CHARACTERIZATION OF PERIOD IN THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS AND WILLIAM THACKERAY

Abstract

The article deals with the characterization of period in the works of Charles Dickens and William Thackeray. The story of an orphan who escapes from a workhouse and finds himself in a den of thieves shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens writes of childhood innocence surrounded by evil and cruelty, depicting the dark underworld of nineteenth-century London, populated by vivid, memorable characters.