The Power of the Eye and Point of View in Oliver Twist

IF 0.7 1区 文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES DICKENS QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI:10.1353/dqt.2024.a929043
Magdalena Pypeć
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This article seeks to revise the orthodox opinćions about Dickens as a "superficial" novelist who is unable to delve into the souls of his characters and depict their interiority. Since the introspective elements in Dickens are worthy of more attention than they have received, I critically dissect two passages in which Dickens dramatizes the mental operations of two criminals (Sikes and Fagin) at a moment of crisis in Oliver Twist. As I argue, the vigour and intensity of the novelist's portrayal of these characters' inwardness and mental activity draw heavily on eye imagery, its symbolic implications, and metaphors of seeing, which focuses all textual eyes together with the reader's eyes on the two malefactors. The internal focalizations of Sikes and Fagin deserve a particular critical interest because of their significant impact on the cultural afterlives of the novel, which this essay also discusses.

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奥利弗-忒斯特》中眼睛和视角的力量
摘要:本文试图修正关于狄更斯是一位 "肤浅 "的小说家,无法深入人物的灵魂并描绘其内心世界的正统观点。鉴于狄更斯作品中的内省元素值得给予更多关注,我对狄更斯在《奥利弗-忒斯特》中描写两名罪犯(赛克斯和费金)在危机时刻的心理活动的两个段落进行了批判性剖析。正如我所论证的那样,小说家对这两个人物的内在性和心理活动的描写,其力度和强度在很大程度上借助了眼睛的意象、象征意义和观看隐喻,将文本中所有的眼睛和读者的眼睛一起聚焦在这两个罪犯身上。赛克斯和费金的内心聚焦值得特别关注,因为它们对小说的文化余韵产生了重大影响,本文也将对此进行讨论。
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