Unaware that his new found companion is a pickpocket, Oliver naively follows Jack to the house of his benefactor Fagin where he is offered shelter. Consequently, Oliver decides to run away and is quickly on his way to London where he meets a boy his own age by the name of Jack Dawkins. Things do not get any easier, as Oliver is bullied by fellow apprentice Noah Claypole who also causes him to be unfairly flogged by their superiors. Subsequently, Oliver is apprenticed to local undertaker, Mr. Unimpressed by such a request, the authoritarian administrators of the workhouse offer five pounds to anyone willing to take the boy as an apprentice. Bumble and makes his famous plea “Please sir, I want some more”.
The unlucky representative of the starving children is Oliver, who goes up to the stern Mr.
One day the young, hungry orphans decide to draw sticks in order to determine who will ask for another portion of gruel. Along with other fellow orphans, he is regularly beaten and underfed. The novel opens with the introduction of Oliver, a waif who has spent his short life living in miserable conditions in a workhouse. After being poorly treated in a workhouse, Oliver escapes to London where instead of finding a better life he ends up tangled in a web of criminal activities. Dickens fiction reflects London both as a center of international power, as a city consisting of small neighborhoods, and of a city made up of the rich and those clinging to new and tenuous economic circumstances.Set in the first half of the 19th century, the classic novel presents the story of young orphan Oliver Twist, who endures tumultuous events in a society burdened by poverty, crime and malice.
London was not just a hub for English workers, writers, artists, and thinkers-it was a multinational cosmopolis, the like of which the world had never seen (or had not since the far different Roman Empire, 1800 years previous). England was also the crown jewel of an Empire "on which the sun never set," meaning it extended across much of the known world, including Australia and New Zealand, the Indian subcontinent, and interests in Africa. A whole host of other industries sprang up to support these new modes of production (including coal energy and railroad infrastructure development), and cities grew to include vast tenements of workers recently relocated from the country. The high-point of the Industrial Revolution took place, more or less, at the time of Oliver Twist's writing the production of goods had transitioned from "cottage industries" in the countryside to centralized factories in London and in the newer cities of Manchester and Birmingham. The Victorian Period coincides with a series of political, economic, and social changes in England that are inseparable from the nature of the fiction produced.
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