Answer:
(i) When Industrial
Revolution began, factories came up, business profits increased but workers
faced problems.
(ii) Cities
expanded in an unregulated way and were filled with overworked and underpaid
workers.
(iii)
Deeply critical of these developments, novelists such as Charles Dickens wrote
about the terrible effects of industrialization on people's lives and characters.
(iv)
His novel Hard Times depicts a fictions industrial town as a grim place full of
machinery, smoking chimneys and rivers polluted.
(v)
Dickens criticized not just the greed for profits but also the ideas that reduced
human beings into simple instruments of production.
(vi)
Dickens' Oliver Twist is the tale of a poor orphan who lived in a world of petty
criminals and beggars. Oliver was finally adopted by a wealthy man and lived
happily ever after.
(vii) Emile
Zola's Germinal was written on the life of a young miner and ends on a sad
note.
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