"Great Expectations" was always my favorite.
"Charles Dickens would love Occupy, another Dickens says" December 03, 2011|By Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent
SALEM - Ever alert to injustice, Charles Dickens would have been inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, his great-great-grandson said yesterday.
“He would be absolutely in there, and writing reams and reams and reams,’’ said actor Gerald Dickens, 48, who was in town to perform during this weekend’s Victorian Christmas events organized by the North of Boston branch of the Dickens Fellowship.
Charles Dickens’s intense interest in society’s inequities would have been piqued by the current economic situation, the foreclosures and unemployment and bank bailouts, Gerald said.
“The great tragedy is that, for all he wrote, nothing has changed in the slightest. We’re still exactly where we were,’’ Gerald said. “On the other side, that is why his writings are still just as popular now, because they’re just as relevant.’’
And that, to me, is a failure of the mass media of AmeriKa.
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