English Literature

Charles Dickens with no doubt was a great writer whose imagination, close observation and vivid descriptions made many readers like his literary works. Throughout this passage, Dickens depicts himself as a genius in presenting striking and detail-to-detail human situations and experiences. The Old Curiosity Shop is one among his masterpieces, it is noticeable because of the way in which he picks a life experience  death - which anyone can come across, depicts a single face picked in a crowd and follows the individual until the completion of the story. Waving them off with his hand, and calling softly to her as he went, he stole into them room. drew close together and a few whispered words  not unbroken by emotion. This phrase shows the grief of the mourning schoolmaster and the loss all have to bear with. The beauty of his writing comes in the way he packages our subconscious thinking at the scenery that is better in our mind than expressed in our talking. The vivid description of Little Nell and her personality actually marvel us as readers because of the minute details in presenting the boundless poetry of life.

Death is a topic which has been written by other numerous writers who have generalized it but with keen eyes from the third person perspective, Dickens describes the death of Little Nell bringing each aspect in its own from the unnatural and stark staring innocence to the awkward and constrained piety. This is expressed in the words seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life. The element of disbelief is quite clear of the onlookers which highlight the writers artistic expression in giving the insignificant child the personality in the story. She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell, was deed. The writers vivid descriptions are as if to repair the injustice of death that has been done to this innocent girl. She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm. (Dickens, 1863) What emerges from the description is the way in which he draws the sympathy of the readers not as pathetic but as a tragic accident which should not have happened at all.

The writer is truthful in presenting the aspects of the human body after death where he goes ahead to immortalize the realities of death. According to Dickens (1863), there is no pain, sorrow and suffering to the human body. It is also arguable in the way the writer objectifies death of Nell. It is like he is happy that she is dead, to be away from the fatigues and sufferings of this world for, according to him, she has found perfect peace and happiness in death. Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born. He points out to the traces of her sufferings, early cares, and fatigues which are all gone ironically thanks to death. I would however, strongly differ with the writer because he should be objective in Nells life rather than her death. The picture described of Nell death personality, if we can talk of it as personality, implies of Dickens mistakes in falling to his simple assumptions and literary vices. It shows his character of real objection to sorrow and his mere hunger in all manner of paying tribute to dead and in the descriptive process experimenting with his arrogance. With ease he describes and enjoys the sorrow of the bereaved tormented and haunted by their loss by showing how death mocks the efforts of sympathizers. The old man held one languid arm in his, and had the small hand tight folded to his breast, for warmth. the hand she had stretched out to him with her last smile. Through this keen observation, readers are able to sympathize with bereaved for their loss of loved ones. In the passage, two strands of meaning makes readers laugh but also tried to make them cry, sincere expression of heartfelt feelings and the deliberate sarcasm it laughing at human powerlessness in the hands of death are addressed by the writer.

Human fate cannot be controlled as the writer in this passage implies. Nell is dead and beyond the help of the mourning spectators. We cannot fail to notice how vividly the writer brings out the void left by Nells death. rooms she seemed to fill with life, even while her own was waning fast. They all had to accept that Nell is gone forever. The futility of human wishful thinking of death is mocked by the writer in the last passage for no amount of tears can bring Nell back to life. She is dead, and past all help or need of it. In the saying it is not on earth that Heavens justice ends summarizes all the human inability at the fangs of death that robe the loved ones.

In conclusion, Dickens, in sarcastic depiction of death and the sympathetic description of sorrow borne by man helps us come to terms with the inevitable and live life because there is nothing we can do to alleviate it from very existence.