Social Issues in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

Charles Dickens’ novels mirror his age. His purpose was to focus attention on the various evils of his time. Dickens has described in his novels the bitter issues of life, especially those of children. He has attacked the prevailing evils of his day as a satirist. He has thrown light on the dark haunts of vice, crime and suffering. He has lime lighted the poor state of education, the miserable condition of jails, injustice, bureaucracy, nepotism, laissez faire, acquisitive worldliness and many others evils. He is specially the novelist of the London life, and has described the disparity of life- the life of the slums and the life of the wealthy persons in whom the wealth of the nation is concentrated