... people as they really are is impossible if the writer offers a surrogate for reality or treats the sense and substance of the events and phenomena he is examining in an arbitrary, subjective manner. If the social analysis of the environment in which the characters act is to be realistic, the writer must see and portray reality in its determinant, typical, manifestations, which are ... life into the non-rational or grotesque world outside time and place and with a logic of its own. A significant feature of Victorian novel, and particularly of Dickens novels, is the heroes" moral growth o...

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