Self Deprecation In Charles Dickens

Life within Victorian England was vastly easy for the rich and a test of survival for the poor factory workers who were barely worth the goods they produce. The few who could make their situation comfortable and be more at peace with their ultimate outcome are the base coat to the bigger picture. The ones that became frustrated with the practically pointless work for people who did not need any more luxury are the bright reds and blues that make up the painting character. This outlook causes a mindset that starts an age of self-deprecation and a contrasting age of reflecting on how much self-worth a mere factory worker could possibly have. It was a fool’s dream to believe that if a person started in the lower class they could somehow claw

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David R. Sorenson wrote upon Charles Dickens upbringing and how it affected Dickens many works. Sorensen writes that Dickens himself had, “known sufficient poverty, envy, hunger, and shame in his life,” and so he had, “a clear estimate of potential impulses for revolutionary violence”, showing that Dickens wrote from the heart for the most part when setting his story and characters when describing a lower class narrative. Of course since in this time period serialization became popular and writers were paid by the word Dickens demonstrates the need for the poor (and the previously poor) to milk a job for everything it has perfectly, by drawing out dialogue and descriptions to the point of redundancy. This drive to always earn as much money as possible in a certain job creates a very hostile environment in a community, that can be directed within their own ranks or towards the society that brought them to this place. A Stanford University ran website provides more context that, “when A Tale of Two Cities was first serialized, England was experiencing a period of social and political stability”. This stability was starting to be threatened by tensions rising in the lower class caused by afore mentioned hostility, that made the people of London fear for the possibility of revolution which