Social Issues In The Christmas Carol

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In Britain’s past society, the social issues of this time period can be examined in “The Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, and other selections. Britain had a growing urban population that brought with it squalid situations and ill-treatment of women and children. In this time period, it was overcrowded, filthy, and replete with violations of civil rights. Dickens and the other authors were able to bring attention to the social problems of past England. The social issues are depicted the ills and wrongs during this time. I believe the oppression of susceptible women and the maltreatment of vulnerable little ones affected society by depriving diversity. Diversity was bereaved in this society because both women and children were silenced,

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