The Rising of Good Characters in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist.
Throughout Dickens's novel, Oliver Twist, Dickens speaks about the rising or ascension of morally good characters. Oliver Twist is born an orphan who is raised by the parish as underfed, unloved and overworked. He leaves this life and goes to London where he gets kidnapped by a group of thieves while he is staying at a nice man's house. When Oliver was forced to do a malicious act, he was wounded and taken in by the Maylies. All the thieves become arrested or scattered away, while Oliver finds out that he is entitled to the fortune of the Maylies and that they are his real family. In Charles Dickens's novel, Oliver Twist, the eventual rising of the good characters is made evident through the use of setting, the use of characterization, and the use of themes. The use of setting that Dickens employs articulates the fact that Oliver has been torn between two worlds throughout the book. Oliver notices that the good lived in a different type of area than the poor, but not in all cases. One world that Oliver experienced when he was young had been what he described, "the filthy slums of London." Oliver realized that he was in a world of crime when he was a part of Fagin, Sikes, and their gang. Things would happen there at nig
Another theme of the novel is the alienation of characters and how this makes them act. Sometimes alienation makes people, "passive and withdrawn," and makes them never want to be abandoned. Oliver, who has been abandoned, feels as if he has to be a good person to have people like him. As of now, Oliver is very destructive and bad since all those years of alienation. In this, it is clarified that alienation is destruction, no matter what its cause or effect. The use of themes throughout the book also represents the idea that the good characters will rise. One of the themes of the novel is the influence of the environment. Through the book, it is made clear that living conditions determine what happens to people. According to Dickens, "people who are deprived of good influences are doomed, while those who enjoy love and security flourish." Dickens portrays the debasing effects of poverty, especially hunger, which turns humans into struggling animals. The influence of the environment does effect the bad and/or good things that a person would do. The good or bad things that a person would do determine where he is going to end up. The good will have a life of nice surroundings and fullness, while the bad will have the opposite. Such characters as Rose Maylie, who is Oliver's aunt, took care of Oliver when he was hurt. Rose knew what it was like to be rescued from an unhappy childhood, she urgently wants to rescue Oliver, and Nancy too. She thought of this type of helping as part of the good instincts in the "Victorian Society." Brownlow is a generous man, concerned for other people. Brownlow is quick to feel pity for Oliver, yet when he believes he is right he does not hesitate to enforce his will. For his righteousness, it was said that he, "seems to be a caricature of a virtuous man." From people like this comes that fact that morality will rise you in life. Oliver comprehends that ther
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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