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How has Dickens impacted culture today? We don't know about you, but we watch A Muppet's Christmas Carol every year, so...that's probably the answer, right?
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Thank you We sneak Charles dickins How has dickins impacted
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culture today Alas shmoop One of the reasons that dickens
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has had such longevity is that his novels are so
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adaptable to just about every form of media that we
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have in the twentieth and twenty first century So oliver
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as a stage adaptation teo oliver twist There are so
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many movie versions of things like the christmas carol and
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david copperfield and you know you name it that's endless
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The bbc has certainly taken care about television Many dramas
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and things adaptations have been made certainly things like all
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of our khun b reenacted by students And i know
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lots of teachers who have turned even just seems from
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dickens novels into many reenactments and classrooms And again it's
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important to remember the reason that's so easy to do
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is because these novels came out in pieces So if
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you're reading two chapters in time those sets of pages
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sixty some odd pages are very encapsulated They can often
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stand alone as almost like a mini story within within
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the greater novel So this is one of the reasons
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why it's so easy to to make episodes out of
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the novel so that has absolutely been endless And then
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i think my favorite Adaptation which might be everyone's favorite
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adaptation is the muppets christmas carols I think that christmas
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carol is probably the best example of this kind of
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adaptation not just because that was a novella that it
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was shorter and therefore easier to turn into a movie
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but also because that had such enormous cultural impact It
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is impossible I think for at least americans to even
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imagine what christmas would look like or should look like
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if that noble had been written So much of what
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we do in terms of our traditions goes back to
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the korean period and often specifically goes back to dickens
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Depiction in that novella So the reason we take so
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well to that is because we just sort of gobbled
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up dick in silk line and sinker Andi don't realize
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it And so when you think of fur lined coats
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and we think of reeds and all that stuff that
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is that is dickensian Much of that is victorious How
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have dickins work's been adapted in different media What holiday
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to dickens Heavily influence I heard kermit the frog had 00:02:23.748 --> [endTime] to audition four times
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