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(i) He wrote about the terrible effects of industrialization.  (ii) He wrote about the pollution that the industrialization caused.  (iii) Dickens criticized the greed for profits.  (iv) He criticized the idea that human beings were treated as simple instruments of production.  (v) He talked about the terrible conditions of urban life.  (iv) He discussed about the exploitation of children/ orphans in ‘Oliver Twist’.

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