Topic :Oliver Twist as a Dark Novel

Name : Rabhadiya Vinod

Paper No : 6

Roll No : 34

Year : 2014-15

Semester : 2

Submitted To : M.K.Bhavnagar Uni.Bhavnagar

Oliver Twist an Orphan boy

Workhouse represents the darkness of English history

Oliver orphanage and he is shifted the workhouse for adults.

Children have to work childhood to Maturity

Main themes of the novel

• Born in a workhouse

• Oliver Twist as a figure of incongruity

• Enters into “” this world of • sorrow and trouble”

• All the boys complain of • having too little to eat.

• One of them threatens to eat• another boy.

• “Please, Sir, I want some more.”

The narrator sarcastically comments on the generosity and kindness of the workhouse authorities ,who offers

the poor the opportunity to starve slowly instead of starving quickly on the streets. Oliver and the boys with him suffer the “ Tortures of Slow Starvation”.

Fagin as a dark character

Once in London , it quickly becomes clear to the reader (but not to Oliver that the Dodger and his friends are an unsavory bunch. The old “gentleman Fagin trains kids to be pickpockets and then he sells off what they steal.

“The master criminal “ A very old shriveled Jew, whose villainous looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair “

Fagin, the master mind among the criminals ,is as ugly in appearance as he is repulsive in disposition. He is not ,however ,a figure of unmixed simplicity. In Fagin, Dickens has attempted to portray a character displaying some of the complexities of normal human nature.

When incensed ,the old man may succumb to savage rage ,but on ordinary occasions he indulges in a sardonic humor that earns him the sobriquet of “the merry old gentleman”

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