The Theme of Social Responsibility in Victorian England

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How does dickens explore the theme of social responsibility in Victorian England? Charles dickens wrote ‘A Christmas Carol’ for a certain reason, and that reason was that he wanted to make people aware of the terrible situation the children of the poor were in. He visited a school in 1843 and was appalled by what he saw there. It was a school for the poorest children to teach them basic reading and writing skills. The children’s employment commission had also shocked him. At first dickens had the idea of writing a pamphlet called ‘an appeal to the people of England on behalf of the poor mans child’ but soon realised that seen as he was the most popular novelist of the time people would take much more notice he wrote about the terrible conditions in a story. Dickens travelled the streets making observations of the city so that he was able to describe to the readers the sights, sounds and smells of it. He wanted the readers to experience everything how the children would. Victorian London was a place of extremes, in the 1800’s the population was around 1 million...

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