1. Gender comparison of the
Authors of
‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘Middle March’
(Victorian Novelists)
-By Poojaba Jadeja
MKBU

2. Introduction
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Middle March
Mary Anne Evans
George Eliot

3. comparison
• Dickens wrote about
social issues like, child
labour, thieves...
• Story of a child
• Theme of child labour
and social problems
• Mary Anne Evan wrote
about human general
life
• Story of different
characters, mainly
Dorothea-woman
• Theme of marriage,
familiar story

4. Comparison
• As a mail Dickens shows
problems of society
• He present struggle for
getting family as for
security
• Struggle with social evils
• Different character of
society
• As a female Mary Anne
Evans wrote on family life
• She shows story of
marriage
• Idealism and fail idealism
in characters life (in
marriage)
• House hold characters
are major

5. Comparison
• Study of society, lower
middle class society,
social evils.
• Very realistic picture of
Victorian society.
• Like old Hindi movies
• Close study of human
nature and every day
life.
• Real but sometimes
artificial world.
• Like evergreen
television serials

6. What do you think?
What is better?
Close Study of human life
or
issues of society?
Whom you like more?
Why?