Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Analysis

Charles Dickens was one of the greatest novelists of Victoria Era. Throughout his life, he wrote 15 novels (one is unfinished) and crafted complex plots and striking characters that captured the panorama of English society. Meanwhile, owing to his own special experience, he kept his eyes on the real life of children and the poor. Known as the gladiator of the poor, he used his pen as weapon to severely criticize corruption and other dark dimensions of the society. Although UK witnessed a rapid development in Victoria Era, the poor, especially children still lived in bad condition. By creating these images, he hoped to bring more and more people to show concerns for children growth. While this thesis will give a brief introduction to Charles Dickens and his two typical works David Copperfield and Oliver Twist as well as historical background. Then, it

It is regarded as his autobiography because it gave us the most tantalizing insight into the life of Dickens himself. This book can be divided into two parts: David as a boy; David as the young man. The first part told the psychological change of David. David’s father dies six month before he is born. But his childhood was ull happiness and felicity with the companion of his beloved mother and a kind servant Peggotty. Suddenly, his idyll shattered as his mother remarried to Mr Murdstone, who was a cold, heartless man. And things got fairly terrible after the death of his mother. He was sent to work in a warehouse in London. David was miserable at the warehouse and decides to run away to live with his aunt Betsy. Fortunately, David aunt adopted him kindly. Betsy sent David to a school where he lodged with Betsy’s lawyer, Mr. Wickfield, his daughter, Agnes and Uriah