The document discusses Charles Dickens and his views as a socialist. It notes that Dickens was a popular 19th century British novelist known for his works depicting British society and industrial capitalism. His novels like Oliver Twist and Hard Times contained political messages and brought attention to the plight of the poor, views which aligned with socialist ideologies of the time. The document also quotes Karl Marx praising Dickens and other Victorian novelists for conveying more political and social truths than professional politicians of the era.

1. Topic Dickens as a socialist
Paper 6 The Victorian Literature
Name Devendra A Joshi
Class M.A. Sem-II
Submitted To Prof. Dilip Barad
(Head of English Dept. M. K. S.
Bhavnagar University)

2.  Born 1812
 Popular British novelist
 World celebrate his birthday
 Power in depicting
 British society
 Industrial capitalism
 A socialist

3.  One of the rich nobility
 Biography, highlighting aspects of his personality
 19th century writer
 Novels, Essays and short stories
 Work
 The political, economic and social aspects of the
society

4. Karl Marx said that
The great Victorian
novelists, Dickens, Thackeray, and the
Brontes, "have issued to the world
more political and social truths than
have been uttered by all the
professional politicians, publicists and
moralists put together"

5.  Social stratification
 Oliver twist and Hard times
 Political message
 Progress
 Literary, improvement and quality
 Part of social reform and criticism

6.  Social focusing
 Victimization and abandonment
 Socialist views
 Addition to political sentiments
 Socialist ideologies
 Social reforms

7.  Society
 Plight of the poor
 humanely

8. Conclusion
 Represents 19th century
 Plight of the poor
 Weak of the society
 Devotes his work
 State to change
 Attitude towards these people

9. According to Even Prince.,
Charles recently hailed Dickens’s
"use of his creative genius… to
campaign passionately for
social justice".