Benjamin Disraeli: An Analytical Comparison of the Victorian Age Intellectual with Contemporaries Charles Dickens and Thomas Carlyle

Benjamin Disraeli was a politically engaged man. He was a Member of Parliament, Chancellor of the Exchequer, which is relatively like the United States' Secretary of the Treasury, and was twice the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Unlike many politicos of his day, however, Disraeli was heavily involved in issues of the common man of Victorian England, such as expanding suffrage to all taxpaying men, improving health facilities and practices, housing, trade unions, but most …

…Parliament do not make him a deserving public intellectual, however. His philosophy on government and his actual writing style are both extremely intriguing. He, like intellectuals of his day such as Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens, addressed the issues of the people. And while Carlyle, and oftentimes Disraeli, did not necessarily take in hand the causes of those people, due to their respective interests in despotic government and aristocratic prevalence, the issues were attended to.