Violence In Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

caused a vast immigration of the people from the village and farm to spreading new factory towns .”3. Fear of unemployment and starvation has led workers to toil under inhuman working conditions at law wages . Industrialism has brought wealth and prosperity to the country , but at the same time has widened the gab between the rich who have become richer and the poor who have become poorer . p33 There has been a wide gulf between the poor and the wealthy classes , and exposing and ' ' narrowing it constituted the great challenge of the time ."4 p34

Some novelists , like Dickens have revealed the world of the poor class in his novels and p2 reinforced his novels with “ factual details [ that ] .. really shocked the novel readers .”5 of their

These elements justify the use of a term like the 'Macabre '6 which in that they suggest death or lead to it .

Dickens 's penetration into the world of violence is sustained throughout his literary career . Violence in Dickens occurs on two levels – an individual level and what may be termed as a level of " collective violence " – the latter being a feature of Dickens 's ' historical ' novels . Oliver Twist is not a tale about little child Oliver but about the world which is indifferent or that it contains a threat to his life and that which is good in him . He feels that social institutions are corrupt and he experiences for the first time the destructive impact of the world he so innocently has entered . The balance which Dickens has achieved between the ' dark ' and the ' light ' sides of the world in Oliver Twist is not to be seen , where darkness dominates the cruel city and the underwold is shown as being more organized and powerful than the forces of law and goodness

He depicts the anxieties of the time and the insecurity and snobbery steaming from the ambiguities of rank and wealth at a time of perpetual and rapid social change . It is concerned with those social problems arising from industrialization and urbanization .

Dickens approach in his novels , the impact of change on a society that is striving to adjust itself to new conditions . This idea of ' change ' however , links in the novelists ' minds with a sense of puzzled perplexity . Dickens , has felt as if he was caught between the pull of nostalgia and the urge of the new life and this sense of division , of belonging to two ages , has given rise to novels describing social change . Dickens 's views of charity workhouses and the poor help have not varied and they cohere in 1865 with his views depicted twenty seven years earlier in Oliver Twist . In this novel he reflects the same dark vision of these places compared to which , death seems to be a