Social criticism in charles dicken's bleakhouse

Abstract

The literary works published during the Victorian period are said to be the result of a social awareness. This was a writing that spoke of the needs of the age, of the specific state of mind which had grown up inside of a general public who kept waiting for solutions for a long time. Thus, the contributions of the Victorian writers were so relevant and interesting and nearly all the prominent Victorian writers expressed their unwillingness and conflicting views on the prevailing mores of their time. In this way, the researcher who goes to the Victorians without predisposition must be struck over and over by the fundamental tone of distress which infests so much that is for the most part taken as normal of the period. Charles John Huffman Dickens (1812-1870) is a great Victorian novelist who left a deep artistic print in the world of literature as well as many other domains, since his works involved many aspects including the social and political ones. Many critics (Ian Milligan, Forster, Nabokov and others) agreed on Dickens‟ genius in depicting society and different people‟s characters using a satiric tone and comic style mostly.