Political and Socialist Views

By Michael Wolf

Charles Dickens BirthplaceBorn in 1812 to John and Elizabeth Dickens. John and his family are imprisoned for a debt he owes.

Blacking Factory

Charles Dickens is sent to work in the Blacking factory at age twelve, working 12 hour days in atrocious conditions. The experience leaves him mentally scared.

Social ReformDickens takes a great interest in social reform. He refers to business men as schemers and villains and develops a hostility towards political economist.

Charles Dickens becomes a successful novelist.

Political PropagandaDickens propaganda that he creates on a stone tablet.

Great ExpectationsDickens experience and secret from the Blacking factory gives him inspiration to write Great Expectations and David Copperfield.

Charles Dickens writings continually reflect his social and political views and his distaste for businessmen.

Social ReformDickens even though he is a successful novelist, he continues his work for Social Reform.

Dickens writes his characters of the lower social class to have more value than the aristocrats that in his own view he has grown to despise. The peasants rise up in revolt against the cruel inhumane treatment of the poor and they storm the Bastille killing the aristocrats which begins the French revolution.

Every story, novel or article you read, the author has put their own biased thoughts and feelings into the stories in how they see certain events, actions or how they see the world and how it affects them in some way or another. Charles Dickens distaste for the upper class and his strong interest in social reform is very evident in all of his writings. Throughout his life, he continually worked on writing novels that reflected his own view of the social classes.