Submitted to Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar

universitySmt. S. B. Gardy Department of

English, India, Gujarat[Bhavnagar]Prepared by- Nupur Vyas

Email id-nupurvyas1995@gmail.comRoll Number-39

Batch Year-2015-2017Subject- paper-6 The Victorian Literature

My Topic Of Presentation• Do you think that Dickens and George

Eliot study Victorian society?• How they differ in their Perspective ?• How they are looking at the same

thing but from different angles?

Charles dickens

• Dickens was marvelously keen observer with an active imagination.

• Oliver Twist had the serious purpose of mitigating the evils under which the poor were suffering.

• His characters were really vivid but not terribly nuanced.

Dickens perspective to study Victorian society

Charles Dickens• Dickens novels are dealt with

social problem novel, particular emphasis on the increasing gulf between rich, poor, and employers and working class.

• To highlight the human and social cost of industrialism and aggressive policies such as Dicken’s Oliver twist ,the depiction of the operation of the new poor law and workhouse system and of urban

• Conditions giving rise to delinquency and criminal underclass.

• His efforts to stop child labour and compulsory education.

• He known for social realism, comedy ,prose style and social criticism.

• He was fierce critic of poverty and social stratification of Victorian society

George Eliot• Eliot emphasis on individualism, depiction of female

maturation as a process of self-realization rather than self- correction.

• Her Novels are most Famously Middle-March, are marked with their Realism and Psychological insights

• Her aim of novel is to give moral instruction to the readers.

• She depicts inner struggle of soul and development of soul.

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• Her heroes and heroines differ radically from those Dickens and Thackrey.

• The general character of all her novels may be described in author’s own term Psychologic realism.

• Her novels reflects the country life in England.

References

• Wikipedia• William. J. long history book• Edward albert history book• Books. Google•