Nicolas Nickleby
(Charles Dicken)
Charles Dickens? Nicholas NicklebyDickens wrote during the height of the industrial revolution, when factories and mines hired children because their hands and bodies were small and they could do detailed work or fit in tiny places more easily than adults. When children?s hands were chopped off by machinery, factory bosses said it was the children?s fault for carelessness. Boarding schools were frequently simply stages on which frustrated adults could strike out physically, emotionally and psychologically at children under their so-called care. Nicholas Nickleby contains one of Dickens? most vivid characters, headmaster Wackford Squeers. Along with Nicholas? unethical uncle, Ralph, the title character goes through the usual heartaches we expect in Dickens, befriends a retarded orphan who had been abandoned at the boarding school, and comes out safe and sound at the end-we also expect that in Dickens. In Great Expectations, the main character rises in society through writing; in Nicholas Nickleby, through drama.
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