Victorian Social Stratification
In England during the Victorian era, social divisions of class were a major part of people’s daily lives. Victorian views on class and of that time’s social division in general, are described in great detail by Charles Dickens in many of his novels published during the Victorian period. Dickens’ Oliver Twist and David Copperfield are two examples of works that tell of the classification between the poor and the wealthy. Through his vivid descriptions, symbolic characters, and dialog spoken, Dickens shows the stratification of people from his time. This essay will describe this stratification, and how Dickens believed that the poor might have been less fortunate, but how most were given a happy ending if their heart was good, and for those who committed evil, would eventually get what they deserved. Many poor, unlucky children during the Victorian period were born in or sent to workhouses, and noted for its opposition to the New Poor Law of 1837, Dickens’ novel, Oliver Twist, gives detailed accounts of the horrible fates that many young, unfortunate paupers had to face in these places. To refer to this kind of care the workhouse officials gave to the pauper infants, Dickens uses the term “farmed” to convey how these chil
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Approximate Word count = 1394
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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