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The Wheel Of Fortune

Dickens’s fascination with the possibilities of fortune (both in terms of worldly wealth and the future) with human freedom and with ethics can be seen throughout his works. One way in which he could organise his ideas about the confusion of these concepts was through the Wheel of Fortune. The Wheel of Fortune was equally a literary and a visual image, used by writers and artists to build on concepts of time, money, power and morality. Because of this, a person named Marcus Stone was therefore able to exploit the inheritance of visual images of Fortune’s Wheel to hold a dialogue with Dickens’s text about its constructions of wealth, power and moral action.
It was during the Middle Ages that the Wheel of Fortune was developed as a full-fledged image. It was usually four different type of human figures that were often attached to the wheel. These types were labelled, “regnabo” (I will rule, or will be in power), “regno” (I am in power), “regnavi” (I......


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