Sue Perkins on Charles Dickens

[@JohnNaxos-jl5bq]

A very good analysis of one of the greatest storyteller

[@BenDay-tc9dg]

Amazing and detailed video.

[@morganlowe3353]

Dickens really really changed the world.

[@dianecostanza]

Dickensian is one of my favorite tv series. It was like watching behind the scenes of Dickens’ novels where all the characters to all his books have met at one time or other.

[@susanstreep2474]

I simply adore Sue Perkins

[@danielson95]

Bizarre that no mention of the humble naval city he was born in, my hometown Portsmouth

[@morganlowe3353]

15:12 she opens up to paperbacks. Here in the US I bought hardcovers. Hey half my friends were calling me a nerd. If you love something you buy the best? What logic, you can tell I have been brainwashed by the media to spend more money than I should. The beauty about words is they don't need to be fancy 😉

[@alancaron984]

It would be nice if original illustrations were always included. That’s not always the case.

[@BlackIDove]

Deceiving title, I thought the whole thing was going be with Sue discussing Dickens. Slightly disappointed.

[@SevenEllen]

Me too.

[@ajayjackson7727]

Me too.. At least Dickens wrote all of his novels unlike JK Rowling 😉 it was a group of writers who wrote the Harry Potter books

[@morganlowe3353]

They are. The other side of him. Everyone has discussed before the writing.

[@jackfenwick4263]

Sado

[@foxyshazaam3310]

Same

[@st.apollonius5758]

J.R. Tolkien anyone?

[@vynxxy8569]

Watching for school 🧑‍🦲

[@samuelrobinson1992]

John Connolly's Samuel Johnson novels are way better than Harry Potter, so many laugh out loud moments!! I'm an adult and I love them!

[@sianwarwick633]

Wow. Denis Lawson, he's alright. And here's Anton Lesser

[@shadowwalker7717]

Charles Dickens fill up the list of my favorites writers ever: Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and Dickens. My vote would have been for Dickens. J.K. Rowling created my most beloved series of book with Harry Potter, she created an astonishingly world of wonderful characters, a beautiful story full of beautiful magic. But Dickens' work is funnier and also more relevant than Rowling's. He talked about topics that were relevant in the victorian era, and topics that are not less relevant today.

[@lw3646]

For me there's no contest. For one Dickens was not a child's writer unlike Rowling unlike Dickens who prose is much more developed and often funnier. It's like saying Thomas Hardy v Enid Blynton. Rowling did create a great world while still borrowing the typical hero's journey structure of an ordinary perhaps unhappy young person who is in fact "the chosen one" who goes on his great journey while meeting colourful companions on the way and defeating the evil tyrant threatening the world. Dickens though created a dozen unique and powerful stories. His depiction of the cruelty of childhood in David Copperfield or Nicholas Nickleby beats anything in Harry Potter. He used his writing as a powerful vehicle for social change, pretty much defined what is now our modern Christmas traditions. His writing is so quotable too, "Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good...." 'Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19 [pounds] 19 [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20 pounds ought and six, result misery. ' "A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on ‘umbly, Master Copperfield!” "“Is this a theatre?” whispered Smike, in amazement; “I thought it was a blaze of light and finery." “Why, so it is,” replied Nicholas, hardly less surprised...." “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”

[@morganlowe3353]

Lesson here is to leave them wanting more.

[@ميرا_كيوت]

بحب سو جداً

[@wilfmurray2731]

Watching from school😐

[@prhymel]

Personally think Charles Dickens is more of a prolific literary visionary, Just based on his seniority but not only that he wrote his novels without the aid of the internet as a research tool, He wrote without a computer. Plus his literature is timeless and translates poetically in either film or play, In comparison Rowling's work is sloppy and gimmicky. You really can't compare them, Commercial success doesn't constitute talent or even cultural relevance. Take 2pac and lil wayne for instance.

[@Demun1649]

"Please sir, I want some more". And in 2023 under this Tory government, we still need this request to be achieved. The poor are getting poorer by the day, the richest are getting richer. ENGLAND has failed completely to correct social inequalities. AND IN THE MAIN, is deliberate.

[@morganlowe3353]

The thumbnail made me think you got the wrong Sue.

[@KateKatastrophe]

"Invented a new artform" samuel Richardson over here like...

[@barrelman6941]

waka waka

[@JohnNaxos-jl5bq]

To compare Dickens with Rowling is like comparing caviar with sardines,they're called classics for a reason

[@lw3646]

For me there's no contest. For one Dickens was not a child's writer unlike Rowling unlike Dickens who prose is much more developed and often funnier. It's like saying Thomas Hardy v Enid Blynton. Rowling did create a great world while still borrowing the typical hero's journey structure of an ordinary perhaps unhappy young person who is in fact "the chosen one" who goes on his great journey while meeting colourful companions on the way and defeating the evil tyrant threatening the world. Dickens though created a dozen unique and powerful stories. His depiction of the cruelty of childhood in David Copperfield or Nicholas Nickleby beats anything in Harry Potter. He used his writing as a powerful vehicle for social change, pretty much defined what is now our modern Christmas traditions. His writing is so quotable too, "Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good...." 'Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19 [pounds] 19 [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20 pounds ought and six, result misery. ' "A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on ‘umbly, Master Copperfield!” "“Is this a theatre?” whispered Smike, in amazement; “I thought it was a blaze of light and finery." “Why, so it is,” replied Nicholas, hardly less surprised...." “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” "They were ruined, when they were required to send labouring children to school; they were ruined when inspectors were appointed to look into their works; they were ruined, when such inspectors considered it doubtful whether they were quite justified in chopping people up with their machinery; they were utterly undone, when it was hinted that perhaps they need not always make quite so much smoke." "'Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism. You will find it serviceable, in the formation of a demeanour, if you sometimes say to yourself in company - on entering a room, for instance - Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism." "-I positively adore Miss Dombey;-I-I am perfectly sore with loving her;" "Ven you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worthwhile, goin' through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste..." "Kent, sir - everybody knows Kent. - apples, cherries, hops and women.'

[@st.apollonius5758]

J.R. Tnx

[@muskndusk]

And the result was....?

[@mikelheron20]

Please tell me you're joking.

[@seasidesmilertj1182]

Kirsty can have it!

[@thewkovacs316]

how could rowling transform children's literature when she borrowed and stole from greater works that came before?

[@adamantium112768]

Dickens is hard to read cause of the old English all the thee and tho's but did finish it unlike Dracula which I found so boring didn't even make it half through it makes you wonder what made it so terrifying back then

[@robinharley852]

It's simple: that was a MUCH more conservative time. We've been completely desensitized. With all the shit we're able to see (and in HiDef 3D mind you), we won't be easily shocked, obviously.

[@mikeappleget482]

@@robinharley852 Kinda like how the younger generation doesn’t think The Exorcist is scary. Back in the early 90s I saw it and was scared out of my mind for like a week and couldn’t sleep. Lol

[@cosmiclino2080]

JK Rowling ? dont make me laugh

[@GeorgiaGeorgette]

+Cosmic Lino Have you read any of her work?

[@cosmiclino2080]

***** yes and if i was a kid id have loved it 100%, my daughter thinks she is god, so she must be doing something right, however Dickens she is not, i cant quite remember the context of my comment though

[@GeorgiaGeorgette]

Cosmic Lino I don't think context was a factor; you simply made a derisive comment about her. I am thirty two years of age and only recently began reading her work and I believe wholeheartedly that it is as suited to an older audience as it is to youngsters. In fact the more recent Harry Potter books feature content which is arguably unsuitable for children. I am a fan of Dickens and I would not consider it inconceivable to describe her work as comparable.

[@cosmiclino2080]

***** well then we disagree, sorry for triggering you lol

[@GeorgiaGeorgette]

Cosmic Lino You didn't 'trigger' me; I have no animosity towards you, I just find it rather strange to scorn the world's most successful literary talent.