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1.  Name :- Goswami Mahirpari C.
 Roll no :- 21
 Paper name :- The Victorian Literature
 Topic name :- Oliver Twist major theme and how to
words Bollywood movie seen the orphanage and
pickpocketing
 Submitted to :- Department of English
 E - mail :- goswamimahirpari786@gmail.com
 Enrollment no :- 20691084201180021

2.  Notable works
 A Christmas Carol
 David Copperfield
 A Tale of Two Cities
 Oliver Twist

3.  Oliver Twist; or, the
Parish Boy's Progress is
author Charles Dickens's
second novel, and was
first published as a serial
1837– 39. The story
canters on orphan Oliver
Twist, born in a
workhouse and sold into
apprenticeship with an
undertaker.

4.  "Society and Class" is one of the central themes of
most Dickens novels.
 In Oliver Twist, Dickens often shows how superficial
class structures really are—at the core, everyone’s
really the same, regardless of the social class into
which they’re born.

5.  Workhouses, filthy quarters, despair: Dickens is very
concerned with showing just how miserable the
lower classes really were in 19th Century London.

6.  Oliver Twist was hugely popular, but Dickens
definitely had a point to make: he wanted to show
how criminals really lived, in order to discourage
poor people from turning to crime. He also wanted
to show how external influences created criminal
behavior as much or more than natural criminal
urges.

7.  The whole parish system was responsible for
maintaining workhouses, orphanages, and baby
farms.
 Organized, institutionalized religion—especially the
Church of England—gets in this novel. Dickens was
Anglican himself.

8.  As much as Dickens wants to show how external
influences turn people into criminals, the emphasis
on fate in Oliver Twist seems to undermine that
idea. How much free will does anyone have? Or is
everyone just trapped in the systems of social class
and religion, and unable to make any independent
choices?

9.  This novel is all about mistaken identities. Many
characters don't know where their parents are, or
even who their parents are.
 The result is a weird disconnect between the way
Oliver sees himself, and the way the world around
him views him. Which is the real Oliver? The
innocent boy or the hardened criminal?