| Charles Dickens was a famous writer when he | | | | success of the nation. He often tells the stories of |
| was alive and he is now one of the best-known | | | | victims, and made his reader aware of the |
| and most widely read of English writers. Dickens | | | | problem of Victorian society. |
| wrote from comedy to social criticism and from | | | | Moreover, Dickens tried to write novels, which |
| history to journalism. The history of Dickens’s | | | | criticized society in a more general way. David |
| life that made him wrote many novels about | | | | Copperfield (1849-50) was his most positive novel |
| social life and criticized of Victorian. His poor head | | | | about growing up. The hero, David, became the |
| for finances in his childhood be an inspiration for | | | | kind of success, which Victorian admired- he is |
| him to wrote about the lower classes and the | | | | rich, he marries, and a general sense of happy |
| criticized for government who did not care with | | | | ending is given. This novel was based in part of his |
| people. Dickens wrote about religion and fiction. | | | | childhood and his success. However, when he |
| Dickens spent much time to traveling and | | | | came to write another partly autobiographical |
| campaigning against many of the social evils of his | | | | story, Great Expectations (1860-1), there is a |
| time. He was very concern with the problems of | | | | sense that the ending will not be so happy: there |
| the society change in that time. | | | | is a feeling of disappointment, that hopes will not |
| Charles Dickens wrote thirteen novels between | | | | be met, and that the earlier ideals have been |
| Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Mystery of | | | | false. Then in Hard Times (1854), Dickens shows |
| Edwin Drood, published in the year of his death, | | | | the worst sides of the new industrial society of |
| 1870. In Oliver Twist (1837-8) and Nicholas | | | | the Mindlands of England and most clearly shows |
| Nickleby (1838-9), he wrote of the social problem | | | | how the poor lived.. Industry is contrasted with |
| of young boy named Oliver. Oliver had bad | | | | the freedom of the individual and the whole novel |
| treatment in an institution for the poor and | | | | presents a very pessimistic picture of the nation. |
| working for criminals. Here, Dickens wanted | | | | In addition, in A Christmas Carol, it shows the |
| education for all children, and shown his readers | | | | traditional picture of Victorian family values, and |
| the kind of problems children had in the cities, | | | | helped to create the image of Christmas as the |
| where poor people had no chance to share in the | | | | most important family festival. |