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This article aims to examine Charles Dickens's attitude towards common people and find out what his real politics toward public was like. Dickens is usually known as a social critic or even a social reformer, but actually, he seems to be conservative politically. He himself announced he would write in common people's shoes, but he always considered mass stupid people and tried to educate or enlighten them through his novels. Especially, to Dickens, poor workers in cities were a kind of violent mob and people to threaten his existing social system. His negative attitude towards common people is reflected on his novels literally. Dickens, as a popular writer, uses a variety of parodic devices in an attempt to hide such a negative attitude in his novels. One of them is a parodic use of gossip including common people's ethical and political opinions. Accordingly, in this article, we made an observation about parodic uses of gossips hybridized in his novels, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood in the point of view of M. M. Bakhtin who considered gossip as common views of mass. As Bakhtin mentioned, Dickens parodically used such gossips and succeeded in criticising both ruling and ruled classes at the same time. Nevertheless, by criticizing common people and neglecting their opinions consistently under the prejudice that common people are stupid and violent, he exposed his political conservatism about common people. Especially, in the narration of his last and unfinished novel, Edwin Drood Dickens's negative attitude towards common people appears to be much stronger more complicated with racialism after witnessing the violence of the colonized people through the Indian Mutiny Rebellion of 1857.
