Extra Topic: Industrial

Revolution: Victorian
Period
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

4. Dickenss themes

Family, childhood
and poverty the
subjects to which he
returned time and
again.

Dickenss children A scene from Roman Polanskis Oliver Twist (2005)

are either innocent

or corrupted by
adults.
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Charles Dickens

4. Dickenss themes

Most of these children

begin in negative
circumstances and
rise to happy
endings which
resolve the
contradictions in A scene from Roman Polanskis Oliver Twist (2005)

their life created by

the adult world.

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 Oliver Twist
A Brief Introduction
Oliver Twist is a child of
unknown parentage
born in a workhouse
and brought up under
cruel conditions to
which pauper children
were formerly
exposed, the tyrant at
whose hands he
especially suffers
being Bumble, the
parish beadle. After
experience of an
unhappy
apprenticeship, he
runs away, reaches
London, and falls into
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 The head is the old
Jew Fagin, and other
chief members are the
burglar Bill Sikes, his
mistress Nancy, and
the Artful Dodger, He is temporarily
an impudent young rescued by the
pickpocket. Every benevolent Mr.
effort is made to Brownlow, but kidnapped
convert Oliver into a by the gang, whose
thief. interest in his retention
has been increased by
the offers of a sinister
person named Monks,
who has a special
interest in Oliver's
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perversion.
 Oliver is now made to
accompany Bill Sikes
on a burgling
expedition, in the
course of which he
receives a gun-shot
wound, and comes
into the hands of Mrs.
Maylie and Rose, by
whom he is kindly
treated and brought
up.

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 Fagin is executed.
A hue and cry is Monks, found and
raised; Sikes, trying to threatened with
escape, accidentally exposure, confesses
hangs himself, and the what remains
rest of the gang are unknown. He is the
secured. half-brother of Oliver.

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 He has pursued his
ruin, animated by
hatred and the desire
to retain the whole of
his father's property.
Rose is the sister of
Oliver's unfortunate
mother. Oliver is
adopted by Mr.
Brownlow Monks
emigrates and dies in Movie:
prison. Bumble ends
his career in the
workhouse over which
he formerly ruled
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Comparison between Oliver Twist &
Industrial Revolution (Social ills)
Oliver Twist Industrial Revolution

Child labour
Child labour
Powerlessness of child
Powerlessness of child
and women
and women
Class system
Class system
Poverty
Poverty
Social unrest
Social unrest