Themes Of Oliver Twist
The novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a tale of a young
orphan boy who enters this world, according to Dickens as an “it”.
For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and
trouble by the parish surgeon it remained a matter of considerable
doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all;
in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs
would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised
within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable
merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography,
extant in the literature of any age or country ...
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fairy tales, everything
will work out for the boy or girl who has a rough life as long as they do
what is right. This is fits Oliver perfectly, he almost wasn't even given
a name, and in the beginning it was almost inevitable that he would end up
a street rat, than as he went through life learning what was right or wrong
things feel into place for him, and it was a happy ending.
As the boy Oliver Twist was born his mother died, and he was left
with no family, and was sent to go through life “despised by all, and
pitied by none” (Dickens 22). As a young boy Twist is sent to a juvenile
home, and then to a workhouse. Dickens portrayal of Oliver's childhood
homes is of violence, mistreatment, deliberate starvation, and helplessness.
Dickens was obviously not a fan of the law, or what went on behind the
closed doors of these work houses. One day as Oliver attempts to get more
food he is turned down, and then he is apprenticed to Mr. Sowerberry.
During his apprenticeship Oliver meets ...
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in his
writing. In Oliver Twist Dickens strongly expresses his feelings of
society, and the poor law of the time. “His personal interest in the
matter and the personal relationship he feels towards the readers combine
in encouraging him to be insistent” (Hayens 16). It may not be obvious the
way he does this, but in the novel you can see the way that he describes
Oliver's cell when he was imprisoned for stealing Mr. Brownlow's
handkerchief.
In our station-houses, men and women are every night confined
on the most trivial charges-the word is worth noting-in dungeons,
compared with which, those in Newgate, occupied by the most
atrocious felons, tried, ...
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