Nicholas Nickleby (DVD)

...up making dresses, and sends Nicholas to the darkness of Yorkshire, and Dotheboys Hall. This is a dingy school much as you would expect from Dickens. it's run by two grotesques, the male with a crippled eye, the woman with a crippled spirit and malicious behaviour, and the two with an inexplicable love for each other. All the manual work is done by Smike, a lame and by now broken-hearted boy who arrived at the school, and who, once his funds ran ...
...Nick Nick is very unhappy to be away from what he sees as his obligations, protecting his womenfolk and keeping a safe roof over all three of their heads. Horrified at the brutality of the routine at the school, he first forms a strong friendship with Smike, then runs away with him. Meanwhile old evil uncle is virtually prostituting the Nickleby girl, as he uses her as a sop for investors, especially one loathsome lech. It becomes clear to us, if ...

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...A brief plot outline Nicholas Nickleby is dead. (This seems to be a theme of how Dickens starts his novels!) But we are not concrned with that Nicholas Nickleby, it is his son ... young Nicholas Nickleby who is the hero of our tale. After his father's suden death leaving his family with little money the young Nicholas goes to his uncle in town for advice. As you can imagine the uncle is loaded but does not help the Nickelby's at all. He manages ...
...Hall. Now Nicholas is warned that this school is not pleasant by an old friend of his fathers but he goes none the less. When he arrives at Dotheboys he is greated by malnourished, down trodden young boys who seem closer to death than receiving a good education. In particular the young boy Smike is the Headmaster's servant boy and often beaten. As you can imagine Nicholas is there to become the boy's saviour and helps Smike to escape. He then beats ...

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