ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -His origins were middle class, if of a newfound and precarious respectability; one grandfather had been a domestic servant, and the other an embezzler. His father, a clerk in the navy pay office, was well paid, but his extravagance and ineptitude often brought the family to financial embarrassment or disaster.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although his authorial perspective was always rooted in the petty-bourgeois class he was born into, he never forgot how his father was imprisoned for debts, and how the financial circumstances of his family forced him to leave school at the age of 12 and work a 10-hour day in a shoe polish factory.

Detailed explanation-3: -The early life of Charles Dickens was blighted by poverty. Confined as a small boy to a boot blacking factory by the fecklessness of his father, he went on to become the most successful writer of his time, and one of the wealthiest self-made men in England.

Detailed explanation-4: -The writer finds conditions of the working class in the novel which is represented by Bob Cratchit, who is treated poorly by his employer whose named Ebenezer Scrooge. Living conditions is worst, the working class lives in the slums, lives cramped in a small house, and shares private facilities.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dickens died aged 58 in 1869, a very wealthy man – his estate worth the equivalent of £50 million pounds today.