LITERATURE - Charles Dickens

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  • Charles Dickens was one of the most popular writers in English in the 19th century. He deserves our attention for his ideas about sympathy, popularity and happiness.
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  • @anonymous.exe0178
    @anonymous.exe0178 3 роки тому +212

    who elses teacher sent them here :D

  • @tuanjim799
    @tuanjim799 8 років тому +566

    Charles Dickens had what is called the "Beatles factor." His writing could appeal to both the smartest and the dumbest person in the room. Like the music of The Beatles.

    • @1qwasz12
      @1qwasz12 5 років тому +14

      The Beatles are over-rated and I know only one of my peers who enjoys them.

    • @anthonyfazio503
      @anthonyfazio503 5 років тому +28

      @@1qwasz12 With other bands I wouldn't take offense, but I have to say The Beatles were extremely great. They had hits and then they had songs that weren't hits but were amazing songs in themselves. So amazing that if another band were to cover them they would have been bigger, more popular songs. Because the Beatles wrote so many great songs, those lesser known songs got overshadowed. It is very rare for a band to produce so many great songs. It wasn't just about the music either. The Beatles were the first band to draw attention to politics and the plight of people in society. They were more than "just a band". They were what society needed and still needs. Great songwriters who bring people together.

    • @SuperBradC
      @SuperBradC 5 років тому

      Cheers, the TV show, did an interesting little skit on the very thing that you suggest. Cliff, upon Frasier reading the first few brilliant lines from A Tale of Two Cities: "Boy, this Dickens guy really liked to keep his butt covered, didn't he?" LOL

    • @msthang5366
      @msthang5366 5 років тому +2

      I hate The Beatles..🤦🏿‍♀️

    • @hassouss4512
      @hassouss4512 5 років тому +2

      @milobdmx You are so offended by someone's opinion, it makes you the elitist of music elitists. Horrible thing to be.

  • @Bariom_dome
    @Bariom_dome 5 років тому +420

    Teachers should show this to students everywhere. This channel is a treasure.

    • @thugkittenix2633
      @thugkittenix2633 4 роки тому +15

      B- Beast fuck, my teacher is doing it now. because maybe she saw your comment

    • @wandering_fruitloaf7396
      @wandering_fruitloaf7396 4 роки тому +2

      Thug Kittenix Same here ahaha

    • @janamorgagni8561
      @janamorgagni8561 4 роки тому +12

      I'm here thanks to my English teacher indeed

    • @tangoz811
      @tangoz811 4 роки тому +4

      I would rather read their books and see what we think about them..

    • @ciroaldorisio8034
      @ciroaldorisio8034 3 роки тому +2

      well mine did, studying my fucking book for which i paid 20€ wasnt enough apparently, jesus fucking christ

  • @939bb
    @939bb 8 років тому +503

    I don't think that Dickens' shortcomings as a husband and parent were a result of the difficulty of being great at two things at the same time but rather is an example of how difficult it is to overcome the emotional, spiritual, and psychic damages inflicted by an unhappy childhood. While he was able to turn his pain and suffering into art, quite an achievement, he wasn't able to heal emotionally. It's usually easier to deal with such things in abstract, intellectual and artistic ways. He was in many ways driven by his demons, and that can, surprisingly, take you very far in life, but it doesn't make you a better person. In fact, the success may militate against real change.

    • @williampowell3378
      @williampowell3378 6 років тому +2

      True

    • @windstorm1000
      @windstorm1000 5 років тому +6

      First rate analysis of his art and reason forhis shortcomings

    • @TheWilliametal
      @TheWilliametal 5 років тому +4

      A person like him, who was so much empowered for his abilities with language and to express so much social knowledge, might haven't seen the best intelectual interests in his closest relatives. He was in every media, he wrote things that had never been listened before, that always made the book business warmed up and his life comfortable. These stunning abilities, which neither his daughters nor his wife were able to demonstrate, influence generations and entertain from kids to elders until today! A man who lived a childhood under the pressures he lived probably got somewhat discouraged to give his success away to be spent by incompatible spirits.

    • @Rg-es9kv
      @Rg-es9kv 5 років тому +1

      brilliant! thanks for this, solidified some fringe thoughts ive been having.

    • @tdsims1963
      @tdsims1963 4 роки тому +1

      A well-reasoned argument. Thank you.

  • @gtabigfan34
    @gtabigfan34 8 років тому +112

    Gogol,Pushkin,Balzac,Arthur Rembo, Emil Zola,Alexander Duma, Daniel Defoe,Giovanni Boccaccio,Miguel de Cervantes, Shakespeare,Molier,Ivan Vazov,James Joyce,Mark Twain,Ernest Hemingway,George Orwell,Kurt Vonnegut,Edgar Allan Poe,J.R.R. Tolkien,Oscar Wilde,Harper Lee,Elin Pelin,Orhan Pamuk,Nikos Kazantzakis,Elif
    Şafak,Gustave Flaubert,Victor Hugo,Guy de Maupassant,Dante Alighieri,Umberto Eco,Henryk Sienkiewicz.

    • @sedditguy1836
      @sedditguy1836 8 років тому +13

      *Nikos Kazantzakis* with *Zorba the greek*
      Loved that Movie ^^
      So many good ones left. I have something to look forward to in life. :)

    • @nikkib1509
      @nikkib1509 8 років тому +1

      Yes yes yees.

    • @LauM
      @LauM 8 років тому +6

      ORWELL, HELL YES.

    • @SilverCuckoo
      @SilverCuckoo 8 років тому

      George Eliot

    • @JimJWalker
      @JimJWalker 8 років тому

      Ahh Gogol...Ian Curtis once sang a sang a song based on his work. Maybe you remember it from the NIN cover from the movie "The Crow".
      "Dead Souls"
      Someone take these dreams away
      That point me to another day
      A duel of personalities
      That stretch all true realities
      That keep calling me
      They keep calling me
      Keep on calling me
      They keep calling me
      Where figures from the past stand tall
      And mocking voices ring the halls
      Imperialistic house of prayer
      Conquistadors who took their share
      That keep calling me
      They keep calling me
      Keep on calling me
      They keep calling me
      Calling me, calling me
      Calling me, calling me
      They keep calling me
      Keep on calling me
      They keep calling me
      They keep calling me

  • @antonk6359
    @antonk6359 8 років тому +211

    Dickens - one of the world's truly great novelists. Idolized by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, Orwell, Franz Kafka, Nabokov, James Baldwin, Freud - and me.

    • @iohboladefogo604
      @iohboladefogo604 7 років тому +10

      Anton K Who are you?

    • @antonk6359
      @antonk6359 7 років тому +61

      Ioh, o Filho do Pescador
      I am the Omnipresent Spirit of Existence. I am the Essence of Eternity. You see, friend. Unadulterated Truth is a little yellow duck. Never forget this.

    • @iohboladefogo604
      @iohboladefogo604 7 років тому +10

      Anton K OH! I'll never forget this, Omnipresent Spirit of Existence, the little yellow duck /o\

    • @louvee5009
      @louvee5009 5 років тому +1

      Me too

    • @sirswearsalot1813
      @sirswearsalot1813 5 років тому +5

      Lol. "and me"

  • @TheDeadlyRune
    @TheDeadlyRune 8 років тому +20

    Unfortunately when I was the words "social justice" I cringed because of the modern-day connotations it carries.

    • @chesterho9074
      @chesterho9074 8 років тому +15

      Yes, it is hard to distinguish genuine empathy and those who say "look how awful it is for them" then using other people's misery as their own little adventure. And at the end of the day, they make the cause and the sufferers look bad.

    • @therealdrag0
      @therealdrag0 8 років тому +2

      What's wrong with the modern connotation?

    • @ray0chama
      @ray0chama 8 років тому +4

      +therealdrag0 I'd like to see if I could shed some light on this.
      The difference between modern social justice and Dickens's brand of the same, is ultimately what it champions. Dickens's was trying to make a better life of those less fortunate (as he had been), and he did it in a clever, elegant way that worked. Although it was obviously of great importance and urgency to him, he played the long game with methods sure to succeed. He also refrained from demonizing others on the whole.
      The modern equivalent however, seems to focus on a more war-like mindset of guilt, which is not only wrong, but doesn't work. For example, the idea of privelage, a modern social justice buzz word. Where Dickens would say privelage is a good thing, not only personally but as well as allowing one a position to help others, contemporaries argue it is wholly bad because it creates inequality. Privelage will always exist, but Dickens understood that it could be a tool to help others, rather than an evil of the status quo.
      Furthermore, the idea of forced equality and conflictive ideas. Dickens thought that all people were deserving of the same rights and respect, and that we could further this by using our intelligence and influence to help others. Modern "counterparts" (I hesitate to use the term) will often say that certain people are more deserving than others, ironically because of their status. You cannot force equality, it comes from the way you live your life and encourage others to do the same. If you believe someone more worthy than someone else, you do not believe in equality.
      Really, social justice comes down to being a good person and wanting good things for everyone, not just certain races, kinds, or classes of people. I'm sure there are good contemporary social justice advocates, but the negative faction seems loudest in our modern times. Ultimately, it all must start with you and me.
      There is much more to be said about the subject and this is a rather poor and short explanation, but hopefully it sheds some light on the subject.

  • @madmadsterdat
    @madmadsterdat 4 роки тому +86

    0:00 - literature
    0:33. - entertainment
    2:12 - sympathy
    5:39 - nice, ordinary things

    • @Apple-vi6yx
      @Apple-vi6yx 4 роки тому +2

      Maddie Voysey thank u mate

  • @trajan75
    @trajan75 8 років тому +113

    Dickens's genius was in bringing characters, and physical objects to life. He was not being "seductive" he was making us relive his experience and making people and places come to life. No one will ever forget Miss Havisham's wedding cake, the character of Bill Sykes, or Mr Micawber. Once you encounter the scenes and objects and characters of his novels you never forget them.

    • @johnarmstrong5866
      @johnarmstrong5866 8 років тому +3

      We take your point. But we think the word 'seductive' is important and useful (though we accept it's not familiar in this context). What we like is the idea it suggests of getting past resistance or reluctance - in a good cause, in this case. We think that charming people into a change of heart is a very good strategy.

    • @trajan75
      @trajan75 8 років тому +2

      I have no issue with your approach

    • @johnarmstrong5866
      @johnarmstrong5866 8 років тому +2

      Thanks ...

  • @edanrdmr
    @edanrdmr 3 роки тому +11

    "zor zaman geçiren insanlara ulaşırsak ancak o zaman işe yaradığımızı hissetmeye başlarız."
    bu güzel videoya da bu güzel cümle yaraşırdı.

  • @dochmbi
    @dochmbi 8 років тому +92

    Dickens is exactly like School of Life then, education and entertaining.

  • @kirstalamm6971
    @kirstalamm6971 3 роки тому +6

    His wife didn't exactly leave of her own accord--he made her leave, and he forbade his children from seeing her (their oldest son, Charles Jr., who was grown by then, defied him and went to live with her). He also apparently tried to have her committed to an asylum. He was very cruel to her. That, and the way he sent several of his sons abroad when they racked up debt, is what I find hardest to reconcile with my great admiration for Dickens.
    It's tempting to soften these unpleasant aspects of his character and life, but I think it's better to deal with them honestly, head-on, because it helps us understand not just the complexity and frailties of human nature generally (even, or perhaps especially, in great artists), but the influences--formative and damaging alike--of Dickens' culture and time. Victorian England was a rigid, sexist, and oppressive society which didn't allow people to get out of unhappy marriages. He was shaped, warped, and trapped by it.
    I think that he was a passionate and sentimental person, and he sought inspiration in a great romance, and probably unintentionally sacrificed his family. Many unhappily married people are conflicted by their desire for self-fulfillment and their equally important need for a stable, happy home life. I imagine he tried justifying his choices to himself brilliantly (hence his determination to have his wife declared insane). Even geniuses can have blind spots when it comes to themselves.
    Evidently he was a warm, loving father when his children were little. As for why he was so hard on them when they grew up, it was probably for complex reasons. He probably did not grasp the impact his separation from their mother had on them, for one thing. It may also be that his keen perceptions and abilities were forged by his early struggles, while his children, with their comparatively easy upbringing, lacked the fire to hone their own gifts and talents to such a degree, which disappointed him. It's a sad, strange thing that parents usually view their children as extensions of themselves, in a way, which can cause them to be harder on them than they would be even on strangers. Dickens seems to have been almost punishing with himself when it came to working towards his goals, so it wouldn't be surprising if he expected the same of his children, or if they couldn't meet his high expectations. Still, there's no doubt that Dickens had a strong sense of compassion and love for humankind, whatever his tragic faults as a father and husband.

    • @tracesprite6078
      @tracesprite6078 2 роки тому

      I liked your insightful and caring analysis.

  • @ash3671
    @ash3671 3 роки тому +2

    Anyone else thought this was funny-

  • @mikaelritvos9910
    @mikaelritvos9910 8 років тому +8

    On the very day I sent in my article on Charles Dickens, this wonderful video was published. I can confirm, the facts are correct and message is exact! Great job School of Life. Too bad I didn't have time to get all these aspects into my paper

  • @charliedrosario999
    @charliedrosario999 3 роки тому +7

    This was my first documentary of yours I ever watched. I watch it nostalgically now.

  • @andrejansen3281
    @andrejansen3281 8 років тому +8

    This is the first TSOL literature vid I have watched. It was good, thanks. I watched it because I enjoyed reading A Tale of Two Cities. But now I get it - why he wrote. But it got me thinking - these old books aren't exactly gobbled up by today's masses. Today's media? I think that the 'moral' of many stories may be interpreted reductivistically as 'fight The Man!', and that's when people are even interested. Remember the movie, Elysium? To me, it's supposed to mirror our world's unequal access to healthcare, and the dehumanizing struggles faced by the exploited poor. But people didn't talk about that... I guess it's harder to put yourself into Matt Damon's character's shoes, than his exoskeleton, no?

  • @MarietaDimitrovaD
    @MarietaDimitrovaD 2 роки тому +17

    It really made me sad that this person was so great and dedicated in his work but at the same time at the expense of terrible relations with his wife and 10 children…it’s just so freaking sad. You can never have it all, can you?

  • @ObscuredByCloud
    @ObscuredByCloud 4 роки тому +4

    Cool Dickens fact:
    Dude went out late in the night to drop his writings into the postbox cause he was embarrassed.
    He only gained confidence when an editor wrote back, that while it won't be published he enjoyed reading it.

  • @raphaelhill586
    @raphaelhill586 8 років тому +73

    Would you consider doing an analysis of Haruki Murikami? It would be nice to look at some more contemporary and Asiatic authors

    • @roccoanthony8930
      @roccoanthony8930 4 роки тому +4

      James Seals you’re a fucking dumbass than lol

    • @alexandrawhitfield1551
      @alexandrawhitfield1551 4 роки тому +2

      *Haruki Murakami* kind of embarrassing if you are truly fascinated by the author yet cannot even spell his name correctly.

    • @groovi35
      @groovi35 4 роки тому

      Daddy's Waifu who gives a shit

    • @alexandrawhitfield1551
      @alexandrawhitfield1551 4 роки тому

      @@rakkborn467 oh fuch!! 1 letter away from being a dicchead, mate!

    • @alexandrawhitfield1551
      @alexandrawhitfield1551 4 роки тому +1

      @@rakkborn467 how ignorant and foolish of you, it might be a spelling mistake in hiragana English translation, but the correct respondence in Japanese kanji will be completely different and in this case incorrect! that's why 1 letter matters! mate!

  • @sisterashleysmith152
    @sisterashleysmith152 4 роки тому +1

    I love this video and would like to show it to my class but I cannot because of the topless painting at 5:54. I realize this is part of education but I can't show to high school students! Not trying to start something, it's just a fact I am not allowed to show this. Please remove that and keep anything like that out of your amazing videos so I can show to high school students!

  • @joaovitor42411
    @joaovitor42411 3 роки тому +15

    I'm reading a Charles Dickens' book for the first time and watching this video was really impressive. The strategy he adopted seems very powerful. Maybe we need more of this general awareness and less ready solutions at some level.

  • @onewhoseeks17
    @onewhoseeks17 8 років тому +6

    Oh god another sjw. Why can't we learn about the great writers that thought helping people was bad and that being a self-absorbed individual was good?

    • @onewhoseeks17
      @onewhoseeks17 8 років тому

      I was being sarcastic. And yea i guess she would fill that description

    • @BigHenFor
      @BigHenFor 8 років тому +1

      +Chiquita_ Rosita Fashionable - not great

  • @JimJWalker
    @JimJWalker 8 років тому +8

    Great job. Read Dickens as a teenager and always will admire him, I aspire to do in music what he did in literature.

  • @irwingforbes6857
    @irwingforbes6857 8 років тому +1

    Not a single black figure on any of the school of life videos

  • @keepsmilingboy
    @keepsmilingboy 8 років тому +96

    This part of the channel is kinda like crash course but more in depth

    • @frankm.2850
      @frankm.2850 8 років тому

      I wouldn't be surprised if the Green brothers were at least a bit inspired by tSoL. At least, I like to think so.

    • @mallid.1508
      @mallid.1508 6 років тому

      Davie Donna how

  • @royhatts1
    @royhatts1 8 років тому +13

    Slipped in some "refugee" propaganda I see...

    • @almamater489
      @almamater489 6 років тому +3

      royhatts1 They shame the name of this great writer for their own degenerate agenda

  • @brucejackson6451
    @brucejackson6451 2 роки тому +18

    Fantastic explanation of Dickens' appeal and what he was trying to do as a novelist.

  • @honeybee3579
    @honeybee3579 2 роки тому +4

    He did an amazing job. He challenged everything that was going on at the time in terms of injustice. Stories about children and orphans always touch my heart

  • @nic4ever296
    @nic4ever296 7 років тому +11

    Lovely review. Charles Dickens and Jane Austen are probably my favorite authors of all time. Both had similar goals of doing thier part to improve the world. Both died too young.

  • @Abraxas948
    @Abraxas948 8 років тому +47

    Nice job on making a video with no spoilers. You guys should do a video on Hermann Hesse

  • @fatimazahra4109
    @fatimazahra4109 5 років тому +1

    Mr. Charles Dickens was& is still the most intelligent, human& prolific gifted writer of the English literature , with his command of the language, his rich vocabulary& meanings, his linguistic richness, page after page ; he immerses you in the heart of stories , mostly based on real life& its hardships that himself endured as a child labourer.Although some plays attempt to portrait some of his writings, they do him little justice .There is nothing lime plunging yourself into one Charles( should be called; SIR C.DICKENS) , books on a train journey& be transported into his period! To me, IBN KHALDOUN , The Father of Arabic Literature ,& Charles Dickens master pieces are amongst the top literary giants of all times🌹

  • @HavidVideos
    @HavidVideos 8 років тому +11

    Never really was a huge fan of his stories but now I know more of him, I'm extremely intereted in him! I really appreciate what he did with literature and I think it's very inspiring.

    • @tracesprite6078
      @tracesprite6078 2 роки тому

      I love the films and TV series that have been made of Dickens' books.

  • @jamesosborne8945
    @jamesosborne8945 4 роки тому +5

    One of my Favourite writers. This guy has such wit within his books. Such amazing stuff! I could read Dickens Novels endlessly if not for the need to eat and sleep. haaha!

  • @pancrazion9988
    @pancrazion9988 8 років тому +4

    Great video. Out of curiosity, since you examine people from various art forms (painting, literature etc.) would you ever consider covering cinematic greats like Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Andrei Tarkovsky and so on?

    • @amused6415
      @amused6415 8 років тому

      Krzysztof Kieslowski...

  • @bimetsherojne233
    @bimetsherojne233 8 років тому +7

    when talking about Dickens i felt like Alan de Botton was talking a bit about him self as a writer that when you devote you self to work it is difficult to give the same to family. it is helping us a lot realise that we cant do very well 2 things and be a bit more compassionate on our selves. thank you

  • @roidroid
    @roidroid 8 років тому +16

    Woa woa, this video is about a historical *Social Justice Warrior*, doesn't the internet automatically down-vote any video on such topics?
    This video has almost no downvotes, this is fantastic! What is happening

    • @somegreybloke
      @somegreybloke 8 років тому +8

      The mob leaders haven't found it yet.

    • @FujibearGames
      @FujibearGames 8 років тому +22

      That's because he wasn't a social justice warrior of third wave feminism, and unlike them, he *actually did something* to help people consider the problems of society, rather than people of today that think they're helping when they reblog a tumblr post and whine on the internet until someone lobbies the government for petty things.

    • @TheLetsRead
      @TheLetsRead 8 років тому +11

      +FujibearGames They found it.

    • @BigHenFor
      @BigHenFor 8 років тому +1

      +FujibearGames Really?

    • @BigHenFor
      @BigHenFor 8 років тому +11

      +FujibearGames Dickens didnt always help people. He focussed on being materially successful, and failed at being emotionally functional. Look at his own family life - didn't help his wife or children much, and then had a midlife crisis to boot. Embrace the art, not the artist.

  • @mattakubodimasen10
    @mattakubodimasen10 3 роки тому +2

    Man seeing all the students getting to study this makes me kinda jelly. I like what I have to study but there's never this much information, I can't get to know the authors as people nor study the stories behind them.
    Since I don't get to study what I like Imma study it myself

  • @BiodegradableYTP
    @BiodegradableYTP 8 років тому +8

    +The School of Life I'd really love a Literature video on Hunter S. Thompson, because I believe his work is a fantastic example of the power of the written word and how literary language can be used as a weapon to strike at the corrupt. A textbook example of that old saying, "The pen is mightier than the sword" if you will.
    I hope you'll consider my suggestion. Keep up the great work. :)

  • @EnchantedxFairy
    @EnchantedxFairy 8 років тому +41

    Was looking forward to this :D
    please do one with Oscar Wilde.

    • @johnarmstrong5866
      @johnarmstrong5866 8 років тому +3

      Thanks - yes, Wilde is moving up the list of people to do.

  • @akshayrathore2882
    @akshayrathore2882 8 років тому +56

    George Orwell, please.

  • @nasirmahmood7874
    @nasirmahmood7874 3 роки тому +7

    David Copperfield authored by Charles Dickens is a masterpiece of English Literature. This novel is included in the syllabus of MA English Literature.

  • @anthonywhelan4660
    @anthonywhelan4660 5 років тому +2

    I love Charles Dickens' work. This is interesting. Beethoven, Dickens, Buddha, Lennon, Jean-Jacques Rousseau etc dead beat dads and crap husbands.

  • @Dazbog373
    @Dazbog373 8 років тому +2

    As a child, I like reading books but cartoons always took precedence. Until I started reading Great Expectations at twelve and my life was changed.

  • @DetectivePoofPoof
    @DetectivePoofPoof 8 років тому +7

    WOW this was one of my favorite videos yet! Great job!

  • @cloedoso3724
    @cloedoso3724 8 років тому +11

    Could you compare Dickens' ideology regarding how writing can implement great change into play vs Wilde's belief of 'art should exist for art's sake'.

    • @johnarmstrong5866
      @johnarmstrong5866 8 років тому +13

      It's a great question. As we see it, the idea of 'art for art's sake' is confusing. It says (in effect) art/writing is very important, but we can't say anything abut how it might help you live your life or address any of the issues you care about. Wilde himself seemed to think that art or writing was important and that it could and should have a beneficial impact on our lives. So the difference seems to be around how willing someone is to spell out what the benefits are.

    • @ishmaelforester9825
      @ishmaelforester9825 7 років тому +1

      Charles Dickens didn't really have an ideology (apart from a sort of happy, humble Christianity) but he would not have understood the concept, 'art for art's sake.' He would have scoffed at such a notion as silly and meaningless, like most of the truly great artists of history. Dickens apparently took it for granted that writing could effect great change in the world, like it was the most obvious thing in the world, and really it is. Anyway he was proven right insofar as he is arguably one of the most important inspiring forces of change in English history.

  • @WiseQuotesLS
    @WiseQuotesLS 2 роки тому +1

    “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.„
    _Charles Dickens

  • @Just2Ddude
    @Just2Ddude 7 років тому +3

    Brilliant video. Saved me at school, when I didn't know what to write about. Thank you!

  • @chazlikescats87
    @chazlikescats87 3 роки тому +3

    anyone here for english homework?

  • @maxstirner8717
    @maxstirner8717 8 років тому +19

    How about a video on Samuel Clemens?

    • @gregmiller9710
      @gregmiller9710 8 років тому

      ..Clements....another missouri man...yeah that would be a good 1...

    • @maxstirner8717
      @maxstirner8717 8 років тому

      Greg Miller
      Clemens, no t.

    • @ethansnyder8779
      @ethansnyder8779 8 років тому

      Humor to show our laughable flaws as the main theme?

    • @gregmiller9710
      @gregmiller9710 8 років тому

      Max Stirner well i'll be damned...i stand corrected.. or i may remain seated...

    • @maxstirner8717
      @maxstirner8717 8 років тому +1

      Squid Larry
      Maybe?

  • @moeinkasraei2114
    @moeinkasraei2114 4 роки тому +1

    تواناترین نویسنده دوران ویکتوریا ،پل رسیدن به لیبرالیسم

  • @zawwadhamim836
    @zawwadhamim836 2 роки тому +1

    I'm having a great crisis. I was thinking why should i write.

  • @CanisLupusSteparium
    @CanisLupusSteparium 8 років тому +8

    Have you guys considered doing a video about Jürgen Habermas?

  • @ray0chama
    @ray0chama 8 років тому +5

    I've always enjoyed Dickens's work, not only for his beautiful use of language and imagery, but also for his colorful characters and use of art as a means for change. So really for all the reasons he's famous, I suppose. Excellent video.
    I was wondering if you guys might do one on T. S. Eliot? Although he is famous, he seems criminally under represented contemporarily, at least in more casual circles. Probably to do with fact that he's a poet. He is my favorite poet, so I'm probably biased. But it would be nice to see your take on his work.
    Your videos are always informative and smart, yet nicely concise. Thank you for your work.

  • @joannassienkiewicz1997
    @joannassienkiewicz1997 6 років тому +32

    The man who invented Christmas

    • @lawmaker22
      @lawmaker22 5 років тому +2

      I think that was Catholic Church;) ..... But ok, dickens did add some stuff to the spirit of modern day christmas for sure

    • @GoodVideos4
      @GoodVideos4 4 роки тому +1

      Or, could say the man who invented the Christmas spirit (of peace, goodwill and understanding).

  • @GaragebornGrey
    @GaragebornGrey 8 років тому +5

    We need a video on Byron or Keats. I know you've covered a lot on romanticism before, but there's more to them than that.

  • @kramex81
    @kramex81 Рік тому +1

    Es hilft nichts, sich die Vergangenheit zurückzurufen, wenn sie nicht einigen Einfluß auf die Gegenwart ausübt.
    Zitat
    Charles Dickens

  • @TheWilliametal
    @TheWilliametal 5 років тому +1

    I rarely make any comments on videos I use to watch here, but you really grasped the heart of animated content and teaching on Dickens. Thank you very much for the mesmarizing elucidations!

  • @candela5269
    @candela5269 6 років тому +1

    could you do a Flannery O' Connor one? Or one on Oscar Wilde? btw i love these literature videos, this one especially has helped me with my presentation so thanks a lot!!

  • @dadjokeschannel
    @dadjokeschannel 2 роки тому

    What does Charles Dickens keep in his spice rack?
    The best of thymes, the worst of thymes.

  • @southernbiscuits1275
    @southernbiscuits1275 5 років тому +1

    I just got through reading for the third time, David Copperfield. Dickens is one of my favorite novelists. This video encapsulates how I feel about him as a man and as a writer. He left an amazing legacy that speaks to us even so many years later. This video should be required viewing for anyone who does not like his books. Not liking probably means not understanding.

  • @luka_ralho
    @luka_ralho 5 років тому +1

    Appears in Assassins Creed Syndicate

  • @PETERLIGHT1000
    @PETERLIGHT1000 8 років тому +6

    "Fernando Pessoa" would be a very good LITERATURE candidate

  • @Dani-vb1eh
    @Dani-vb1eh 7 років тому +4

    mark Twain?

  • @pradeepacharya5943
    @pradeepacharya5943 3 роки тому +1

    Very informative video of one of the best selling novelists of 19th century.

  • @OMIMreacts
    @OMIMreacts 8 років тому +1

    I am so grateful for you guys at TSoL doing such good work for such a long time!

  • @zenapplejones
    @zenapplejones 8 років тому +8

    When you get to George Orwell i believe his son said he had a conflict with the Poor - please explain.

    • @Silvertestrun
      @Silvertestrun 8 років тому

      speaking of Orwell. He might have been disappointed at Alain's "not-un" formation at the end.

    • @sedditguy1836
      @sedditguy1836 8 років тому

      What are Alain's "not-un" formations ?

    • @zenapplejones
      @zenapplejones 8 років тому

      I'm not a Political Science Major -Just a Techie - This site may help - news.bitofnews.com/george-orwell-seven-ways-politicians-deceive-you/

    • @nicanornunez9787
      @nicanornunez9787 8 років тому

      He wasn that kind of man. there is a bbc documentary un youtibe about him. you should ser it.

  • @Jayy_ry
    @Jayy_ry 4 роки тому +1

    И я..должен выучить это. О, Сатана дай мне сил. т~т

  • @andrew9573
    @andrew9573 3 місяці тому

    Excellent video; thanks for telling the biography and aspects of the life and literary production of one of the most significant writers of our history as humans.

  • @ata4007
    @ata4007 8 років тому +1

    great video how about doing one on umberto eko or maybe misha selimovich?

  • @countrysister700
    @countrysister700 Місяць тому

    The wounded, genius Dickens could only truly live and relate to the world in his mind and writings with strangely little interest or pity for the very real needs standing before him.

  • @aspaceship1033
    @aspaceship1033 4 роки тому

    To be very honest, indeed Dickens had good subjects to write about, but his writings were incredibly boring, and a very unlikeable way of writing. - in my opinion -

  • @GoodVideos4
    @GoodVideos4 4 роки тому

    Good video, good animations. Just a pity it didn't mention all the Dickens books it was referring to, for instance in which one is that man who made his house look like a castle?

  • @ThePayola123
    @ThePayola123 7 років тому +2

    Literature or Literary Torture?
    The man was paid by the word and he stretched his novels way beyond what is necessary.
    I'd luv me some Darles Chickens,
    but I'd much prefer to lay me own literary eggs.!!!! 🐔 or the 🍳

  • @kotymcneal8589
    @kotymcneal8589 8 років тому +6

    It would be great to see a video on David Foster Wallace.

  • @fatjoe0034
    @fatjoe0034 Рік тому +1

    Charles Dickens is a Light Legend

  • @xexious2
    @xexious2 8 років тому

    maybe dickens would have been a better father had he not have 10 CHILDREN! I have never understood the idea of having more than 2 kids.

  • @stinkleaf
    @stinkleaf 7 років тому +10

    10 children! I can't imagine how he focused with that much going on! I only have one child and it's hard as hell to balance.

  • @detectivethinker3637
    @detectivethinker3637 4 роки тому

    I wonder if any ENGLISHMAN has disliked this video, or are they foreigners?

  • @JeremyLasley
    @JeremyLasley 15 днів тому

    Leo Tolstoy said that Charles Dickens was the greatest novelist of all time. Consider that.

  • @lucindaarnoldinio5669
    @lucindaarnoldinio5669 3 роки тому +1

    Who else is here from school? :)

  • @kalown2275
    @kalown2275 8 років тому +15

    Charles Dickens: Great-great-great-grandfather to Viserys Targaryen

    • @georgeianta2088
      @georgeianta2088 8 років тому +1

      I thought that was Daeron II... oh, I see.

    • @angelinaduganNy
      @angelinaduganNy 8 років тому +1

      Well....Charles Dickens is my Great Great Great Uncle.

    • @angelinaduganNy
      @angelinaduganNy 8 років тому +1

      Seriously....

    • @LSFilms
      @LSFilms 8 років тому

      K

    • @GoodVideos4
      @GoodVideos4 4 роки тому

      @@angelinaduganNy He is one of my great grandfathers also.

  • @moshefabrikant1
    @moshefabrikant1 3 роки тому

    3:33
    Remember your suffering
    5:05
    Have a sense of urgency

  • @AllHaiLKINGTIsHeRe3
    @AllHaiLKINGTIsHeRe3 4 роки тому

    I had my own brush with that sense that others don't care, or should care more, about people suffering. For most of my life I was one of those people who felt sympathy for others, but I also knew even at the time, that I was disconnected from their experience, and I knew that it was just natural to be that way when you're not the one suffering. But when I went through opiate withdrawal of all things, I started feeling so much sympathy for everyone. I also got this real sense that nobody cared about me, and that they don't care about those suffering. Of course there wasn't anything I expected them to do for me, but just watching TV, seeing people going on with their lives, seeing other around me continue having fun in any capacity, drove home just how disconnected we all are. I wasn't mad at those people, but it just made me realize, and oddly enough, when I was suffering, I felt intimately connected to the suffering of others (perhaps incorrectly). When I started feeling better, the feeling left but I've never really forgotten it and the helplessness I felt at that time. I don't know if it's made me happier or sadder in general. I'd probably say sadder, but it was an interesting emotional lesson about something that I already knew intellectually.

  • @windstorm1000
    @windstorm1000 5 років тому

    As a commentator noted brilliantly elsewhere, Dickens was able to heal the trauma of his childhood and make it great in his art- but failed to do so in his personal life. Such is the paradox of many great creative artists: Wolfe Hemingway. Salinger. Fitzgerald. Capote. A self destructive/harmful element. They were unable to do it all. Or unwilling.

  • @gregmiller9710
    @gregmiller9710 8 років тому

    ..Gads Hill missouri, outside of my hometown named for the visit from Charles Dickens..he wasn't very impressed with the american way of doing things @ the time...

  • @angelacooper2661
    @angelacooper2661 3 роки тому

    I have a connection with Charles Dickens that few people possess - I was born EXACTLY a hundred years after his death! This video erroneously gives his death date as 8 June - it was the following day, which is my birthday!

  • @theGhoulman
    @theGhoulman 8 років тому

    I wish I could remember the origin and quote, but it's Dickens who first inspired the cynical refrain; "literature for liberals".
    As much as this vid tells us, correctly, how Dickens used his immense talent to show the real world to the high classes, never forget the snide inclination of the high classes to dismiss it.

  • @mohammedibrahim42
    @mohammedibrahim42 2 роки тому

    Charles dickens is my favorite writer he was genius by all mean 🇬🇧🇦🇺, we continue to read Charles dickens because he still speaks to our concerns, anxieties and, emotions 😊

  • @Tatiana_Palii
    @Tatiana_Palii 8 років тому

    Lewis Carroll! Twice! Thank you so much, I'm his big fan, and I hope you have something interesting to say about him too :)

  • @NoorNoor-mf6sm
    @NoorNoor-mf6sm 7 років тому +2

    amazing writer

  • @doctorstrangesupreme8617
    @doctorstrangesupreme8617 7 років тому +15

    Can you do one of Bram Stoker?

  • @lorenzoviti8275
    @lorenzoviti8275 3 роки тому +1

    I'm here because my English teacher

  • @comedygold6249
    @comedygold6249 4 роки тому

    I quite liked this video and was inspired to make a school project about the theme, after countless hours, now that i finished the project with spectacular failure, i feel like i genuinely hate everything related to dickens, i guess one should genuinely feel passion about the topic if one is basing their project off of it

  • @nicolasceronm.1678
    @nicolasceronm.1678 8 років тому

    Please make a video on Gabriel García Marquez, one of Latin America's most prolific authors.

  • @ChairMaoZi
    @ChairMaoZi 8 років тому

    Why no mention of Dickens reffering to Faigan as 'the Jew' in Oliver Twist - over 200 times in fact.

    • @johnarmstrong5866
      @johnarmstrong5866 8 років тому

      That's a good point. We omitted it because we set ourselves the task of trying to explain what is currently valuable about Dickens and his work. (But we do accept that he was horrible in certain ways.)

  • @someguyfromanotherplanet5284
    @someguyfromanotherplanet5284 4 роки тому

    I have a nice suggestion. Why don't you do one on South American and African literature sir? It would be nice.

  • @blckfox2415
    @blckfox2415 Рік тому +1

    Who else here cause of school project

  • @1qwasz12
    @1qwasz12 5 років тому

    While I agree that Dickens was a great and strident activist in social reform, I believe that his faith in Christ made the deepest impact in his latter works.

  • @fatimamohammed6365
    @fatimamohammed6365 3 роки тому

    I'm writing my graduation project and it's about him. This video is very helpful, thank you.

  • @kek8717
    @kek8717 8 років тому

    Once my brother was reading a book and I asked him who wrote it. He said it was by Charles Dickens. I said "what a dick"