In the view of Dickens, the family is a symbol of warmth, the safe haven, the ‘nursing home’ when injured and the reason to urge people to make progress. The outside world is full of intrigues, and there is only the relationship of apathy and money among people. Compared with that, the family will become more sacred and more desirable. The use of contrast is Dickens’ common writing technique and skill.

2.2 The Formation of Dickens’ Views

Literary creation is the reflection of social life. Dickens is a writer who is careful to observe and think about realistic life. He is very sensitive to the characters and details of life, and his literary creation thought is influenced by the realistic life. The requirement of love and marriage in the historical period naturally integrates into his views on marriage and love.

Dickens lives in the Victorians, and the British modernization process has been at its peak. In this process of development, the rapid development economy will inevitably bring about a great change in social structure and family structure. The new middle class begins to propose a new demand to woman, the other half of the family. Since then, women of this class are no longer like past ladies that have nothing to do, and they also do not need to enter the factories to work like ordinary poor women. They undertake the responsibility of the society and family with men with their own unique way. Home is their ‘factory’ and the place where they should struggle and sacrifice.

Obviously, Dickens’ views on marriage and love are the same with it, and whether it is in the realistic life of Dickens or his works, he respects and praises the views on marriage and love favored by the middle class (Lydia Sargent 35). Men provide the source of the economy, while women should devote themselves to the family, including independent personality.

On Dickens’ views on love and marriage, it is formed by the influence of his experiences of love and marriage from the small point; from the whole environment to analyze, it is the influence of that era (Deng 17). When it comes to that era, we have to talk about the essential attribute of capitalism - the patriarchal system. In a broad sense, the patriarchal system is a society where father takes up the dominant position of power; from the narrow sense, the father is the head of the family, and the relationship of descent and family is a social structure confirmed by the father. Generally speaking, the patriarchal system is the parent system. The British anthropologist Maine points out: before the law becomes the social compliance system, each family makes up the society, and in general, the family is a patriarchy in essence.