Charles Dickens’novel Nicholas Nickleby depicts the life track of the protagonist Nickleby from the countryside to London,and takes the boarding school in Yorkshire as a sample to reflect the cruel living conditions ...Charles Dickens’novel Nicholas Nickleby depicts the life track of the protagonist Nickleby from the countryside to London,and takes the boarding school in Yorkshire as a sample to reflect the cruel living conditions of poor children in boarding schools.This paper intends to reveal the social realities by analyzing the survival dilemma of the poor,the abuse in boarding school,the mutual assistance and resistance to the oppressed people,in order to criticize the disadvantages of implement of The Poor Law,the construction of boarding school,which contains the thought of benevolence and resistance in Dickens’s works.展开更多
基金The National Social Science Fund of China(Key project)A Study on the Poor Relief Tring in Victorian Literature(19AWW006).
文摘Charles Dickens’novel Nicholas Nickleby depicts the life track of the protagonist Nickleby from the countryside to London,and takes the boarding school in Yorkshire as a sample to reflect the cruel living conditions of poor children in boarding schools.This paper intends to reveal the social realities by analyzing the survival dilemma of the poor,the abuse in boarding school,the mutual assistance and resistance to the oppressed people,in order to criticize the disadvantages of implement of The Poor Law,the construction of boarding school,which contains the thought of benevolence and resistance in Dickens’s works.
