INTRODUCTION

Oliver Twist presents a series of acts which represent how life was. People preferred to robe instead to work for acquiring the things for living. The novel offers events in which injustice, goodness, compassion, sadness and many other characteristics give a balance between how life is and how it would be. If people talk about how life is, people refer to the things that normally happen, and those things attract the imagination of a different world. Oliver Twist is a big-hearted boy who does not like the bad actions, but he needs to accept what he has to do command by Fagin who had the control of a band of robbers. Oliver immersed in a world of bad actions that carried out many deceptions because he had to do things he did not wanted to do, but the fear provoked by Fagin´s words obliged him to develop the bad actions. Mr. Brownlow appears in a good moment of the story because Oliver was going to be sentenced because of an action he had not committed. Oliver was lucky of finding a woman who knew how Oliver´s life was because she has gotten through the same life when being a child; sadly, her boyfriend killed her, and her life finished with hurt. Oliver Twist brings a look of the judgment rich people did towards poor ones, but despites many people thought poor people had not the same rights as they did, People like Mr. Brownlow had another way to see the world, and because of his goodness, Oliver got the a better opportunity to live thanks to the memories Mr. Brownlow had of Oliver´s mother. The novel represents the life of many children who do not have the opportunity to live well, and the needs they face.

Analysis of “Oliver Twist”

Oliver Twist was a normal kid. He deserved a life as any other kid in the world, but life was not so good with him, and he faced the tragedy of losing his mother minutes after his birth. Life was unfair at the beginning of the novel, and people think how poor Oliver is; however, he needed that in his life for learning how life is, and for being strong when bad things can come to his life. Oliver was part of a workhouse in which he got a bad treatment from Mr. Bumble. Oliver is really important for everybody; that´s why all people surrounding him wanted to have more and more information about his life. Mr. Brownlow decided to take him home because he realized some familiarity with Oliver´s mother whom he had known some time ago.  Oliver had a brother who wanted to involve Oliver in a trouble, and he went to Fagin to know how they could do for Oliver to be the dam. Oliver is really good at speaking, so at talking people could notice he had education, and the idea of being a well-spoken kid and being indigent at the same time could not enter their heads. Oliver at the end of the novel was a very successful person, and all the things which happened helped him grow personally.

The author created the story as protest against the society he lived in. Charles Dickens thought by creating a novel like “Oliver Twist” people could see all the prejudices they made towards poor people. Charles knew people considered poor ones as people with no rights and robbers; however, he knew there were exceptions, and who knows maybe he met a poor person who was not as the people considered them. Dickens did not like the idea of poor ones had only to robber because they did not offer anything else to society but bad actions. Charles Dickens makes Oliver suffer a little during the novel, but he gives Oliver what he deserves at the end of the novel. By creating the novel, the author wanted to show another perspective for rich people to treat in a different way poor people because many injustices appeared every day, and he realized all those injustices; so, he decided to write the novel so that all people could change their mind and try to include poor people even knowing how the thought at that time was, but he did not care because he wanted to change the world, the society he developed himself. He wrote his novels with irony and humor, and during a long time he, not just for saying all the time, he wrote his novels with fiction to make them easy to understand because he knew not all people were able to buy a book, and books which were not so formal were more expensive. Dickens always used social critique so that his society could get what he thought about life, and he was not an abnormal but humanistic person because of the way he thought of poor people.

The band of thieves commanded by Fagin had members of different personalities. The band included the boss: Fagin. Fagin was a Jewish person who did not care about anything or anybody else but him. Fagin was the kind of robber that nobody knows but mentally, he commits all the crimes. He really wanted Oliver to be a sanguinary robber, but he always had the surprise Oliver kept his equilibrium of not doing incorrect actions. Fagin saw in Oliver a good price he could use for great robberies because Oliver had the characteristic of being little, and little people are unobserved in robberies. Fagin acted as if he did not have feelings and as if he was an arrogant, hard, disrespectful person; thus, that made him be respected by everybody in the band except Sikes. Sikes was a blooding criminal. He always was bad, and he could not love anybody even not Nancy. Sikes was a proud person because he did not permit anybody to command him, and Fagin knew it very well. As far as the novel says, Fagin had a secret Sikes knew, and that is why Fagin did not bother Sikes so much. Sikes got the point of killing his girlfriend, and when felt the guilt of what he did up to the point of seeing the bloody face of his girl when closing his eyes, he felt remorse. Sikes tried to run away from what he felt because of the most bloody and sanguinary murder he committed, but he ran away to a swamp, and when he was climbing, he slipped and fell in quicksand, and he died. Nancy felt compassion towards Oliver. She was always protecting him, and it made her have problems with her couple. Nancy had a bad childhood, and she exactly knew what Oliver was getting through. Nancy contacted Rose to expulse all the things she felt, and it caused her death. Nancy saw Oliver as her brother, and until the day of her death she treated Oliver very well, and she did not want that life for him, but just one person could not change the thoughts of the other members of the band. The band included two more characters, but they did not represent something really strong in the novel.

Mr. Brownlow represented the charity in the novel. He was an old man who had the opportunity to take Oliver to his house. Mr. Brownlow found something interesting in Oliver: The acquaintance with a woman´s portrait in his house. Mr. Brownlow attracted the part of the novel in which Oliver felt a connection with the woman of the portrait, and sadness appeared with that scene. He suffered a robbery by Fagin´s guys, and Oliver got the attention of the people, so everybody tried to catch him. Mr. Brownlow said he was not going to charge anything over Oliver, and Oliver went to Mr. Brownlow´s house. He knew there was something gettable in Oliver, so he wanted to find out what it was.

The time of the novel represents what was happening at that time in England. The events which happened in England were marked by Dickens in the novel because Industrial Revolution was growing really fast. The time represents a period in which poverty was high, and people did not know what to do to get the enough goods for surviving. The epoch talks about the rights of the poor people, and how exploded they were at that time; thus, not too long time after the publication of the novel, England decided to change some statutes in favor of the poor people. The time tells people in Industrial Revolution the workers did not have to labor more than eight hours, and the basic needs had to be covered by the boss of the enterprise. Besides, the epoch influenced Dickens to write how world had to be at least for poor people. The time represented an important part in every story because people can know what the reasons of the writer to write were. The events that happened created the scenario for Dickens to write his spectacular novel. The epoch was the Victorian age, an age in which the law of the strongest was the right one, and no justice existed.

Conclusion

Oliver Twist is a very good novel to know how the thoughts of the people were in the Victorian age, and what the society had to change for having an equal world. The novel represents many characters that are still presented in every situation of life. The story works out very well the things every character deserved depending on the things they had done. Oliver Twist offers a mirror of what is happening nowadays because it contains the things people still do to “survive.” The novel shows the injustices Dickens thought were being committed by the society he lived in. The novel is very heartless at the beginning due to the fact of Oliver´s mother´s death, however all the things that happen during the story say Oliver could be a good boy despites of being involved in many delinquencies activities, and having what he had to have since his birth. Oliver Twist implies the needs people from streets have, and society sometimes prejudice them; however, not all people from streets have good intentions towards society, but many people do bad acts because of the necessity of money to survive in life.  Oliver Twist shows people have what they deserve in life before dying for paying the good or bad things they have committed along their lives.