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Essay / How does Dickens describe authority in “Oliver Twist”?
The novel 'Oliver Twist' was written in the 19th century, the book was written by Charles Dickens. This book was written in the Victorian era. During this period, their working conditions were poor and child labor began at the age of eight. That is why this novel deals with the criticism of the cruelty that children and the poor suffered from the 19th century society and the writer uses different techniques to convey this criticism. Throughout the novel, Dickens portrays authority as violence and cruelty in society. He intentionally set the book in a workshop to criticize the poor law and the way they are treated. At the beginning of the novel, Dickens began to show the kind of attitude they have in the workshop "The Old Story", ... shaking his head... No marriage, I see", this shows how the surgeon was cynical and also mean. the society of that time, instead of respecting the dead, he still had the courage to snub it. This gives the reader an idea of how doomed and dark the atmosphere is in the workshop. Oliver Twist was the name of the child born, he was ...