Essays on Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is a novel that evades easy categorisation; what begins as a political satire of the 1834 Poor Law morphs into a detective novel which in turn becomes a melodramatic thriller with a surprisingly tidy ending. While Dickens juggles contrasting tones in many of...

In what is arguably his best known work, Charles Dickens addresses the blatant gender inequality that ran rampant in the 1800s. Oliver Twist confronts the disheartening public view of not only women in lower social classes, like Nancy, but also the stereotypes placed on the...

Charles Dickens’, Oliver Twist, recounts the tale of Oliver Twist, an orphan boy born in a workhouse. He spends the first nine years in a home and is then transferred to the workhouse where his mother gave birth to him and died soon after. At...

Charles Dickens is an English writer whose fame started in the Victorian age. It is important to note that this age was an age of democracy, in which all the writers, including Dickens, vigorously attack materialism. In other words, they criticize the age through their...

I myself am the kind of book/film aficionado that follows suit, meaning that I will only watch/read a certain film/ book if I know that it receives favorable reviews. And based on my research, I am confident to conclude that Oliver Twist is hailed as...

One of the remarkable books by Charles Dickens was his first novel, Oliver Twist that tried to paint the picture of his beliefs on how poverty may cause one to perform atrocious acts. He captures the image of penurious London netherworld. The novel focuses on...

In English novels, Jewish characters have been routinely described as greedy, nit-picking, and stingy misers. They are usually but not always merchants, money lenders, or bill brokers—Shylock from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Isaac from Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, and Fagin from...

Oliver Twist is a criticism of the society in which Charles Dickens lived. The book directly criticized the Poor Laws and attempted to inspire readers of the middle and upper classes to improve the intolerable conditions in which Dickens himself had been raised. Through the...

In writing Oliver Twist, it is clear that Charles Dickens’s main literary objective was to expose the plight of the poor in Victorian London. The story of Oliver is comparable to other Victorian novels, such as Jane Eyre, in its strong didactic message regarding the...

Dickens’ Oliver Twist , which ultimately celebrates a protagonist who journeys from innocence to experience without capitulating to the evil forces that hinder his progress, addresses the pervasive problem of evil in society and human nature. Dickens presents two dimensions of evil in Oliver’s world...

“Bad words don’t exist, but words with bad intentions behind” – Roberto Fontanarrosa The characters, plot, setting, action, and content are all important elements of a drama play. There are characters that dominate and make every single drama, play, film or any form of literature...