Charles Dickens. (1812 -1870)

Charles Dickens.
(1812-1870)

Water
a colourless, transparent, odourless, liquid which forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms; one of the four elements in ancient and medieval philosophy and in astrology (considered essential to the nature of the signs Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces):[as modifier] :a water sign .
(the water) a stretch or area of water, such as a river, sea, or lake: the lawns ran down to the water's edge.

In the world mythology water
participates in the beginning and in the end of the creation of the world;
expresses the principle of universal and perpetual motion;
is interpreted as another form of objective reality (borderline rivers Acheron, Styx, Lethe)

Water in Christian interpretation is
a form of moral cleansing of Israelites (in the Old Testament);
the image of secretive cleansing of sins and spiritual rebirth to the new pious life (in the New Testament).
* ‘To be in deep water’ means ‘to suffer’;
* troubled sea signifies a riot of the profane.

According to Gachev G.D.
The English Cosmos can be described in the language of four elements:
water,
earth,
air,
fire
and the element of water is the most important .

“Bleak House”.
Ceaseless rain in the estate of the Deadlock associates with the end of the world and the Deluge(the biblical Flood);

Fog is
a symbol of uncertainty and an emblem of the power which confuses and hides the truth from the observer;
a sign of the beyond powers in various mystical doctrines.

“Dombey and Son”.
The river
is a motion of human life, the flow of Time;
opposes the world of false values;
has the meaning of the river Lethe for Paul Dombey.

“Little Dorrit”.
The river
imports movement, freedom and life;
gets a new shade of meaning , close to the symbol of prison.

“Our Mutual Friend”.
The river is connected with ideas
life;
of the flowing of Time
of freedom
of Christian ideals: ‘requital and duty’.

“David Copperfield”.
The tempest is
a symbol of the nascent world;
a symbol of death and rebirth for Ham Peggoti;
a symbol of punishment to Steerforth.