Oliver Twist as the Macabre of Childhood
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‘Oliver Twist’ as the Macabre of Childhood. Paper 6: The Victorian Literature Student’s Name: Kaushal Desai Class: M.A. English Sem: 2 Roll No. : 13 Submitted To: Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
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‘Oliver Twist’ as the Macabre of Childhood.
Paper 6: The Victorian LiteratureStudent’s Name: Kaushal DesaiClass: M.A. English Sem: 2Roll No. : 13Submitted To: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
What is Macabre?
• Having death as a subject.
• things that involve the horror of death or violence.
• A story involves lots of blood and gore.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens shows The Victorian England
The time of “Oliver Twist”
Macabre of childhood in ‘Oliver Twist’
• Dickens presents a portrait of the macabre childhood of a considerable number of Victorian orphans. • Fagin, a devil figure, corrupts all the children he meets, making them work as thieves in exchange for a macabre sense of 'the home' and 'the family'.
Dickens’ concepts
• Child labor• Child abasement
“were very sage, deep, philosophical men”~ Managers of the workhouse
“The wily old Jew had the boy in his toils; and, having prepared his mind by solitude and gloom to prefer any society to the companionship of his own sad thoughts in such a dreary place, was now slowly instilling into his soul the poison which he hoped would blacken it and change its hue for ever.” (18.58)
Boys treated as a labor and starving for needy stomach
“tortures of slow starvation”
Conclusion
♀ Charles Dickens’ portray of character and a situation of Orphan child in the Victorian era is
highlighted very properly
In which orphan child, a deadly way to go every misery comes in their way “It’s a already a
macabre of childhood”
