ミコーバーの言葉 : ディケンズの人物描写について
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Dickens' s comic characters, nearly all of them, have their own way of speaking. Mr. Micawber (David Copperfield)likes a pompous speech ; besides he has a wonderful epistolary power, which serves to maintain his "shabby-genteel" appearance. When writing a letter or a diary in general, one tends to describe one' s mind in its serious aspects-tends to expose one's own inner struggle. As for Mr. Micawber, however, it is not the case. To be sure, he seems to have some inner struggle, but there is no deep psychology or high ideology such as seen in Raskolinikov's (Dostoevski : Crime and Punishment) mind. Micawber'swords are too bombastic to express his inside in detail. Can we say the writer (Dickens) has failed in his attempt ? No. Through his pompous style, Micawber seems to turn his poverty and ignomity into something magnificient. As he meets with difficulties, he seems to become all the more alive and active. I think this is because the writer has endowed him with a creative linguistic power, and that here lies a triumph of Dickens's style.
- 宇部工業高等専門学校の論文
- 1967-03-31