how industrial revolution was reflected in …

When Industrial Revolution began, factories came up, business profits increased but workers faced problems.Cities expanded in an unregulated way and were filled with overworked and underpaid workers.Deeply critical of these developments, novelists such as Charles Dickens wrote about the terrible effects of industrialisation on people’s lives and characters.His novel Hard Times depicts a fictious industrial town as a grim place full of machinery, smoking chimneys and rivers polluted.Dickens criticised not just the greed for profits but also the ideas that reduced human beings into simple instruments of production.Dickens’ Oliver Twist is the tale of a poor orphan who lived in a world of petty criminals and beggars. Oliver was finally adopted by a wealthy man and lived happily everafter.Emile Zola’s Germinal was written on the life of a young miner and ends on a sad note.Thus we can see how various writers described industrial revolution in their works.<button></button>