THE TRIAL

FOR
MURDERBy : Charles Dickens

Presented by: Gohar Bagdasariani

Lecturer: Tamar Gelashvili

Charles Dickens
• Born in England
February 7,1812
• English writer and social critic

➢ Stories were usually about

ghosts, murder, incest and
cannibalism
➢ Psychological aspect of the
supernatural
➢ Mixture of fantasy and
realism
 BACKSTORY
❖ Narrator looks out the window one morning and sees two men, one
following another.

❖ One night the second man appears through a sealed door in the
narrator’s house.

❖ Narrator is chosen to be the foreman of the jury at the trial.

❖ The accused is the first man he saw that morning.

❖ The murdered victims ghost appears as the thirteenth juror.

❖ The jury comes to the agreement and declares the man is guilty.

❖ The ghost disappears.

 Allusions

“John Derrick, my “We are thirt-; but

trusty and attached no, it’s not
servant for more than possible.No.We are
twenty years.” twelve.”

“We retired to consider,

at seven minutes before
ten at night…and finally
the Jury returned into
the Court at ten minutes
past twelve.”
took 137 minutes to come to a verdict
Extended Ghost Themes

Presence through the narrator

Only the narrator cab see

the ghost, however, when
the narrator touches
someone, then the other
person can see the ghost as
well.
“…before I was taken, he somehow got
to my bedside in the night, woke me,
and put a rope round my neck”

Was the speaker kinda hypnotized

and killed the ‘Murderer’ even
before the hearing?
Or is it something else? Moral of the story
DON’T LIE YOUR WAY OUT OF A
SITUATION BECAUSE SOON ENOUGH,
THE TRUTH WILL BE EXPOSED
THANKS FOR
ATTENTION