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    Dickens was successful in achieving social change through his novels. He brought attention to unfair treatment under the Poor Law of 1834 and injustice faced by children, women, and men. His own experiences inspired his portrayals of these issues. He motivated revolution in government and woke the upper classes to reality by creating relatable characters. Dickens used locations in London he knew well to describe settings and institutions. Through novels like Oliver Twist, he satirized the unjust treatment in workhouses and called the upper classes to be more empathetic to the plight of paupers. In Hard Times, he created a dystopian industrial city to critique Victorian society's emphasis on facts over imagination and mechanization of the working classes. The main

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    Dickens was successful in achieving social change through his novels. He brought attention to unfair treatment under the Poor Law of 1834 and injustice faced by children, women, and men. His own experiences inspired his portrayals of these issues. He motivated revolution in government and woke the upper classes to reality by creating relatable characters. Dickens used locations in London he knew well to describe settings and institutions. Through novels like Oliver Twist, he satirized the unjust treatment in workhouses and called the upper classes to be more empathetic to the plight of paupers. In Hard Times, he created a dystopian industrial city to critique Victorian society's emphasis on facts over imagination and mechanization of the working classes. The main

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    Dickens was successful in achieving social change through his novels. He brought attention to unfair treatment under the Poor Law of 1834 and injustice faced by children, women, and men. His own experiences inspired his portrayals of these issues. He motivated revolution in government and woke the upper classes to reality by creating relatable characters. Dickens used locations in London he knew well to describe settings and institutions. Through novels like Oliver Twist, he satirized the unjust treatment in workhouses and called the upper classes to be more empathetic to the plight of paupers. In Hard Times, he created a dystopian industrial city to critique Victorian society's emphasis on facts over imagination and mechanization of the working classes. The main

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    6. Conclusions
    In conclusion, I believe that it can be said that Dickens was successful in
    achieving a change in Victorian society. Through his novels he reached a part of the
    nation that was in the darkness about certain important issues such as the unfair
    treatment of paupers under the Poor Law of 1834. His own life served him as a
    constant inspiration to his novels where he portrayed dramatic characterizations and
    the injustice of the life of children, women and men. It seems that he was motivated to
    generate a profound revolution in the government; to wake up the upper classes and
    show them the reality by using characters that people can feel empathy with,
    generating a real change in human nature. Dickens was also known to be a “man of the
    theatre, a tireless supporter of good causes and social reforms, a radical campaigning
    journalist, the head of a large, demanding family” (Grant 1984, p. 17) among other
    things, who had a sad part in his life that shaped his vision of the world in a particular
    way. But despite all this, he managed to use and transform these memories in real life
    changes, using them to the benefits of the unfortunate ones.
    The Industrial Revolution and the cities affected by it was a common field for
    him to create stories. Dickens uses many times the entrance of the character to the new
    city and the first impressions of it. As a citizen of the city of London he knew their
    whereabouts very well because he walked through the city streets daily, that is why in
    his novels he is capable to make the locations so palpable and approachable to the
    reader, describing with assertion many institutions, shops and slums. On the other hand,
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    the era of the Industrial Revolution was a time of great change in every aspect of life. It
    constituted a change in commerce, population, geography and life style. By unifying
    these two central topics he denounced the useless system of justice in the Victorian
    period, its education, sanitation and the necessity to improve the life of people but
    mainly paupers.
    In the novel Oliver Twist (1838), Dickens has chosen the character of Oliver, a
    hungry pauper boy, to satirize the system of the workhouses and the unjust treatment of
    the people living there. Fortunately for the young boy, he overcomes every situation that
    he is put through mainly because he is used by the writer as a tool to call the upper
    classes to be more empathetic with the situation that paupers confront every day. He
    points directly to the government as main hand that is too quick to punish vagrancy but
    also that turns the blind eye in the implementation of other laws that protect people,
    especially children.
    In Hard Times (1854), Dickens creates a dystopian world where he sets the city
    of Coketown. In this novel he makes the reader spy through an imaginative hole, just as
    the children in the novel do, to explain the doctrines on which Victorian society stood.
    Once again, the use of irony and satire are presented in every page of the book,
    especially when he refers to certain topics such as Mr. Grandgrind’s Philosophy of Fact,
    took by real philosophers’ ideals, such as Smith and Bentham. Fancy and fact are not
    allowed to coexist in this industrial society where the mechanization of the low classes
    is imperative. Dogmatic ideals are implemented to replace the identity of the population
    and through a variety of many key characters, Dickens shows the reader the difference
    between two sides of civilization: one made of facts and one made of imaginative
    elements, both necessary for the construction of the self.
    To sum up, I think that the main aim of Dickens’ novel is to provide the reader
    with an end that gives a sense of social order but at the same time poses new questions
    that leave the reader thinking what we as humans can do to make of the place where we
    live, and also of our future, a better place. But more importantly, it is to point out our
    duty as citizens to always try to stand up against injustice and fight for the ones that
    have no voice in our society, no matter in which period we are living in

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