the novel, and Dickens' notion of family. It also includes 9 topics for A Christmas Carol, like whether it is an allegory, its portrayal of Christmas, and major themes of the story. Students are asked to read the novels and take notes reflecting their impressions in a reader's journal. They are advised to provide examples from the texts when addressing topics in seminar discussions.

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Dickens Plan

This document provides a seminar plan for analyzing Charles Dickens' novels Dombey and Son and A Christmas Carol. The plan includes 11 topics for discussing Dombey and Son, such as Mr. Dombey's character development, Victorian education practices parodied in the novel, and Dickens' notion of family. It also includes 9 topics for A Christmas Carol, like whether it is an allegory, its portrayal of Christmas, and major themes of the story. Students are asked to read the novels and take notes reflecting their impressions in a reader's journal. They are advised to provide examples from the texts when addressing topics in seminar discussions.

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SEMINAR 3

CHARLES DICKENS’ DOMBEY AND SON

1 INTRODUCTION: CHARLES DICKENS ( 1812-1870) AS THE MAJOR


REPRESENTATIVE OF VICTORIAN REALISTIC FICTION. WHAT IS VICTORIAN
LITERATURE CHARACTERIZED BY? СOMMENT ON DICKENS’ LITERARY
CAREER.

2 WHAT IS THE FULL TITLE OF THE NOVEL? COMMENT ON IT. WHY


“DOMBEY AND SON”, RATHER THAN “DOMBEY AND DAUGHTER”?

3. DO YOU FIND THE AUTHORIAL INTRUSIONS USEFUL? PROVIDE


EXAMPLES OF THE AUTHOR’S INTRUSIONS.

3-a COMMENT BRIEFLY ON THE PLOT OF THE NOVEL. FOCUS ON THE


EPISODES THAT YOU BELIEVE ARE IMPORTANT.

4 WHAT ARE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE CHARACTER OF MR


DOMBEY? IS THERE AN EVOLUTION OF THE PROTAGONIST? PROVE IT

5. PONDER ON THE FEATURES OF VICTORIAN EDUCATION PARODIED IN


THE PRESENTATION OF PAUL’s EDUCATION

---LACK OF PLAYor recreation; no attention to what the child does not


understand; little emphasis on relating learning to chlid’s life; rigid
systematization; emphasis on calculations and numbers; reduction of
literature to grammar and syntax

6 WHAT IS DICKENS’s NOTION OF AND IDEAL FAMILY?


7. ARE THERE ANY ELEMENTS OD SADOMASOCHISM IN THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDITH AND CARKER? COMMENT ON THESE
RELATIONSHIPS.

8. WHAT ARE THE FUNCTIONS OF THE WALTER GAY-GILLS-CUTTLE


SUBPLOT? THE EDITH-CLEOPATRA -CARKER PLOT?

9 COMMENT ON THE SCENE OF RECONCILIATION of FLORENCE with her


father.

10. THEMES:

-----REPROOF OF HYPOCRICY

----IMPORTANCE OF SINCERE LOVE

10. DICKENS’ use of HUMOR

11 SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE STYLE OF THE NOVEL.

САМОСТІЙНО ЧИТАТИ І ЗАПИСАТИ ВРАЖЕННЯ В ЩОДЕННИК


(READER’S JOURNAL)

READ CHARLES DICKENS’ NOVEL “ A CHRISTMAS CAROL”

1 IS THIS NOVEL AN ALLEGORY?

2 WHAT DI THE MAIN CHRACTERS SYMBOLIZE?

3 HOW IS CHRISTMAS PORTRAYED IN THE NOVEl?

4 COMPARE THE THREE SPIRITS WHO VISIT SCROOGE

5 PROVE THAT DICKENS COMBINES COMEDY AND HORROR

6 HOW IS WEALTH TREATED IN THE STORY.

7 WHAT ARE THE MAJOR THEMES OF THE STORY?

8 WHAT ARE YOUR PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS AND THOUGHTS


9 COMMENT ON THE FILM BASED ON CHARLES DICKENS’ NOVEL (“ A
CHRISTMAS CAROL”)

NOTE---ПРОХАННЯ МАТИ ПЛАН НА СЕМІНАРСЬКИХ ЗАНЯТТЯХ!!

ПРОЧИТАТИ ПЛАН УВАЖНО!

ВИСВІТЛЮЮЧИ ПИТАННЯ ПЛАНУ, БАЖАНО НАВОДИТИ ПРИКЛАДИ З


ТВОРУ ДЛЯ ІЛЮСТРАЦІЇ ВАШИХ ТЕЗ І ДУМОК !!

ПОЧИНАЄМО ЧИТАТИ ТВОРИ!

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