An Introduction.
English writer and social critic Charles Dickens composed, arguably, some of the world’s greatest pieces of fiction literature of the Victorian period. Rest assured the majority of British book worms will have found their nose firmly buried into a Dickens novel at some point of their life. At the heart of every home library, Dickens has brought comfort and joy to many households for generations. But what made Dickens’ words resonate so powerfully with the majority? Perhaps it was how vividly he articulated the stories of the everyday underdog, or the imagery used to express emotion. Coming from a home where his father lived beyond his means and was subsequently jailed for debts, Dickens himself had experienced both what it was like to have a mouth full of turkey and a belly full of gruel. Subjectively, Dickens’ most powerful passages are those that employ the use of food imagery to depict the tone of the setting in terms of emotion or prosp...