Novels of Charles Dickens deal with which changes of the 19th century Britain ? Mention any three such changes
Charles Dickens dealt with the following changes : He wrote about the terrible effects of industrialisation on people’s lives and characters. His novels Hard Times describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purple and buildings that looked the same. Workers are known as ‘hands’ and had no identity other than as operators of machines. The main object of the industrialists was to earn profit. Human beings were reduced as simple instruments of production. In other novels too, Dickens focused on the terrible conditions of urban life under industrial capitalism. His Oliver Twist (1838) is the tale of a poor orphan who lived in a world of petty criminals and beggars. Brought up in a cruel workhouse, Oliver was finally adopted by a wealthy man and lived happily thereafter. But not all novels about the lives of the poor gave readers the comfort of a happy ending.
