Great Expectations
In Charles Dickens' Ironic masterpiece Great Expectations, it's not difficult to spot our protagonist. The opening of the novel labours...
The Wisdom of Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) was an English writer and social critic, renowned for creating some of the world's best-known fictional...
Dickens the Master Author
Dickens is an author who can make you realise what reading is for. Great Expectations was on the reading list for teenagers in their...
The Ups and Downs of Characters
If we go back to mythology and folklore, the hero of a story can have superhuman qualities and is often semi-divine in origin - in...
The Sorrowful State of the Villain
Purely virtuous heroes are hard for us to feel much affinity for. What’s interesting, though, is that as we move away from the complete...
Gluing the Reader to the Page
A working piece of fiction has to attract attention and hold it. The things that we have been accustomed to calling ‘characters’ must...
A Reading of 'The Signalman' by Charles Dickens
Apart from being a good example of an Irony -and you can read much more about Ironies in The Master Authors’ Secret Handbook and How...