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DICKENS’S
REPRESENTATION OF
CHILD LABOUR IN
VICTORIAN ENGLAND
Name- Rudrika gohel
M.A. English
Sem: 2
Batch: 2017-2019
Roll No: 31
Enrollment No: 2069108420180015
Submitted to: Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU
Email Id: rudrikagohel97@gmail.com
Paper No: 6
Introduction
■ He emphasizes his childhood tragedies,
with reference of fictive characters
■ Working in warren’s blacking factory
■ Dickens life spanned the reign of four
English monarchs.
■ Created some of the world's best-known
fictional characters.
■ His first book:
Sketches by Boz
The Pickwick Papers
DICKENS AND HIS NOVELS
■ Novels present a portrait of the
macabre childhood of a
considerable number of
Victorian orphans.
■ His novels:
combine sharp,
realistic,
detail with romance,
farce,
melodrama
■ He depicted the human
misery of modern
industrial city.
■ Like,
David Copperfield,
Tale of two cities,
Oliver Twist,
Hard Times
Characters in Dickens Novels
■ Dickens all of novels share distinct
characteristics that mark them as
“Dickensian.”
■ His characters play into popular
Victorian stereotypes,
■ Like, the innocent orphan,
the unethical businessman and
the sleazy criminal.
Continue
■ All characters remind everyone that the much-heralded progress of the
Industrial Revolution had left many people in the gutter
■ The cause of child labour is the result of industrial revolution
■ Dickens believed that his own imagination, in fact, his overall well-being
depended on the contact he kept with his childhood.
■ He had abiding faith in the innocence and magic of children.
■ He write down vehemently the condition of the helpless children in Victorian
society.
■ That’s why his novels were social commentaries of his times.
Dickens as a Social Critic
Child Labour in Victorian England
■ Child laborers were forced to work
in factories, due to their poverty
■ Children worked 16 hour days
under atrocious conditions
■ Poverty- root cause of child labour
during this period.
■ Dickens himself was experience
of child labour
CHILD CHARACTERS IN DICKENS
NOVELS
■ His novels are full of neglected,
exploited, or abused children:
. the orphaned Oliver Twist,
The crippled Tiny Tim,
The stunted Smike,
Doomed tykes like Paul Dombey
and Little Nell
Oliver twist
A Christmas Carol
Nicholas Nickleby
Dombey and Son.
Child Labour Causes in India
■ Even today the lives of the poor children have not changed much,
■ Children are forced to work in deplorable condition, in many countries around
the globe.
■ the sort of child labour in India:
repairing tires
Metal works
Preparing tobacco leaves
Conclusion
■ Dickens was not only the first great urban novelist in England, but also one of
the most important social commentators who used fiction effectively to criticize
economic, social, and moral abuses in the Victorian era and he contributed to
several important social reforms. In India and Liberia have revealed children as
young as 5 years old operating machinery and working in illegal embroidery and
tyre factories.
Paper 6

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Paper 6

  • 1. DICKENS’S REPRESENTATION OF CHILD LABOUR IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND Name- Rudrika gohel M.A. English Sem: 2 Batch: 2017-2019 Roll No: 31 Enrollment No: 2069108420180015 Submitted to: Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU Email Id: rudrikagohel97@gmail.com Paper No: 6
  • 2.
  • 3. Introduction ■ He emphasizes his childhood tragedies, with reference of fictive characters ■ Working in warren’s blacking factory ■ Dickens life spanned the reign of four English monarchs. ■ Created some of the world's best-known fictional characters. ■ His first book: Sketches by Boz The Pickwick Papers
  • 4. DICKENS AND HIS NOVELS ■ Novels present a portrait of the macabre childhood of a considerable number of Victorian orphans. ■ His novels: combine sharp, realistic, detail with romance, farce, melodrama
  • 5. ■ He depicted the human misery of modern industrial city. ■ Like, David Copperfield, Tale of two cities, Oliver Twist, Hard Times
  • 6. Characters in Dickens Novels ■ Dickens all of novels share distinct characteristics that mark them as “Dickensian.” ■ His characters play into popular Victorian stereotypes, ■ Like, the innocent orphan, the unethical businessman and the sleazy criminal.
  • 7. Continue ■ All characters remind everyone that the much-heralded progress of the Industrial Revolution had left many people in the gutter ■ The cause of child labour is the result of industrial revolution
  • 8. ■ Dickens believed that his own imagination, in fact, his overall well-being depended on the contact he kept with his childhood. ■ He had abiding faith in the innocence and magic of children. ■ He write down vehemently the condition of the helpless children in Victorian society. ■ That’s why his novels were social commentaries of his times. Dickens as a Social Critic
  • 9. Child Labour in Victorian England ■ Child laborers were forced to work in factories, due to their poverty ■ Children worked 16 hour days under atrocious conditions ■ Poverty- root cause of child labour during this period. ■ Dickens himself was experience of child labour
  • 10. CHILD CHARACTERS IN DICKENS NOVELS ■ His novels are full of neglected, exploited, or abused children: . the orphaned Oliver Twist, The crippled Tiny Tim, The stunted Smike, Doomed tykes like Paul Dombey and Little Nell Oliver twist A Christmas Carol Nicholas Nickleby Dombey and Son.
  • 11. Child Labour Causes in India ■ Even today the lives of the poor children have not changed much, ■ Children are forced to work in deplorable condition, in many countries around the globe. ■ the sort of child labour in India: repairing tires Metal works Preparing tobacco leaves
  • 12.
  • 13. Conclusion ■ Dickens was not only the first great urban novelist in England, but also one of the most important social commentators who used fiction effectively to criticize economic, social, and moral abuses in the Victorian era and he contributed to several important social reforms. In India and Liberia have revealed children as young as 5 years old operating machinery and working in illegal embroidery and tyre factories.