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Literature
At the same time that Dickens wrote this story, several situations were occurring in Victorian England, for example the first industrial revolution, a society in deep transformation in terms of class relations and ways of life. A predominantly agrarian society like the English one happened to be the first great industrial country in the world. This sudden change brings hunger, misery, crime, poverty, dirt, child labor, exhausting working hours of fifteen hours or more, accidents in the mines and factories, arbitrary dismissals, abuses ...
Movement
This work is part of the movement of realism since its author Charles Dickens was one of the best representatives of this movement and with this was based on the feelings and how the world looked in the eyes of the people who express them, and seeks express the facts as they are, without the need to lie or describe in a way that moves away from what is real.