CHARLES DICKENS Child labor in the Victorian Age
Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on the south coast of England Charles DICKENS (1812-70) He had an unhappy childhood, since his father went to prison for debt and he had to work in a factory at the age of twelve. These days of sufferings were to inspire much of the content of his novel. His autobiographical novels are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Little Dorrit; their protagonists all became the symbols of an exploited childhood confronted with the grim and bitter realities of slums and factories. In the novel “Oliver Twist “Dickens attacks one or more social evils: workhouses, repressive education and capital punishment. In all these novels, the greatest victims are the children, are exploited and deprived of their freedom a right that every person should have. the passage "the workhouse" makes us understand perfectly the living conditions of the children and how the latter were malnourished, dehydrated and dirty; Every child had to survive with a little porti...
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