Dickens and Thackeray: Punishment and ForgivenessAttitudes toward punishment and forgiveness in English society of the nineteenth century came, for the most part, out of Christianity. In actual experience the ideal was not often met, but in the literature of the time the model was important. For novelists attempting to tell exciting and dramatic stories, violent and criminal activities played an important role, and, according to convention, had to be corrected through poetic justice or human punishment. Both Dickens' and Thackeray's novels subscribed to the ideal, but dealt with the dilemma it presented in slightly different ways. At a time when a great deal of attention has been directed toward economic production and consumption as the bases for value, Reed's well-documented study reviving moral belief as a legitimate concern for the analysis of nineteenth-century English texts is particularly illuminating. |
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... ring , the same bell that rang the night of his crime , and convulsively re - experiences his crime , tormented by the sound of the bell . “ He sank upon the ground , and grovelling down as if he would dig himself a place to hide in ...
... Ring , in the Morning Chronicle for December 26 , 1845. In these stories there are damsels shut up by ogres and princes in bright armor , " and vice is punished , and humble beauty and virtue rescued , as they always are in these kindly ...
... Ring , The ( Taylor ) , 316 Fairy tales , 470-71 Family Commentary upon the Sermon on the Mount , A ( Thornton ) , 19 Family Prayers ( Thornton ) , 19 , 32 Farrar , F. W. , 6 , 26 , 33 , 38 Fasick , Laura , 354 Fatal Boots , The ...
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Attitudes Toward Punishment and Forgiveness | 3 |
Some of the contents of this study appeared elsewhere in different form Mate | 28 |
Education | 30 |
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