MORAL VALUES AND SOCIAL CRITICISM IN CHARLES DICKEN'S NOVELS
Keywords:
Dickens, moral values, social criticism, Victorian society, compassion, reform, class, institutions, narrative ethics, poverty.Abstract
Charles Dickens’s fiction interweaves moral imagination with trenchant social criticism. His major novels—Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations—expose institutional injustice, class inequality, and the moral failures of Victorian society while also proposing compassion, personal responsibility, and social reform as ethical remedies. Dickens balances moral didacticism and narrative sympathy to provoke public conscience and policy change. This article examines recurring moral motifs, narrative strategies of critique, and Dickens’s role as a public moralist. [1, p. 14]; [2, p. 7].
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