Post Correction 2 ("The accidents that damage society")

So far, it has been almost impossible not to relate and to complement what we have learned in both of our courses of Literature. How much can we get to know an author from his/her work? Is it really necessary to read their biographical background first in order to get the main points of their writing, in this case? According to our experience up to now, it seems that yes, it is necessary. That is how we’ve had the approach to Mary Shelley, and Poe as well.As long as I read “The Signalman” by Dickens, I could picture a very lonely Dickens immersed in that kind of job, in which the train and its atmosphere represented nothing but his life; but also his lacks, fears, pains, etc all what he wanted to appear as a hollow, or invinsible. This is why all what was harmful for his feelings, became ghosts. Isn’t it that simmilar to real life? Even though those things that the Signal Man saw were ghosts, indeed, we’d wished our problems and frights were ghosts as well.I believe that it was easy to relate this Dickens’ piece of writing to a social issue, as it was with Oliver Twist, however, both show how decadent society might turn into, which was mainly depicted in the accidents that the Signal man frequently saw.