·         Fiction is so important  during the Victorian age , because: reflects social changes, such as the Industrial Revolution; the struggle for democracy and growth of towns; creates  opinions to the readers (information) and bring to the surface the condition of the new urban culture.

·         The ideal reading public of Victorian novel is middle class and in  particular, lower middle class.

·         Novels were published in instilments, because each chapter was anxiously awaited, becoming the centre of discussion and speculation as to what  would happen next.

·         The main contents of Victorian novel are: the problem of relationship between one class and another, the desire to rise and the fear of falling down the social ladder, and the problems that arose from exploitation of labour and   corruption or inadequacy in the social services .

·         Class was the most important topic of the novel, because the Industrial Revolution has created two classes opposed the capitalists, which provided money for factories, very rich and the workers who provided their work at the factory but they were very poor as they were consider goods.

·          A typical aspect of  Dickens’ style is his ability to mix drama and humors : he juxtaposes or mixed sad and comic details; he uses hyperbole , exaggeration incidents and details; he ridicules what he intends to criticize by repeating words/  phrases/ sentence structure.

·         Pathos was analogous to humanitarianism and philanthropy as another manifestation, a symptom of the sense of guilty and fears of the middle classes . The logic of  Utilitarianism offered a sound excuse but was the ideological as well practical cage, if on the one hand all this accounts for the pathetic side of Victorian art, on the other , it also explains much about the complementary side of  the coin , the grotesque.

·         The landscape of hunger and desperate object poverty  in the cities, made the rich feel both guilty and afraid: guilty and therefore philanthropist, afraid and therefore cruelly repressive. The sense of guilty and fears of the middle classes the grotesque described the  underworld according to peculiar, humorous strategies of discourse as the  world of sin, vice  and damnation, as the hell of the Victorian urban cosmos , the place of the sinful and therefore damned. In doing so the novel gave the middle classes both an “alibi” and a way of exorcising all the ghosts of the middle classes’ bad conscience.

·         The Victorian novel plays a fundamental role on legislators and opinion-former, because the novel widely- read thought novelistic mixing of documentary and romance, sensationalism  and prophecy began to have a real impact to the new urban culture.

·         Caricature works as a filter giving the reader the possibility not to recognize his own image through the distorting mirror of the novel so that image presented can raise both shudders of horror, disgust , laughter.

·         Caricatures are memorable figures of flawed human  beings depicted with a sympathetic or humorous or satirical tone. They are usually flat characters that never change thought the story but that does not impair their vitality.  In the Victorian novel  a myriad of characters and caricatures gives shape to an anonymous masses, making them know and recognizable. This became a kind of language readers had in common just as television serials have become today.

·         Facts is a key- word in Dickens production. In the Industrial Revolution important were the material facts, something that really exists/ concrete , you can touch while the pleasure , the sentiment and fantasy are all remove because they not produce wealth.