Oliver twist compare with movie

1. Comparison between
“OliverTwist” &
“Slumdog Millionaire”
NAME:-VIDHYA PANDYA SEM:- 2
E-MAIL ID :- vidhupandya10497@gmail.com
Paper No:- 6VICTORIAN LITERATURE.

2. Charles
Dickens
●Charles John Huffam
Dickens was an English
writer and Social critic.
●He created some of
the world’s best known
fictional characters & is
regarded by many as
the greatest novelist of
theVictorian era.
●The 20th century critics
& scholars had
recognised him as a
literary genius.
●His novels & short
stories are still wildly
read today.

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◆ His Notable Works:-
1. Bleak House
2. David Copperfield
3. Great Expectations
4. OliverTwist
5. Dombey and Son
6. ATale of two cities
7. Little Direct
8. A Christmas Carol
9. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
10.HardTimes.

4. About Novel
● OliverTwist is Charles Dickens 2nd novel.
● Originally published in 1839.
● Original title :- OliverTwist OR ‘The Parish
Boy’s Progress’.
● Genres:- Novel, Fiction, Social novel.
● Story centres on orphan OliverTwist , born in a
workhouse & sold into apprenticeship with an
undertaker.
● OliverTwist is notable for its unromantic
portrayal by Dickens of criminal & their sordid
lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment
of many orphans in London in the mid 19th
century.

5. Background
of Novel
● In this social novel,
Dickens satirises the
hypocrisies of his time,
including child labour,
●The recruitment of
children as criminals &
the presence of street
children.
●The novel was the 1st of
the author’s works to
realistically depict the
impoverished LONDON
underworld and to
illustrate his belief that
poverty leads to crime.

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● Dickens details the mistreatment &
exploitation of poor children in the
workhouses, an institution that was
supposedly doing good by keeping children
off the streets of England.
● He wrote a successful commentary on
Victorian Society & the hypocrisy that was
rampant at the time.

7. Slumdog
Millionaire
Background
● Slumdog Millionaire
is a 2008 British-
Indian drama film that
is a loose adaptation
of novel Q & A by
Indian authorVIKAS
SWARUP.
●The film is a rags-to-
riches story of Salim...
& Jamal Malik , an 18
years old tea-servant
from the Juhu slums
of Mumbai.

8. Background
of Film
● Although the portrayal of the lives in urban
slums is the complementary nature of the film.
●The film’s story is an orphan from the slum
ends up raising exceptional global awareness on
the issue of poverty.
●The major backlash against the film cites the
use of the coined term “Slumdog” by the slum
dwellers, the welfare and compensation of the
child actors
●The Anti-Hindu sentiments depicted on
screen.
● An unrealistic setting of grown-up Jamal
speaking fluent English and a happy ending
which wouldn’t happen in the real world.

9. Comparison
between
Oliver &Jamal
OliverTwist
● In this novel Oliver is
the hero or main
protagonist.
● Coming from poor
background and
orphan.
● Seeking for better
life Oliver went to
LONDON.
● Mr. Brownlow helps
him.
Slumdog
Millionaire
● Here Jamal is the main
protagonist .
● Also coming from poor
background and orpahn.
● Seeking for better ways
of living life, he is doing
job in the XL5 Mobile
phone call center.
● He also went to theTV
game-show.
● HereTV game-show
provides a great
opportunity for better life.

10. Conclusion
● So, here we can see that in the Novel
“OliverTwist” and the film “Slumdog
Millionaire” both characters Oliver and
Jamal had a happy ending but in the real
world it’s not possible and sometimes it’s
happen rarely in the world.

11. Thank-you