On National Teacher Day, meet the 2024-25 Kenan Fellows
Oliver Twist as the virtue of dehumanised society explain.
1. Name : Gond Asmita k.
Roll no : 1st
Paper : 6th ( The Victorian Literature)
Topic : Oliver Twist as the virtue of
Dehumanized society
P.G.Enrollment no : pg14101017
Year : 2014-15
Class :M.A. -1 , Sem--2
E-mail Id : asmita.gond414@gmail.com
Heenaba Zala
Submitted to : Department of English
M. K. Bhavnagar University
2. Introduction of Charles Dickens
• Charles Dickens was a prominent
writer of English literature
• Was Born on 7th February 1812 at a
house in Mile End
Terrace, Portsmouth, Hampshire
• His father, John Dickens, worked as a
clerk in the pay office of the Royal
Dockyard.
• Family moved to London in 1815
when John was posted there.
3. Oliver Twist the true literary piece as it
is , reflects the social condition of its
time.
4. Society of Victorian age
The Victorian era was a period full
of changes; the most important was
the reign of Queen Victoria, who
ascended the throne in 1837
and ruled the British Empire,
restoring stability to the crown. Her
reign is considered one of the most
prosperous in her
time, which eventually became the
symbol of a
period that took its name, "the Victo
rian Era"
5. Condition of workhouse
• T The condition of the
workhouse is very bad
Children were starved
and ill-treated
The workhouse were ill-
managed. They were
inadequate to help the
real poor.
Corrupt administrators
were at fault
The whole thing was
hypocrisy .
The condition of the
workhouse is very bad
Children were starved
and ill-treated
The workhouse were ill-
managed. They were
inadequate to help the real
poor.
Corrupt administrators
were at fault
The whole thing was
hypocrisy .
6. Helpless men and
women were forced to
do long hour work
Their room were badly
ventilated and poorly
furnished
Their children won’t
get any facilities
7. Condition of orphan children
Government and the
people were
indifferent towards
orphan children
To be orphan was most
unfortunate thing
Disobedience of children
was made heavy
punishment
8. “please sir I want some more ”
When Oliver asked some
more gruel he was badly
punished , because that
became rebellious thing.
9. Condition of public houses
People were addicted
smoking and drinking
served by public houses
Public houses were breeding-
places of crime and gathering
place of criminals
10. Residential quarters of people
• The houses had
particularly no
ventilation .
• They were dark and cell
like
• Streets were narrow,
muddy and foul smelling
• It out breaks of
epidemics.
11. Crime into the society
Crimes like
Robbery
Pick-
pocketing
Murders
Kidnapping
of children
Attraction
towards
eating and
drinking
Training
of pick-
pocketin
g
12. Class difference into the society
• Dickens gives gloomy poverty stricken society
Lower class people struggle for getting food
,clothing and shelter
Upper-class people and their children enjoyed all joys of
their life
Charles himself also belongs to the class where
he worked
14. Position of women into the society
• Female were not get
proper identity into the
society
• Rose is young lady who
good breeding and perfect
chastity
• Nancy was prostitute
women
• Women were shown as
good and bad both
according to their
breeding.
15. Conclusion
• Oliver Twist novel is the mirror to show the real society of
Victorian age
• Dickens' aim to only amuse people and show and light up
the dark side of the society
• In Oliver Twist for poor class people society is like hell and
for upper-class people it is like heaven
