This document summarizes and analyzes Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist" through a macabre lens of Victorian childhood. It defines macabre as having death or violence as a subject. It notes Dickens portrayed the macabre childhood experiences of many Victorian orphans, with Fagin corrupting children into thieves by providing a false sense of home and family. The document discusses how Dickens highlighted issues like child labor, abuse, starvation and the managers of workhouses viewing children as mere labor. It concludes Dickens accurately portrayed the miserable macabre reality orphan children faced in Victorian England.

1. ‘Oliver Twist’ as the Macabre of
Childhood.
Paper 6: The Victorian Literature
Student’s Name: Kaushal Desai
Class: M.A. English
Sem: 2
Roll No. : 13
Submitted To: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University

2. What is Macabre?
• Having death as a subject.
• things that involve the horror of death
or violence.
• A story involves lots of blood and gore.

3. Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens shows The
Victorian England
The time of “Oliver Twist”

4. Macabre of childhood in ‘Oliver Twist’
• Dickens presents a portrait of the macabre
childhood of a considerable number of Victorian
orphans.
• Fagin, a devil figure, corrupts all the children he
meets, making them work as thieves in exchange
for a macabre sense of 'the home' and 'the
family'.

5. Dickens’ concepts
• Child labor
• Child abasement

6. “were very sage, deep, philosophical men”
~ Managers of the workhouse
“The wily old Jew had the boy in his toils; and, having
prepared his mind by solitude and gloom to prefer any
society to the companionship of his own sad thoughts in
such a dreary place, was now slowly instilling into his soul
the poison which he hoped would blacken it and change
its hue for ever.” (18.58)

7. Boys treated as a labor and starving for
needy stomach

8. “tortures of slow starvation”

11. Conclusion
♀ Charles Dickens’ portray of character and a
situation of Orphan child in the Victorian era is
highlighted very properly
In which orphan child, a deadly way to go every
misery comes in their way “It’s a already a
macabre of childhood”

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