Gender comparison of the

Authors of

‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘Middle March’

(Victorian Novelists) -By Poojaba Jadeja

MKBU

Introduction

Oliver Twist Middle March

Charles Dickens Mary Anne Evans

George Eliot

comparison

• Dickens wrote about

social issues like, child

labour, thieves...

• Story of a child

• Theme of child labour

and social problems

• Mary Anne Evan wrote

about human general

life

• Story of different

characters, mainly

Dorothea-woman

• Theme of marriage,

familiar story

Comparison

• As a mail Dickens shows

problems of society

• He present struggle for

getting family as for

security

• Struggle with social evils

• Different character of

society

• As a female Mary Anne

Evans wrote on family life

• She shows story of

marriage

• Idealism and fail idealism

in characters life (in

marriage)

• House hold characters

are major

Comparison

• Study of society, lower

middle class society,

social evils.

• Very realistic picture of

Victorian society.

• Like old Hindi movies

• Close study of human

nature and every day

life.

• Real but sometimes

artificial world.

• Like evergreen

television serials

What do you think?

What is better?

Close Study of human life

or

issues of society?

Whom you like more?

Why?