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    Charles Dickens was an English writer in the Victorian era known for his novels and social criticism. One of his most famous works, Oliver Twist, tells the story of an orphan born in a workhouse who endures cruel conditions. He is later taken in by thieves and pickpockets in London, but is eventually rescued by kind benefactors. The novel depicts the inhumanity of the capitalist system and conditions faced by the poor and oppressed in Victorian England through the story of Oliver's struggles.

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    Charles Dickens was an English writer in the Victorian era known for his novels and social criticism. One of his most famous works, Oliver Twist, tells the story of an orphan born in a workhouse who endures cruel conditions. He is later taken in by thieves and pickpockets in London, but is eventually rescued by kind benefactors. The novel depicts the inhumanity of the capitalist system and conditions faced by the poor and oppressed in Victorian England through the story of Oliver's struggles.

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    Charles Dickens was an English writer in the Victorian era known for his novels and social criticism. One of his most famous works, Oliver Twist, tells the story of an orphan born in a workhouse who endures cruel conditions. He is later taken in by thieves and pickpockets in London, but is eventually rescued by kind benefactors. The novel depicts the inhumanity of the capitalist system and conditions faced by the poor and oppressed in Victorian England through the story of Oliver's struggles.

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    Charles Dickens was an English writer in the Victorian era known for his novels and social criticism. One of his most famous works, Oliver Twist, tells the story of an orphan born in a workhouse who endures cruel conditions. He is later taken in by thieves and pickpockets in London, but is eventually rescued by kind benefactors. The novel depicts the inhumanity of the capitalist system and conditions faced by the poor and oppressed in Victorian England through the story of Oliver's struggles.

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    Oliver

    Twist Presentation

    By Oana Sîrbu
    Author

    • Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June


    1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created
    some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is
    regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian
    era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during
    his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars
    had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and
    short stories are widely read today.
    • 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 the hands of a gang of
    thieves.
    • The head is the old Jew Fagin, and other chief members are the burglar Bill
    Sikes, his mistress Nancy, and “the Artful Dodger”, an impudent young
    pickpocket. Every effort is made to convert Oliver into a thief.He is temporarily
    rescued by the benevolent Mr. Brownlow, but kidnapped by the gang, whose
    interest in his retention has been increased by the offers of a sinister person
    named Monks, who has a special interest in Oliver's 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
    • Nancy, who develops some redeeming traits, reveals to Rose that Monks
    knows Oliver's parentage, and wishes all proof of it destroyed, and that there is
    some relationship between Oliver and Rose herself. Inquiry is set on foot. In the
    course of it Nancy's action is discovered by the gang, and she is brutally
    murdered by Bill
    • A hue and cry is raised; Sikes, trying to escape, accidentally hangs
    himself, and the rest of the gang are secured. Fagin is executed. Monks,
    found and threatened with exposure, confesses what remains unknown.
    He is the half-brother of Oliver.

    • 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
    prison. Bumble ends his career in the workhouse over which he formerly
    ruled
    • The plot has been criticized to be improbable: throughout the novel,
    there are too many happy coincidences to be believable. And the
    characters are described to be unconvincing, too: Fagin and Bill Sikes
    are too inhuman to be true, while the rich Mr. Brownlow and Miss Maylie
    are vaguely pictured as benevolent and good; Oliver himself is a pale
    figure who seems to be ever the helpless victim of fate.

    • As a realist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of city


    life under capitalism in Oliver Twist.In the first eleven chapters, he
    bitterly and thoroughly exposes the terrible conditions in the English
    workhouse of the time and the cruel treatment of a poor orphan by all
    sorts of “philanthropists.”
    • In the description of the thieves' den and of the under-world of London, the
    author succeeds in calling forth the reader's sympathy for the down-trodden
    people of the lower classes. They are degraded and corrupted by the social
    environment of the time, either climb up to be parasites or oppressors or fall to
    be victims of society or even criminals.
    • The happy ending of the Oliver Twist's life shows Dickens's optimistic belief in
    the inevitable triumph of good over evil. It also shows that Dickens' belief that the
    social problem would be settled if only every employer followed the example set
    by good gentlemen like Brownlow.
    • The famous scene in Chapter II, which is selected here, is only one of the
    details to show the extreme brutality and corruption of the oppressors and their
    agents. In this part, Oliver was beaten and punished merely because he ventured
    to ask for an extra portion of gruel to alleviate his intolerable hunger. It is in
    scenes like this that we see the great critical realist voicing the helpless
    sufferings of the poor and oppressed.
    Bibliography

    • https://slideplayer.com/slide/4288063/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
    • https://view.genial.ly/6056f16bc256890d06ab2231/presentation
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