Oliver Twist and Hedda Gabler: Commentary on the Social Conditions of that Time Both Charles Dickens and Henrik Ibsen, writing at the onset of the Industrial Revolution, made their literary work a commentary on the social conditions of the time. Their work illustrates the conditions of life at the time and their characters portray ,if a bit idealized, the nature of people back then. The characters in their work contain destructive natures that may be the result of the their surroundings. As always the nature of these destructive characters, they remain hidden to everybody else in the story or play except to