This document provides biographical information about Charles Dickens and analyzes some of his most famous novels. It notes that Dickens came from a poor family in England and had to leave school at a young age to work in a factory. As a journalist, he began writing stories that brought attention to social injustices faced by the poor. Novels like Oliver Twist criticized England's treatment of orphans and workhouses. The document examines Dickens' portrayal of childhood, poverty, and the classes in Victorian society through his novels.

1. Name:- Ekta Jayswal
Class:-M.A. [SEM:2]
Roll No.:- 10
Paper No.6:-The Victorian Literature
Batch:-2017/19
Enrollment No.:-PG2069108420180027
E-mail ID:- ektajayswal12@gmail.com
Submitted to:- Dr. Dilip Barad
S.B.Gardi English Department [MKBU]

2.  Dicken is a 19th century
writer who used
novels,essays and short
stories to bring to light
social injustices against the
poor.
 Through his writing,Dickens
also reflected on the extent
and impact of poverty on
the society in this period..
 Through his
reflection,Dickens
presented powerful social
and political views
criticizing the rich and the
state and arguing out the
cause of the poor..

3.  Dickens was born on February 1912,in
Portsmouth, England..
 He came from a poor family but he was
lucky enough to attend school..but
unfortunately his father was jailed and Dickens
was forced to leave school early and start
workings in a boots polish factory..
 He work their for three years and the
conditions were very bad resulting in Dickens
suffering with loneliness as a young boy..

4.  Dickens started to write as a journalist. He
contributed articles to journals called "The
Mirror of Parliament" and "The True Sun"..
 Later In 1836,a story by Dickens "The
Pickwick Papers" was published as a serial.
 This became very popular and Dickens
began to became famous...
 At the beginning Dickens called himself
'Boz',this was his pen name..

5.  Charles Dickens went on to produce massive
amount of material during his lifetime.
 He published fifteen novels, wrote hundreds
of short-stories and non-fiction pieces.
 Dickens was a great moralist and a
perceptive Social commentor.
 Dickens was not the first novelist to draw
attention of the reading public to the
deprivation of the lower classes in England..

6. 1. “Oliver Twist”
2. “Great Expectations”
3. “Bleak House”
4. “David Copperfield”
5. “Dombey and Son”
6. “A Tale of Two Cities”
7. “Little Dorrit”
8. “A Christmas Carol”
9. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”
10.“Hard Times”...

7. Three different social novels:-
1) The Parochial World -Its
inhabitants belong to the lower
middle class..
2) The Criminal World -
Murderer, Pickpockets, living in
squalid slums..
3) The Victorian Middle Class-
Respectable people believing in
human dignity..

8.  Dickens shifted the social frontiers of the
novel...
 The 18th century realistic upper middle
class world was replaced by the one of the
lower orders..
 He depicted Victorian society in all its
variety,it's richness and it's squalor.
 He was on the side of the poor,the outcast
and the working class..

9. He exaggerated and ridiculed
peculiar social characteristics
of the middle,lower and
lowest classes,and a weak
female characters.
Dickens children are either
innocent or corrupted by
adults..
The subjects to which he
returned time and again:
Family, Childhood and Poverty.
Most of these children begin
in negative circumstances and
rise to happy endings which
resolve the contradiction in
their life created by adult
world..

10.  In “Oliver Twist”, Dickens
has presented the
pathos of innocent
childhood and protest
against the abuses of
powers, especially on
the part of the
governmental institution.
He throws light on the
workhouse system of
those days in England.

11. In his novella, then, Dickens alludes to
these social problems of his beloved
London..
Industrial Revolution brought many people
from the countryside into the city of
London, and this growing urban
population brought with it squalid
conditions and mistreatment of children
who were made to work, as well. There
were debtors' prisoners and many
homeless and orphaned.
In fact, Dickens was himself one of these
children who had to work because his
father was in debtors' prison.

12.  Dickens totally rejected the claims of
classical economics and showed his moral
concern for the social well bring of the nation..
 His novels expose isolated abuses and
contains a bitter diagnosis of the condition of
England..
 Through this novels Dickens directs this
ironical attack at Victorian public opinion...

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