Being Charles Dickens Rhetorical Analysis

Gates, David. "Being Charles Dickens." The New York Times. 3 Nov. 2011. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
This source offers information about the author from the point of view of people who actually knew him or had interviewed him. This is important because the reader gets a better insight into the life of Dickens when it is being portrayed through the eyes of someone who actually had contact with him. It also benefits the reader because it explains that the simple people in his novels are what he wanted to be in life and the villains were what he was not (or rather what he found in himself), his cruelty, his attacks of causeless enmity toward those who were helpless and looked to him with comfort, his shrieking for those whom he ought to love. Fyoder Dostoyevsky who interviewed Dickens on multiple occasions says, “… There were two people in him, he told me: one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite. From the one who feels the opposite I make my evil characters, from the one who feels as a man ought to feel, I try to live my life.”(1) Dickens is about to use his personal experiences and turn them into some of the most complex …show more content…
It also expands into how the novel revises conventional ideas of masculinity and femininity. It argues that masculinity is not threatened by made indignant or by a female’s sexual power but it thrives because of it and feels the absence of it. It’s a novel where a woman’s beauty and erotic appeal are demonstrated to be a part of her nature and where the love of a man must clearly involve an acceptance of and affirmation in the woman’s power. This source would be good for introducing feminism and how it alters Dickens