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Social Criticism
in Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is one of the greatest
Victorian writers well-known for his critical
realistic writing, but in different stages of his
writing, he revealed different ideas.
Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boys
Progress
the second novel by Charles Dickens
first published in installments between
1837–39
Content of the Novel
Oliver was born in a workhouse in 1830s
England;
spent the first nine years of his life in a
badly run home for young orphans;
transferred to a workhouse;
starved and sold to an undertaker to work
as an apprentice;
bullied there and then escaped to London;
fell into the hands of a gang of thieves
headed by the old Jew Fagin;
forced to steal in street;
rescued by kind-hearted gentleman Mr.
Brownlow;
forced to help in a burglary and badly
wounded;
brought back to health by Mrs. Maylie and
Rose;
identity revealed and happy end
Social Criticism
In Oliver Twist, Dickens showed the
inhumanity of city life of his time. E.g. The
first 11 chapters provide a most bitter and
thoroughgoing exposure of the terrible
conditions in the English workhouse of the
time and the cruel treatment of a poor
orphan by all sorts of “philanthropists.”
Selected Reading from Chapter 2
Dickens used a very humorous way to
showed us the hungry state of the boys:
The bowls never wanted washing. The boys
polished them with their spoons till they
shone again; and when they had performed
this operation (which never took very long,
the spoons being nearly as large as the
bowls), they would sit staring at the copper,
with such eager eyes, as if they could have
devoured the very bricks of which it was
composed; employing themselves,
meanwhile, in sucking their fingers most
assiduously, with the view of catching up
any stray splashes of gruel that might have
been cast thereon.
Analysis
This part reveals the real
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