The Humanity Is Like Then

The years of the Victorian England was a time of rapid economic development. After the Reform Bill of 1832 passed the power from the decaying aristocrats into the hands of the middle-class industrial capitalists, the Industrial Revolution soon geared up. However fast England was developing into a rich, advanced industrial country in the Victorian age, this was also an age that saw the greatest disparity and the sharpest contrast between the rich and the poor.Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy were the famous writers of the time, who were generally known as critical realists. They both uncovered strenuous activity, dynamic change and ferment of ideas and recurrent social unrest in their novels. David Copperfield and Far from the Madding Crowd tapped into the main social problems, exposed the evils of the existing institutions, which were primarily concerned with people in society and with their relation to other people.The two writers were both great humanitarian. Embracing deep humanitarianism, they described all kinds of characters, especially those humble and wretched people, and poured much sympathy and pity on them. The ideal end in their novels penetrated the Victorian general ideology, and partly released their early writing ideas and styles.