A Critical Analysis Of Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens was born on 7th February 1812 in England. In his career as a author he wrote classics like Oliver twist,A Christmas Carol and a few more. On june 9,1870 he died of a stroke in England. Oliver twist is written by Charles Dickens.oliver twist was a boy who was born in a small town near London and after few days his mom died.He was first sent to a orphanage and later to a work house, he was tortured in both of these places.Few days later he ran away to London. There he falls in to wrongs hands and he is taught pick pocketing,he is then accussed for a crime which he hasn’t committed and then he is beaten up, after which he meets a very good family and learns to read and write and at the end he also gets reunited with his old friend Child labour- Oliver twist was forced into poverty and was forced to work as a slave. Later he became the victim of jewish criminals as children were often sold to industries and factories during the Victorian era as they were often orphan or their parents couldnt afford their schooling and the money they use to earn was used to support their family although they use to earn less. Poverty- The economical environment shown in the novel is social gap. The majority of the city was very poor,everyone was forced to work. Many people worked and became rich but everyone wasn’t so lucky,Oliver twist Although superficially a Newgate novel--streetboy corrupted by urban gang into a life of crime--it is actually closer to that of the traditional gothic, with Oliver Twist taking the place of the menaced gothic heroine. Oliver is torn between men who wish to control him, often for their own selfish purposes, and it is the struggle between guardians and would-be guardians that gives the narrative of "Oliver Twist" its shape, in much the same way that such a struggle determined the narrative movement of "The Mysteries of

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