A Study on the Fairy Tale Colour of Characters  in Dickens’s Hard Times Abstract Charles Dickens is one of the most influential novelists in the Victorian era and enjoys great fame and popularity among fellow writers and readers。 Honored as the “summit of British fiction,” he has created a lot of great novels and extremely rich lifelike characters。 Works of Dickens, who is a representative of critical realism, are considered to be serious, whereas some scholars have perceived the romantic fairy tale colour in his works。 This paper deals with the fairy tale colour of characterization in Dickens’s later work Hard Times, aiming to explore the reason for his inner fairy-tale world in this realistic work of pessimistic literary period。 To achieve this purpose, the author analyzes it from five parts。 The first part is the Introduction, which mainly introduces Dickens and the literature review。 The second part explores briefly the connotation and distinctive elements of the fairy tale, and its connection with the critical realism writer Dickens。 The third part includes two chapters。 Chapter one makes an analysis from the perspective of characters’ image, and some characters symbolize typical fairy-tale characterizations。 Chapter two mainly explores the fairy-tale fate of characters, for the frequent appearance of marvelous coincidence that leads the characters to have a fairy-tale ending。 The fourth part explores what results in Dicken’s fairy tale complex。 The last part is conclusion。 The fairy tale colour of characters in Hard Times does not mean a failure in this serious work, but to a degree enhances its satire。 Through analysis, this paper will open up a new way for readers to interpret Charles Dickens, finding the romantic fairy tale complex in his inner heart。76273

Keywords: fairy tale; Hard Times; Charles Dickens; characters; fantasy

浅析狄更斯《艰难时世》中人物的童话色彩

摘  要狄更斯是英国维多利亚时代最有影响力的小说家之一，在后代的读者中极受欢迎并且享有盛名。他创作了许多优秀的经典小说，这些小说中的角色都栩栩如生，被誉为英国小说的巅峰。作为批判现实zhuyi的代表人，狄更斯的作品通常被认为是严肃的批判现实之作，但也有不少学者认为他的作品带有浪漫的童话色彩。本论文主要是探讨狄更斯后期作品《艰难时世》中人物身上的童话色彩，希望从他文学生涯中较为阴暗时期的作品中找到他内心蕴含童话世界的原因。本论文共分为五部分。第一部分为引言，介绍该狄更斯和本小说的相关背景以及文献综述。第二部分探讨童话的定义和特征，并简述狄更斯这位批判现实zhuyi代表作家在浪漫的童话之间的关联。第三部分包括两章。第一章分析《艰难时世》中人物的形象特点来探讨这部小说在人物形象设置方面借鉴了一定的童话角色。第二章主要从人物命运角度出发，人物循着超现实的巧合发展，最终走向善恶有报的童话式结局。第四部分从狄更斯个人需求与时代需要两方面简述了狄更斯小说中童话情结的诱因。最后一部分是结论。在《艰难时世》这部严肃作品中赋予童话色彩，并不会减少其魅力，反而加深了其批判性。通过本文分析，读者将会从一个全新的角度认识狄更斯，发现他内心浪漫的童话情结。

毕业论文关键词：童话；艰难时世；查理斯·狄更斯；人物；幻想

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

1。1 General Introduction of Dickens 1

1。2 Literature Review 2

1。3 Significance of the Thesis 3

2。 Charles Dickens and the Fairy Tale