"Hey Hannah, what are you reading?" "I'm reading a tragedy by Charles Dickens. What about you, Sarah?" "I'm reading a sonnet by Shakespeare." Being a literature lover, I spent my entire childhood reading the works of Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare, which were very different from each other, yet somehow the roads merged and they were somewhat similar. Furthermore, Dickens and Shakespeare were both English and were and still are a large part of the English literary history; however, each had a very contrasting way of writing as Charles was an author and social critic during the Victorian time, while William, the dramatist of his time, was a poet and playwright during the Elizabethan time. Therefore, I respect them very much, but the
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Born nearly 250 years apart, the two authors were products of very different historical eras, Shakespeare was born in the 16th century and Dickens was born in the 19th century. In their times, Dickens was more famous as he was able to use the mass printing technologies which Shakespeare did not have the technology during his time. Furthermore, Shakespeare had a huge impact on the world of literature, especially in Dickens, as Dickens studied him as a boy, while Dickens was so massively extrovert and he really did set out to conquer the world. They nicely worked the language, while Shakespeare was a more feminine kind of author and was much more responsive to emotional states, the language is much more lyrical than Dickens'. Additionally, Dickens was many things, but he was not really a poet, on the other hand, Shakespeare was extremely and sublimely lyrical. Moreover, both wanted to be known and wrote their works for people to like them; despite that, Shakespeare did not have any celebrity status in the same sense that Dickens did as Shakespeare was very conscious of his status and one of the situations that would make him turn quite savage was when he was taken for granted or patronized, in contrast, Dickens was a tremendously open and largely affable
Born nearly 250 years apart, the two authors were products of very different historical eras, Shakespeare was born in the 16th century and Dickens was born in the 19th century. In their times, Dickens was more famous as he was able to use the mass printing technologies which Shakespeare did not have the technology during his time. Furthermore, Shakespeare had a huge impact on the world of literature, especially in Dickens, as Dickens studied him as a boy, while Dickens was so massively extrovert and he really did set out to conquer the world. They nicely worked the language, while Shakespeare was a more feminine kind of author and was much more responsive to emotional states, the language is much more lyrical than Dickens'. Additionally, Dickens was many things, but he was not really a poet, on the other hand, Shakespeare was extremely and sublimely lyrical. Moreover, both wanted to be known and wrote their works for people to like them; despite that, Shakespeare did not have any celebrity status in the same sense that Dickens did as Shakespeare was very conscious of his status and one of the situations that would make him turn quite savage was when he was taken for granted or patronized, in contrast, Dickens was a tremendously open and largely affable