Here this presentation concerns on the issue of child labor, macabre and effects of industrialization during the Victorian era.

1. MACABRE OF CHILDHOOD-
OLIVER TWIST
 Prepared by : KAVITABA P. GOHIL
 Roll No : 19
 Paper – 6 : THE VICTORIAN LITERATURE
 M.A (English) : Sem -2
 Enrollment No : 2069108420180018
 Batch : 2017-19
 Email : kavitabaprahaladsinhjigohil@gmail.com
 Submitted to : Smt .S. B Gardi, Department of English,
MK Bhavnagar University

2. ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD
Uncertain
Jean le Fèvre's
- Respit de la mort (1376)
Maccabees
Dance of Death

3. What is Macabre ?
• Involving death or violence in a way that is
strange, frightening, or unpleasant
• Murder and madness
• Presentation of tragic story
• lots of blood and gore
• Having grim of Ghastly atmosphere
• Produce horror in a beholder

4. Macabre of Childhood in Oliver Twist
• Representation of
Victorian Orphans
• Orphanage
• Workhouse
• Child labour

5. Torture of slow starvation

6. “ PLEASE SIR, I WANT SOME MORE”.

7. A Macabre sense of “The Home” &
“The Family”
• Bill Sikes• Fagin’s Gang

8. Conclusion...
• Charles Dickens very effectively portrayed
Victorian age through Oliver Twist, situation of
children; especially orphan and poor children
how they suffered from society, he also
highlighted some very important points like
child labour, child abasement etc...

10. References...
• https://www.merriam-
webster.com/dictionary/macabre
• http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition
/macabre
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macabre
• http://bhumijoshi2014-
16.blogspot.in/2015/03/study-of-victorian-
society-with.html