During the Victorian age, life was so difficult for people, specially for children and woman. Actually we can realize about that throughout the movie "Oliver Twist" and the short story of "The signal-man".
Poverty is the strongest theme that represent the Victorian age, because it shows that people used to live in poor conditions without rights and possibilities to make progress with their lives and to assure the life of their descendants.
It is very sad to see that reality of children in the movie Oliver Twist, because children are innocent creatures and they need to grow up in a fair society, in a clean world and obviously where nobody cold ignore them and make them suffer.
In the story of the signal-man we can notice a huge imagination of the author where the reader can be involved in the story leaving apart that those ideas of ghosts are not part of the reality and think that it may could be true.