Question

Why did charles dickens write about the terrible effects of industrialization on people's lives and character. Give one reason?

Answer 1

Charles Dickens was the famous English novelist and he wrote about the terrible effects of industrialization on people.

In this regard, his novels Hard Times and Oliver Twist become famous and in the Hard Times, he describes Coketown, a industrial town as grim place where people can find heavy machinery, smoking chimneys, polluted rivers and huge number of buildings.

Even here workers known as ‘hands’ and they do not have their individual identity apart from operating the machines.  

Answer 2

Charles Dickens wanted to make the society aware of the terrible effects of industrialisation on people’s lives and characters.