Charles Dickens wrote about terrible, effects of industirasation on people’s lives and characters. His novel Hard Times described Lake Town, a fictitius industrial town, as a grim place of machinery, smoking chimneys, rivers polluted purple and building that all looked the same. His workers were known as ‘hands’, as if they had no other identity them as operations of machines. He criticised the greed for profits and ideas that reduced human beings into simple instruments of production. Dickens also focussed on the terrible conditions of urban life under industrial Capitalism Oliver Twist tells the tale of a poor orphan who lived in the world of criminals and beggars.Though Oliver Twist had a happy ending, but not all novels about the poor ended happily.