In the present time many people know about the new poor low through the Oliver twist and also through the films and music. We all know that Oliver is one orphan boy who grow in the Workhouse. In the novel Charles Dickens who described the real situation of at that times Workhouse.

2. ● Name : Rita Dabhi
● Sem :2
● Roll no. : 20
● Enrollment no. : 2069108420200007
● Paper : Victorian literature
● Topic : Oliver Twist and The workhouse
● Submitted : Department of English
MKB University
● Batch : 2019-2021
● Email : dabhirita1198@gmail.com

3. Charles Dickens
● Born : 7 February 1812
● Died: 9 June 1870
● English writer and social critic and journalist
● Despite his lack of formal education, he
edited weekly journal for 20 years, wrote
15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of
short stories and nonfiction articles.
● He is very famous for his humor , satire, and
keen observation of character and society.

4. Oliver Twist
❏ First published in monthly installment between February 1837 and April
1839.
❏ Orphan Oliver Twist born in a workhouse, and sold into apprenticeship
with an undertaker.
❏ After escaping Oliver travel to London where he meet fagin.
❏ The novel notable for its unromantic portrayal of criminals and there
sordid lives, exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London
in the middle 19th century.
❏ The novel satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour,
the recruitment of children as criminal, the presence of street
children .

5. Oliver Twist and The Workhouse

6. ➢ Poor Law and the Workhouse
➢ Oliver has the termirity to ask more food.

7. The famous illustration by George Cruikshank

8. The New Poor Law
● The Poor Law amadment Act of 1834,
otherwise known as the “New” Poor Law,
establish the Workhouse system.
● Instead of providing a refuse for the elderly
sick and poor, and instead of providing food
or clothing in exchange for work in times of
high unemployment, workhouse were
become a surt of prison system.

9. ● The government intention was to slash expenditure on poverty by
setting up a cruelly regime.
● The Group of parishes called Law of Unions
● Although centrally controlled through the Poor Law Board - each
workhouse was administrated locally.
● Deccan shows that the administration was run by self satisfied
and heartless man in the white waistcoat’ personifies the smug
viciousness of the guardians in Oliver twist.

10. Dickens’s personal experience
❏ He understood that accident of birth or circumstances could make
ordinary individual vulnerable to desperation, hunger, cruelty and crime.
❏ Dickens family had also twice lived only door from a memory London
Workhouse , so he had most likely seen and hard of many sorrowful
things.
❏ Is an adult, Dickens knew that he himself had been fortunate to avoid a
fate like Oliver Twist.

11. Dickens’s inspiration
➢ He use locality of the Cleveland Street Workhouse in his writing.
➢ For Exa. - Oliver’s cap is described borrow cloth and also Boy’s
uniform.
➢ Well established Pawnbroker’s shop stood at the top end of Norfolk
Street , diagonally between the Workhouse and the corner House in
which Dickens’s family were lodgers.

12. Oliver twist and the Workhouse

13. Works Cited
Richardson, Ruth. Discovering Literature : Romantic & Victorian. 15 May 2014. 26 February 2020
<https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/oliver-twist-and-the-workhouse>.