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💮 About novel:
" Oliver Twist " was first published in1837 in serial format, in Bently's Miscellany, Dickens editing at the time. This novel about one child's life. Dickens describes institutional life of people in this novel. Oliver has main character of this novel. "Oliver Twist" is the story a young orphan , Olivier. Dickens describes reality of the massive law class poor people at the period of Victorian.
⭐ The construction of identity and social influence:
"Oliver Twist " is a novel that evades easy categorization; what begins as a political satire of the 1834. Poor law parphs into a detective novel . Which in turn becomes a melodramatic thriller with a surprisingly tidy ending. Charles Dickens given this idea in this novel. While Dickens juggles contrasting tones in many of his novels, as one of his earlier works. "Oliver Twist" has been particularly noted for consisting of " a patchwork of genres." It is nour prise for a novel. But stories of identity crises and issues of idedent . We can understandings of the social message of this novel. Rests upon the way in which Dickens frames identity for this novel. We can seem to social massage like " Poor are not inherently morally inferior ." Dickens presents an ambivalent picture of the nature of identity. Dickens presents elements of socially constructed and crowd identity. While also reconciling this with ideas of innate goodness and morality.
Perhaps the most well- known cultural staple from Oliver Twist is anonymous hero. He has always become synonymous with our ideas of the orphan. And also projection of an ' Orphan.' So that presented critiqued view on this novel. Another like Oliver due to his parentless, law - socio- economic status. We can see the first chapter of this novel. Oliver has not yet been clothed that he is free from constraints of social identity. Dickens said that in this novel, " He might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar. " This sentence suggests that view on class identity.
Social identity is illustrated by how easy it is for one character to adopt another id8. Nancy's adoption of middle class. But her identity is prostitute. Of all the characters in this novel so Nancy who is perhaps the most complex. And she is symbol of Victorian standard. And also immoral woman . Most of the characters in this novel fall in to a label of either good and evil or comic. So Nancy represent tgis labels.
Dickens give the argues of against the notion that people are inherently. And mixture of social and economic stances lead those to crime . We can see the best example of Oliver's character. So Oliver's identity is inherent identity and the resolution of the novel. When Oliver said ," Please sir , I want some more." So this sentence suggests painful life of Oliver and painful of his identity. And we can understand identity of the middle class people.
⭐ Fagin and Anti- stereotypes:
In English novel, Jewish characters have been routinely described as greedy, nitpicking and stingy miser. They are usually but not always merchants. Money lenders, or bill brokers- shylock from " The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare. Issac for Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott and Fagin from " Oliver Twist." Among other Jewish characters are the most example of such radical and cultural stereotypes.
Dic5 Archetypal jew, Lauriat Lane makes several arguments. So Dicken follow to the "anti- semitic tradition in English literature. " by making the villainous character from 'Oliver Twist.' So Fagin character compared with Jew. Fagin as Jew. " In no way free from the general attitude and prejudice of his age." Lane Claims that Dickens's Jewish character has basis in reality. He is certain true for that he mentioned in the preface to "Oliver Twist" , Dickens aim focus in realistic way.
" to draw a know of such associates in crime as really did exist… to show them as they really were." And character of Fagin in this novel so Fagin as a pure realistic study of Jewishness. Dickens wrote to Mrs. Eliza Davis, of Fagin , "that class of criminal almost invisibly was a Jew." In the Victorian era, anti- semitic attitude was recognized as a social convention. Jews are generally treated with injustice. " Dickens shows himself in to way free from the general attitude and prejudice of his age."
⭐ The Ultimate problem of evil in "Oliver Twist. "
Dickens's "Oliver Twist" , which ultimately celebrates a protagonist joinery from innocence. To expression and best example of Oliver's innocence. Dickens presents two dimensions of evil in Oliver's world. Through the character of Fagin is selfishman and Fagin traint of the Oliver Fagin's criminality is selfishness. And Oliver believe on Fagin's idea. Oliver search of the self- serving goal.
After the Oliver back in to the chasms the his dreadful crimes , the monstrous Fagin creeps out in to " a maze of the mean and dirty streets. " so we can see the joung outcast in a life of crime.Fagin personality is humanity's evil. Dickens employs images of confinement and hopelessness in describing the Jew's odious headquarters of evil. " It was a very dirty place. In all the room, the mouldering shutters were fast closed. The bars which held them were Screwed tight into the wood: the only light which was admitted stealing its way through round holes at the top: which made the rooms more gloomy and filled them with strange shadows. The darkness of Fagin life suggests many ideas. The darkness of Fagib's lair extends the image of the harsh prison of Bumbles workhouse from which Oliver escaped." Dickens satire on the situation of the poor caused and poor laws. Dickens's language very mouldring , "closed" , " gloomy" and " strange Shadows." So this word create a sense of criminal thought and situation of society at large.
⭐Oliver Twist is gender- based inequality:
We can see the women in lower social classes. For example character of Nancy. But also the stereotypes placed on the action of women in the upper class. Dickens is one of the first paint create women situation. And all time women is not capable of some thought process. But his female characters with an attitude of change from their role.
Gender inequality in Oliver Twist cannot be discussed without raising the adjacent issues of social inequality. We can see the upper class women were not treated as equal to the men in their lies. So. Received an education and also spoken to with some level of respect.
Dickens describes the prostitution in this novel. So thiz issues is basic in society. Dickens was no stranger to prostitution and the issue that revolted around it but it is not normal thinking. Because it is a way of being a customer. And only responsible for society. " problem's associated with prostitution. " so this is the reasonably assures some balance in his writing.Charles Dickens represent One of the marriages' s factor. That Dickens describes is the marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble. Though Victorian men were typically expected to lead their wives, Mrs. Bumble leads Mr. Bumble. Mrs. Bumble attempts to use emotion as a weapon to gain power over her husband. This is seen when Mr. Bumble brings up Mrs. Bumble's previous husband who passed away. He says to her,
Your late unfortunate husband should have taught it you; and then perhaps, he might have been alive now. I wish he was, poor man!
Through this, he not only brings up a depressing topic (the death of her husband), but he also insults her by implying that he (Mr. Bumble) would rather not be married to her.
She immediately retaliates to his mean words through a display of emotion:
She dropped into a chair, and with a loud scream that Mr. Bumble was a hard-hearted brute, fell into a paroxysm of tears.
⭐ Dickens's view on this novel : "Oliver Twist ":
In writing Oliver Twist Dickens will doubtless have been trying to draw his readers' attention to the plight of the most unfortunate members of society. In particular, he will have been keen to expose the cruelty of the workhouse system, which trapped some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in society in lives of unimaginable poverty.
The workhouse system had been set up to crack down on public vagrancy, and though it was generally successful in achieving this aim, it did nothing to deal with the causes of poverty. As Oliver Twist discovers to his cost, workhouses were often places of misery and exploitation, where desperate people were treated like common criminals simply because they were poor.
Dickens was all too aware of the fact that most people in Britain at that time believed that the poor only had themselves to blame for their troubles. In writing Oliver Twist , then, he aimed to challenge this long-standing prejudice.When the little Oliver makes it safely into life, the doctor hands the baby to his mother, who kisses him, and dies. For the next year, Oliver is "brought up by hand" in a "systematic course of treachery and deception as the parish authorities "farmed out" the orphans.
Conclusion:
In short, Dickens represent many ideas. When i read this book. So i have got many ideas. Identity is the most important in our life. Another ideas like selfishness not good for life. And reality of human nature. Poor people always struggling in life. But some solutions not come. So this novel represent the situation of Victorian time.
⭐Reference:
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👉《4》 "How does Charles Dickens represent marriage in Oliver Twist?" eNotes Editorial, 21 Feb. 2009, https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/how-does-charles-dickens-represent-marriage-oliver-65877. Accessed 8 Mar. 2020.
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