A Walk in a Workhouse (Charles Dickens)

In this piece of literature, Dickens wrote about his experience in entering a workhouse in the eighteenth century.

He saw the suffering that lower classes had to deal with while the higher classes enjoyed many privileges.

Also, how the people there were sick and tired. The food they had was not enough for the kind of work they did, but they had to get used to eating little.

Reflection: When I was reading this essay, it was shocking to know that even though slavery was abolished many years ago, in those workplaces people were practically slaves. Children, women, men and old people were there just because they were paupers, and the owners of those places took advantage of that. Conditions that were and are not inhumane to live, only shows that at that time poor people had no control over their lives and were replaceable.