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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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