How had Charles Dickens depicted the terrible effects of industrialisation
How had Charles Dickens depicted the terrible effects of industrialisation on peoples lives and characters ? Explain with examples.
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Effects of industrialization:
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In hard times Charles Dickens describe a fictitious industrial town, coke town, a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys, Polluted rivers.
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Workers are known as hands.
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Dickens criticised not just greed for profit but also the ideas that reduced human being into a simple instruments of production.