Charles Dickens Research Paper

Most famous for his works; A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, Charles Dickens uses his works to bring light to controversial topics such as society and class, crime and violence. Here we will examine these themes in the three novels, written in the mid 1800’s; Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers and Barnaby Rudge, and examine Dickens upbringing to form a conclusion of whether or not further exploring these ideas could encourage people to explore new ways of coping with homelessness and poverty.

Charles Dickens was born February 7th, 1812 in the United Kingdom, he is known as one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era. Because of financial difficulties, the family moved

And Mr. Bumble, who after Oliver poured his heart out to him saying "I feel as if I had been cut here, sir, and it was all bleeding away;" (Oliver Twist 4.45), pitied Oliver but did nothing to help him. All levels of society equally culpable to crime. Dickens wrote about crime to make a point of the source of criminal behavior while others wrote about it because knew it would sell. Dickens wrote about it to show how criminals lived discourage the poor to turn to crime to show external influences more than internal urges. Dickens about the abuse of women and children by men but his publishers were conflicted about whether to publish it. For example, in Oliver Twist, Dickens shy's away from the murder of Nancy Sikes, but the murder later becomes the high

In London, there is nothing in place to help the poor get out of their situation, no support, only punishment. "Furthermore, Barnaby Rudge is set in revolutionary times, and identifies some of the abuses that sparked the outbreaks, and describe the violent, chaotic behavior of the mobs" (Crawley). Dickens Barnaby Rudge is full of people who cannot escape poverty, there are people living in poverty who do not care, most are people with immense suffering, for example, the cobbler inherited money and ended up in debt, and dies in a debtor's prison because he does not care enough to get himself out. Others turn to unethical methods to escape poverty, Mr. Jingle would have died in prison if not for Mr. Pickwick (Pickwick Papers). Jingle allows Pickwick to rehabilitate him after hitting rock bottom after scheming for various mercenary