Charles Dickens was one of the most prominent writers in English history, and his importance came mostly from the fact that he was willing to tackle the most difficult questions in English society. With that in mind, his writing in Hard Times demonstrates his desire to critique the obsession with...

In response to the question of what can creative writing contribute to the historical record, a quick survey of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities gives many contextual clues of the historical era in which it was penned in several ways: through its illustrations, by its contextual clues, and...

By definition, Capitalism means a system in which trade and industry, are controlled by private owners for profit. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was both a writer and social reform critic, but was no revolutionary. Dickens, aged ten and his family moved to London due to financial problems where they lived in...

Research and discuss classism in England during Victorian Times. What were the social classes of this time? What problems were caused because of classism? The history of England is characterized by hierarchical classification of people into classes. In most cases, these classes are based on the amount of wealth that...

The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented social upheaval, when the stratification of England’s society was mainly being disturbed through the Industrial Revolution – when an economy based on manual labor was replaced by one dominated by industry and the manufacture of machinery – and the emergence of the...