Cultural Values Of Knowledge In Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

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Literature, readers and context (culture), the three research keys that shape knowledge. This knowledge is acquired by having the ability to suggest, deduce and interpret. In the process of this interaction, an English learner is met with a set of decoded textual lines that have a specific language ‘English’. The learner may lack to identify what the point is discussed in. For that, context is the needed piece to solve the puzzle. The question of whether to contextualize or texualize leads to a diversion in ideas, different theories were put into practice to synthesize the ideas in certain literary works. Moreover, in some cases, those texts hold a unique beliefs or ideologies. Learners are facing a more complex situation in which more …show more content…

Thus our aim is to analyze it to in order to detect and answer the major questions related to the study; to investigate how Charles Dickens’ ideology reflects his writing. In addition to that to seek how Dickens‘cultural values of Victorian are represented in Oliver Twist. Our study focuses mainly on the thematic feature and how the social values during 19 century exists and portrays in the novel referring mainly on social factors that influence Dickens’ experience, such as politics, economy, and social aspects in which we identify the real conditions at that …show more content…

To what extent can the reader’s cultural background foster the comprehension and interpretation Oliver Twist novel? Purpose of the study By presenting the significance of the prior knowledge especially the cultural schemata in reading comprehension.. Ultimately, our aim is to shed the beam on the importance of cultural knowledge in understanding and interpreting literary text to achieve high comprehension for the novel. Aim of the Study The objectives for conducting this study: To evaluate the extent to which cultural background can help in interpreting Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. To encourage readers to consider the cultural aspects in reading a literary text in order to increase their personal cultural awareness. Research Hypothesis Based on the research question mentioned above, we state the following hypothesis: The Victorian values have an impact on the cultural aspects introduced in” Oliver Twist” and the reader’s prior knowledge. Cultural Schemata enhance and increase the comprehension of the literary text.

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