Charles Dickens's 'Dombey and Son' Part V

the values and emotions that comes to those who are inappropriately upwardly mobile: births that end tragically, failing marriages, re-marriages and financial ruin; all of which are still relevant today in a society which was as preoccupied with monetary success as those living during the middle of the last century. Dickens was a commercial success and his financial well-being depended upon the successful and reliable interchange of ideas; these ideas, sparked by his own immense imagination and social criticism, were dependant upon technological advances such as new printing techniques and he advent of lending library and complemented by the newly flourishing railway systems which would distribute them. Dickens was in effect a product of his time: a time which would eventually be replaced with a world more obsessed by global knowledge as the century marched stoically onwards towards modernity.

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