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Charles Dickens 21 The marriage plot
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Charles Dickens 20 What Was His Comedy Like
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Charles Dickens 18 How Has Dickens Impacted Culture Today
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How has Dickens impacted culture today? We don't know about you, but we watch A Muppet's Christmas Carol every year, so...that's probably the answe...

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Charles Dickens 8 What Impact Did Dickens Have On His Society 90 Views


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What impact did Dickens have upon his society? Besides getting people to yell, "please sir, I want some more" every time he walked down a street. 

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Thank you We sneak Charles dickens what impact did dickens

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have on his society Lash shmoop you certainly have people

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responding what i would call effectively within a emotionally responding

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to his book so it's you know one of the

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ways in which the novels got read in this time

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during questionable literacy we have to remember that we don't

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have ninety nine percent literacy in this period like we

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do know at least in this country so one of

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the ways in which these novels got red was in

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the parlor and a parent would read it to the

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entire family and this was a way kind of like

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our analog tell sitting down and watching telly mission together

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a movie together and they're certainly effective responses in those

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groups and this is the way a lot of victorian

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children would have been brought up is by reading and

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listening to dickens not wilson I'm sure that seeped into

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reform mentality but dickens also had directly influence as i

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mentioned before with regard to benefit events where he would

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call attention to prisons into child labor He also helped

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found like a children's hospital so those with kinds of

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philanthropic things that you would do in and around london

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and then other kinds of things that he had a

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direct impact on which seem a little bit more curmudgeonly

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to us Now chickens didn't like noise and living in

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london the victorian period That was a big issue especially

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if you are a writer making your living by writing

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in your living room You wanted to be quiet So

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dickens among other things signed on with a lot of

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other very famous influential people to some of the first

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noise ordinances in london that prevented things like organ grinders

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and street music and so forth in certain neighborhoods at

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certain times so that these writers could get their work

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done on dh That was successful I mean that was

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in it a direct appeal to parliament What role did

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dickens books play in the lives of children What philanthropic

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efforts to dick and support Parents read the books How 00:02:05.88 --> [endTime] sweet

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