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Oliver Twist as aa Twisted History
1. Name :- Neelamba R Sarvaiya.
M. A. Sem-2
Roll no – 21
Paper no-6 The Victorian Literature.
S.B.Gardi English department
M.K. Bhavnagar University.
Year-2013-2014
3. Oliver Twist by Charles dickens
Oliver Twist, subtitled The
Parish Boy's Progress.
It is the second novel by
English author Charles Dickens,
published by Richard Bentley in
1838.
Oliver Twist is notable for
Dickens's unromantic portrayal of
criminals and their sordid lives
6. “CHILD LABOR in Oliver Twist.”
•Oliver Twist who had been orphan.
• who sold out a child labor.
• the recruitment of children as criminals, and the
presence of street children.
•The novel may have been inspired by the story of
Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of
hardships as a child labourer in a cotton mill was
widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's
own early youth as a child labourer contributed to
the story's development.
7. “Oliver Twist to FAGIN.”
• Orphan fell into bad
company.
•Oliver follows Dodger to
the "old gentleman's"
residence. In this way,
Oliver unwittingly falls in
with an infamous Jewish
criminal known as Fagin.
9. “THE WORKHOUSE in the Oliver Twist.”
The budgets allocated to the workhouses were
very small and there was a great deal of
corruption among the people who ran them.
Many in the workhouses went hungry, while the
managers grew fat on the money they received.
People of all ages, including children as young as
four or five years old, had to work long hours
twisting rope or breaking rocks. The dreaded
workhouses were more like prisons and labor
camps than any form of social care.
11. “CHILD PICK-POCKETING.”
In Oliver Twist the sly character known as The
Artful Dodger, who introduces him to an old man by
name of Fagin.
There were adult criminals who organized gangs
of children to work for them as 'pick-pockets.' Pick-
pockets were people who by cunning and guile,
stole small goods - coins, jewellary, watches and so
on - literally from the pockets and purses of people
on the crowded London streets.
13. Conclusion:-
In Oliver Twist, Dickens mixes grim realism with
merciless satire to describe the effects of
industrialism on 19th-century England and to
criticize the harsh new Poor Laws.
Oliver, an innocent child, is trapped in a world
where his only options seem to be the workhouse,
Fagin's gang, a prison, or an early grave.
14. In the midst of corruption and degradation, the
essentially passive Oliver remains pure-hearted, he
steers away from evil when those around him give
in it In the midst of corruption and degradation,
the essentially passive Oliver remains pure-
hearted, he steers away from evil when those
around him give in to it, and in proper fairy-tale
fashion, he eventually receives his reward – leaving
for a peaceful life in the country, surrounded by
kind friends. On the way to this happy ending,
Dickens explores the kind of life an outcast, orphan
boy could expect to lead in 1830s London.
In this way we can say that ‘Oliver Twist’ has
Twisted History of the Victorian literature.
