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Originally Posted by david H
Cleo, whoever told you he was a soap script writer is typical modern, taking superficial similarities for the same thing. Dickens used popular techniques but his personal abilities were so great that the comparison is ridiculous. Dickens had genius, soap writers are run of the mill scribblers who need the techniques rather than use them.
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Actually David, it was me that used the comparison. Obviously Dickens was a genius and today's soap writers will never be able to compare but when I read how he issued the stories in parts, finished on a cliffhanger and how people could not wait for the next installment, plus their reaction influenced the next installment I compared that to a soap opera. Considering there was no television at the time then I think it's a pretty good comparison, if there was television at that time then I think it would be highly likely that his work would have been acted out on a screen. For the length of his stories it was the only comparison I could think of. Can you think of another comparison?
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