How Dickens Criticizes Victoriana In A Christmas Carol

How Dickens Criticizes Victoriana In A Christmas Carol Everybody has an obligation to scrutinize, dissect, or otherwise work towards reform in his or her given society. The status quo should always be held up to a highly critical eye, as it is perpetually flawed. Dickens, more so than most people of his time, was well aware of this duty to arrest the progressively growing feeling of complacency within his culture. He saw the danger in …

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