Social Evils and Dickens’s Reforms Through Oliver Twist, Hard Times, and Great Expectations: A Critical Analysis
Journal Title: BEST : International Journal of Humanities , Arts, Medicine and Sciences ( BEST : IJHAMS ) - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
The present study is a critical examination of social problems of the Victorian period which have hindered the real development of the society. Thus, once they are identified, on the basis of realism and new historicism, they are submitted to a critical analysis throughout Dickens’s works, the strategies to cope with them will highlight the purpose of this paper The study has revealed that, the social evils in question, are related to a higher class division, injustice, criminalities, prostitution, children abuse, pollution, insanity, poverty, unemployment, epidemies, filthiness, corruption, to mention but only a few. Moreover, the work has generated that, Dickens has suggested approaches of virtue, humanism, kindness as well as philanthropy to cope with the above social flaws displayed, which are insufficient as measures. Thus, the paper also aims at setting up a new approach dealing with public sectors reforms for a sustainable development in an area of globalization, climate change, and terrorism, by promoting moral values, Democracy and good governance. This way will probably reshape the society of tomorrow by suggesting corrective strategies to build a society in which people will live in peace, and that of a sustainable development.
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Marcellin Abadame, Taofiki O. Koumakpai
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