Dickens uses realism as a technique to support a larger theme that underlies his writing. He criticizes the institutionalized corruption that existed and attempts to engage the readers' emotions (frustration, anger or sadness) on behalf of the victims. Which of these passages best illustrates this technique?

MCQs on the ways in which the Victorian novel came to grapple with ideas and issues of that time period. And the methods by which the novels of this age represented (and intervened in) social, political, scientific, philosophical, and cultural concerns.