Charles Dickens Thesis Part 5

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schoolteacher Mr. M’Choakumchild. Also, Dickens names the chapter in which education is talked about “Murdering the Innocents.” The children are never read bedtime stories or can do anything involving wonder or imagination (Times, 11.) Dickens really shows his attitude and feelings towards the Industrial Revolution and its drawbacks. Dickens grew up during the Revolution, which had a great
impact on his life. The working conditions and living conditions were so poor and the inability for children to express themselves and learn more than just plain facts from a book really influenced the writings in his novel as well as many more to come.
Charles Dickens is said to be one of the greatest authors of our time. Dickens wrote on the issues and problems involving the people of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens wrote to be truthful, but to be real. Dickens used experiences from his own life and turned them into creativity for his novels and other writings. Three novels most closely relating to how Dickens felt towards the crime, social conditions, life situations, need, and worry were Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Hard Times. Dickens fills these novels with passion and values on his views of the Industrial Revolution. Many themes like social conditions, expectations, and good vs. evil are highlighted in these novels.

“In Oliver Twist, Hard Times, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet he managed to do it without making himself hated, and, more he has become a national institution himself. In its attitude towards Dickens the English public has
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always been a little like the elephant which feels a blow with a walking-stick as a delightful tickling. Dickens seems to have succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody. Naturally this makes one wonder whether after all there was something unreal in his attack upon society” (George Orwell.)

Dickens’ work with these novels and amazing ability to bring truth about what was happening in that time made him a very popular writer. The people of his time looked up to his novels and public reading because of their realness and the topics covered in his novels. Dickens wrote on issues that affected everyone of that time and therefore is considered on of the best English writers of all time.


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