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- Title: From Caricature to Character: The Intellectually Disabled in Dickens's Novels (Part Two) (Character Overview)
- Author : Dickens Quarterly
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 220 KB
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Barnaby Rudge: Erstwhile Idiot and Plot Catalyst Smike is a Dickensian idiot whose dual roles produce an unsustainable character situation, a social problematic the resolution of which requires extreme measures by the author. Barnaby Rudge is another. In Smike's case, apparently insurmountable intellectual and social debilities prevent expression of those emotional desires Dickens has allowed him to develop, creating a disconcerting portrait of unrequited affection. Smike has an idiot's intellectual powers but a normal person's sensibilities. The only "logical" course left to him, once he realizes the impossibility of successfully wooing the kind and beautiful Kate, is self-termination, a path his already weakened body obligingly effects for him. Barnaby Rudge's own stereotypical role as naive plot mechanism, like Smike's position as pitiable dependent, cannot be prolonged indefinitely either. As Dickens wishes, however, to pull this second idiot figure back into the communal fold (from which Barnaby will unwittingly take his leave mid-story), he decides to alter instead of eliminating him:
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