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Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist (1838) (Dickens attacked: (the social evils…
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (1838)
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The protagonist, Oliver Twist, is always innocent and pure and remains incorruptible throughout the novel.
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Dickens attacked:
the social evils of his times such as poor houses, unjust courts and the underworld;
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the officials of the workhouses because they abused the right of the poor as individuals and caused them further misery.
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Hard Times (1854)
It is a ‘denunciation novel’: a powerful accusation of some of the negative effects of the industrial society.
The setting: the fictional city of Coketown, which stands for a real industrial mill town in mid-19th-century Victorian England.
Characters: people living and working in Coketown, like the protagonist Thomas Gradgrind, an educator who believes in facts and statistics. --> His school tries to turn children into little machines that behave according to such rules.
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Aim: to illustrate the dangers of allowing people to become like machines and to suggest that without compassion and imagination, life would be unbearable.