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The novel form, exemplified by Henry Fielding and Charles Dickens, primarily depicted:
AAristocratic court life only (typical)
BLives of common middle-class and working-class people
CMythological gods
DMedieval knights only
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Lives of common middle-class and working-class people
1. NCERT discusses the rise of the novel.
2. Novels from the 18th and 19th centuries — by Fielding, Dickens, Austen, the Brontes — depicted common people's daily life and social problems.
3. They appealed to a growing literate middle class.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 5 "Print Culture and the Modern World", §Novel ¶1_
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