‘What is more, the suffering of the poor in A Tale of Two Cities is directly related to the exploitativeness of the aristocracy’. Discuss.
Humanism and the portrayal of poverty In dickens: Charles Dickens lived during a time of great social
change in Europe. Between the 1770s and the 1840s. England underwent a sweeping transformation from a sleepy
agrarian society to an intensely industrial one. For the first time. the English merchant able to acquire wealth
and mwer. the likes Of had previously only been available to the noble.
What is remarkable about Dickens-s Ik»rtrayal Of Oliver (one of literature's most famous orphans). is
not the inhumanity with which 19111-century scxicly treated its poor. but the complexity of the relationships Of the
people trapped within its system. Dickens never allows his characters to be mere cardN»ard representations of moral
attributes. but paints them fully-fleshed individuals reacting. for better or worse. to the conflicting demands of
society and conscience.
What can we learn from Dickens? The most enduring legacy or the Industrial Revolution—a legacy just
tenacious in our own day as it was in Dickens— is the complacent belief that the poor are completely responsible for
their own situation. and that if they had any spunk. ambition. or brains. they would able to pull themselves
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