Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Every age is an age of progress as well regress also. Charles Dickens very well represents the darker side of the Victorian time. Though there was progress but deep down there was a tremendous criminal era developing. In the present time, if the writer writes something like this then the books are banned. It must be a matter of courage for a writer to highlight the defects during that time. Let’s see something about this in brief.

Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens and was first published as a serial 1837–39.

The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin.

Though being in the company of criminals, Oliver is a good boy. We can say that Oliver is a lotus between the mud.

Dickens mostly has a child protagonist to represent the reality. So that the reality can be seen with a smile of face rather than being very serious.

We can also see in this text exploitation of women.

The attempt to write this kind of work is not to insult own country, but it for the betterment of the country. Alas! Many times the sentiments are so weak that people don’t understand the real essence. We can never improve unless we work on our faults.

The famous line from this text is:-

Themes related with this text:-

· THE FAILURE OF CHARITY

· THE FOLLY OF INDIVIDUALISM

· PURITY IN A CORRUPT CITY

· THE COUNTRYSIDE IDEALIZED

Reference:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oliver/themes.html

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