The acclaimed British author; Charles Dickens addressed through his books, and speeches, the social issues and injustices during the Victorian Era. As a public editor, he spread the truth about the social problems in Victorian England mostly focusing on the poor class, and as like any other working class in history, they did not have a say in anything. Coming from the slums himself, he paved a way for other people stuck at the bottom to find a way out by encouraging public opinion, in his case through newspapers, magazines, and speeches. However, he was not the first of his kind, and like every recognizable person in history, he learned from another influential entrant in the social reforms, Thomas Carlyle. Although “he was by no means completely under the influence of Carlyle” ( Dr. Diniejko. Para.3 ), he believed in the same ideas and beliefs Carlyle did, and took those things and publicized them, in a way better than Thomas Carlyle did, and could have done. In …show more content…
Starting from when he was young, Charles Dickens lived an average life, his father as a naval clerk usually in London and Chatham. When Charles was 12 his father was arrested for fraud, forcing all 8 of his children to work in a blacking factory, which later shaped Charles life. In the story of Oliver Twist, his experience working in factories is due to Charles working there himself. When his father was released he went to school and got a job as a solicitor's clerk, then as a shorthand report where he found his first love. “In 1829, he fell in love with Maria Beadnell, the daughter