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Karanlık Viktorya Döneminde Dickens'ın Mumları: Christmas Books eserindeki Ortak Semboller

Year 2019, Issue: 1, 9 - 21, 30.04.2019

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, karanlık Viktorya döneminde Noel ruhunu yeniden
canlandıran Charles Dickens’ın Christmas
Books
eserindeki ortak sembolleri biçemsel olarak incelemektir. Dickens
dönemi insanları, karanlık bir dünyada, Endüstri Devriminin derin etkilerini
yaşarken, endüstrileşme, yoksulluk, sınıf ayrımı ve değişen değerlerin
sonuçlarından müzdariptiler. Duyarlılığı insan doğası ile birleştiren Dickens,
Noel hikâyelerinde, İngiliz yaşamında unutulup giden bir kutlamayı yeniden
canlandırmıştır. Karanlık Viktorya dönemi ile harmanlanan bu Noel ruhu ile
Dickens, okuyucularına arzulanan daha iyi bir gelecek resmetmiştir. Dickens’ın üslubu,
aile uyumu, bağışlama, yardımseverlik, mutluluk, merhamet ve Noel neşesi
konuları ile okuyucusunu eğlendirirken, toplumdaki uyuşmazlıkları ve insanlığın
hatalarını sorgulama ve yargılamayı sağlar. Ancak, derin yapıda, mesajlarını
açık bir şekilde vermek yerine, Charles Dickens, beş Noel hikâyesindeki sembol
kullanımı ile okuyucularını vermek istediği mesaja yönlendirir. Bu amaç
doğrultusunda, bu çalışma Dickens’ın, Christmas
Books
eserindeki hikâyeleri aracılığıyla, karanlık Viktorya döneminde hapsolmuş
okuyucuları için bir mum yaktığını gösteren ortak sembolleri açıklamayı
amaçlar.  

References

  • ACKROYD, P. (2002), Dickens. London: Vintage Books.
  • ___________ (1990), Dickens: A Biography. London: Sinclair- Stevenson.
  • CHURCHILL, R. C. (1982), From Dickens to Hardy. (Ed.) Borris Ford. Penguin Books.
  • COLLINS, P. (1964), Dickens and Education. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
  • DICKENS, C. (1995), Christmas Books. Wordsworth Classics.
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  • HIBBERT, C. (1967), The Making of Charles Dickens. Suffolk: The Chaucer Press.
  • LALUMIA, C. (2001), Scrooge and Albert: Christmas in the 1840s, History Today 51 (12), 23-29.

Candles of Dickens in the Darkness of Victorian Era: Common Symbols in Christmas Books

Year 2019, Issue: 1, 9 - 21, 30.04.2019

Abstract

The
aim of this study is to stylistically analyze the common symbols in Charles
Dickens’s Christmas Books, which
revived the Christmas spirit in the dark Victorian era. Experiencing the vast
impacts of Industrial Revolution, people in Dickens’s time were suffering from
the consequences of industrialism, poverty, class distinctions and shifting
values within a dark world. Upon combining sentimentality towards human nature,
Dickens, in his Christmas stories, revived a festival which faded away from
English life during the 19th c. Through this blending of a Christmas spirit in
the dark Victorian era, Dickens drew the desired picture of a better future for
his readers. His ‘Dickensian’ style enables questioning and judging the
discrepancies in the society and the defects of humanity while entertaining the
reader with the concerns of family harmony, forgiveness, charity, happiness,
compassion and Christmas joy. Yet instead of presenting his messages explicitly,
in the deeper structure, Charles Dickens directs his readers through the
messages with the use of symbols in his five Christmas stories. To this end,
this study aims at clarifying the common symbols in the stories of Christmas Books to suggest that Dickens
lights a candle via his stories for his readers who were imprisoned in the dark
Victorian age.
 

References

  • ACKROYD, P. (2002), Dickens. London: Vintage Books.
  • ___________ (1990), Dickens: A Biography. London: Sinclair- Stevenson.
  • CHURCHILL, R. C. (1982), From Dickens to Hardy. (Ed.) Borris Ford. Penguin Books.
  • COLLINS, P. (1964), Dickens and Education. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
  • DICKENS, C. (1995), Christmas Books. Wordsworth Classics.
  • GITTER, E. (1999), The Blind Daughter in Charles Dickens’s ‘Cricket on the Heart’, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 39 (4), 675-689. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/1556268.
  • GLANCY, R. (1980), Dickens and Christmas: His Framed-Tale Themes, Nineteenth Century Fiction 35 (1), 53-72.
  • HIBBERT, C. (1967), The Making of Charles Dickens. Suffolk: The Chaucer Press.
  • LALUMIA, C. (2001), Scrooge and Albert: Christmas in the 1840s, History Today 51 (12), 23-29.
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Articles
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Senem Üstün Kaya 0000-0001-6537-9769

Publication Date April 30, 2019
Submission Date January 8, 2019
Acceptance Date February 4, 2019
Published in Issue Year 2019 Issue: 1

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ISNAD Üstün Kaya, Senem. “Candles of Dickens in the Darkness of Victorian Era: Common Symbols in Christmas Books”. Mevzu – Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 1 (April 2019), 9-21.

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