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Oliver Twist (1837)

Themes:

City Vs Countryside

Fate

Thievary and Crime

Good Vs Evil

Poor People Were Treated Badly

Setting

London at three social levels

Victorian Middle classes

criminal world

workhouses

Plot

In the end the gang was arrested

He had a noble origin

Mr Brownlow (victim) took his home

got into a gang of thives

run away from London

asked for more food so was sent out of the workhouse

born from unknown parents

reflects the childhood of the author

Style

Melodrama

Great use of suspence

hyperbolic and ironic remarks

repetition of words

juxtapositions of images

effective language

powerful descriptions

Characters

aim?

to make the ruling classes aware of the problems

acquired knowledge about porrer neighbours

Children so important

moral teachers

On the side of the poor people

Upper middle classes

exaggerating his characters habits

18th century realistic

Works:

1870= Mistery of Edwin Drood

1864= Our Mutual Friend

1860 = Great Expectations

1858= A tale of two cities

1855= Little Dorrit

1853= Hard Times

1852 = Bleak house

1851 = What Christmas is as we get older

1849= David Copperifield

1846= Dombey and son

1844= Christmas Carol

1842= Martin Chuzzlewit

1841= Barnaby Rudge

1840= Old Curiosity Shop

1838= Nicholas Nickleby

1837= first instalments of O.Twist

1836 = Pickwick papers

Biography

(1812-1870) during Victorian Age (1837-1901)

1867 = 2 american tour

1853 = first public reading of his works

1842-44-46= travelled to USA, Italy, Switzerland

1836 = married Catherine hogarth

1832 = began to work as a reporter

Studied in a school of London for boys

1824 = Sent to a factory