To show how Charles Dickens presents Good and Evil characters
In the beginning of the Victorian period many children (orphans) were
forced to turn to crime mainly because the children in the workhouse
were mistreated and abused. Another reason is many people were
migrating, which resulted to a growth in the population, which left
many children homeless. Charles Dickens has based his novel, 'Oliver
Twist' on this. He compares Oliver with what life was like for boys in
the 18th Century. Throughout the story Oliver encounters many evil
characters and a few virtuous characters. The evil characters try to
persuade him to lead the life of crime while as the good characters
save him and enable Oliver and the reader to learn that a life of
crime does not pay. Charles Dickens uses the novel to criticise how
children during Victorian times were forced to turn to crime when laws
did not protect them.
Dickens main character, Oliver, is presented as the 'hero' of the
story; he learns that goodness triumphs over evil. The incident in the
story where Oliver's goodness is shown is when Bill Sikes forces him
to rob Rose Maylie's house:
"Despite the threat, Oliver decided to warn the people in the house"
Even though Oliver is threatened to act out this evil deed, he chooses
to do the right thing by warning the owners of the house and risking
his own life. In doing so, Dickens shows that Oliver is a good
character through the choices Oliver makes.
Charles Dickens presents Mr Bumble as an evil character. At the start
of the story Dickens describes him as a "fat healthy man". While as
all the orphans are being starved, he is never going without. When
Oliver asks for more food, Mr Bumble:
"Aimed a blow at Oliver'...
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...liver (Monks was another
member of the gang) and began to weep saying:
'Please miss, don't come to any harm! I'd give my own life to save him.
Honest I would!'
Dickens has tried to emphasise the fact that in the Victorian Times
there weren't very strict laws, which meant there were a lot of very
bad people round at that time, but still some good left, and even
though Nancy was around very dangerous people she was a good person at
heart (that's why you have the proverb, 'don't judge a book by its
cover!). It also illustrates how good Nancy was, for her to tell Rose
everything, she must have been a very brave soul and must have loved
Oliver dearly to do such a kind thing. She knew Oliver didn't deserved
a better life ad didn't need to be pulled into a life as insecure as
her own. Dickens presents Nancy as a good person through her emotions
and actions.
Dickens' Use of Language and Structure to Build Up a Picture of the Joy of Christmas Present
I think that Charles Dickens message was to inform the rich, rude people to change their views on people that were underprivileged because they are poor it doesn’t mean that they are not human beings you treat them the same way just the way you would like to be treated. In the Victorian times if you were rich you were rich if you were poor you were poor nobody cared for each other. Dickens message in the Victorian Era was extremely important as Dickens tried to help the unfortunate ones by trying to change rich people’s scrutiny on them so they might help them in life.
notices that he is "a man with no hat", the sign of a lower class
“each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row
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can be seen in Oliver Twist, a novel about an orphan, brought up in a workhouse and poverty to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the upper class people. Oliver Twist shows Dickens' perspective of society in a realistic, original manner, which hope to change society's views by "combining a survey of the actual social scene with a metaphoric fiction designed to reveal the nature of such a society when exposed to a moral overview" (Gold 26). Dickens uses satire, humorous and biting, through pathos, and stock characters in Oliver Twist to pr...