Volume : 11, Issue : 7, JUL 2025

MAGNIFYING CHILD LABOUR FROM LITERARY ASPECT

DR.ANAMIKA LATA

Abstract

The exploitation of children through labour has always been a prevalent issue across the ages, and literature has contributed as a complex medium for revealing its brutal realities. This study investigates at how different writers, especially those from the Romantic and Victorian periods, have used their writing to highlight the suffering of child labourers, question societal norms, and push for change. In order to humanize the subject and connect with public opinion against child labour, the present paper analyses important literary works and illuminates the way authors used in their vivid imagery, emotive appeals, and social critique. The study concentrates on how literary depictions went beyond simple documentation and made a remarkable contribution to highlight the moral discussion surrounding child exploitation both in the past and today.

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