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The Description of Characters in Charles Dickens’s Books
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“A characters description clearly shows the kind of life they have ledand the person they have become”
This statement suggests that in a story the description of eachcharacter gives some hints towards there past and present self. Iagree with this statement because most stories whiles describing acharacter for the first time may hint towards there past using wordplay or threw what they may be wearing or doing at that time.Although, this is not entirely true as some stories may not hinttowards anything to do with there past at all, you might say therestarting a fresh.
One author who does this a lot in his books is Charles Dickens. Inthis essay I am going to write about three different characters fromsome of his books where this has been used significantly, these are:“Captain Murderer” from The Commercial Traveller Short Stories and“Miss Havisham” and “Magwitch” from Great Expectations.
First of all is “Captain Murderer” from The Commercial Traveller ShortStories book. As soon as the story begins it starts to describe whatthe character used to be like, it says: “The first diabolicalcharacter…”, diabolical comes from the Spanish word Diablo which meansdevil, this means that he has a devil like nature about him, cruel andevil. Another suggestion of evil is that he is referred to as anoff-shot of Blue Beard the pirate, it says: “This wrench must havebeen an off-shot of Blue Beard family”, blue beard was a pirate andany typical pirate is usually evil. One obvious play on words is hisname: “Captain Murderer” suggesting he may have killed someone at onepoint in his life. It also refers to him having very sharp teeth on anumber of occasions, on time he is seen showing his teeth to a bridle,it says: “disquieting the minds of the noble bridle, company, with avery sharp show of teeth”, he is also seen by one of his brides having
