Oliver twist

Siti Komariah
OLIVER TWIST
CHARLES DICKENS
 USUAL TOPICS IN DICKENS’
LITERATURE
•Social oppression (public social and justice)
•Descriptions of English life. How people lived
in the nineteenth century.
•Wrote about topics of 1770 to 1860.
•Crime, child exploitation, theft, handling
 TRAILER
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 Setting
Setting (Time) : 1830s

Setting (Place) : London and environs; an

unnamed smaller English city; the English
countryside
 Character

• Oliver Twist: tough, obedient

• Fagin: cunning, ambitious, arrogant and
miserly
• Nancy: soft hearted and kind but too obedient
and too concerned about other people's
feelings.
• Bill Sikes: rude, stingy and playful
 Theme
• Film Oliver Twist describes the persistent struggle of an
orphan who managed to get out of adversity, against the ego
of a society that developed as a result of the Industrial
Revolution that developed in England. Besides the main
theme, there are also themes that are highlighted by Roman
Polanski including stories - the law of the poor, the justice
system, poverty, crime, prostitution, economic inequality,
but the whole is a metaphor when Oliver symbolizes the
good while the surrounding environment does not deserve
to symbolize the evil one. The theme of Oliver's story is that
good always triumphs and justice rewards those who do not.
 Plot
Major Conflict : Although Oliver is fundamentally
righteous, the social environment in which he is raised
encourages thievery and prostitution.Oliver struggles
to find his identity and rise above the abject
conditions of the lower class.
Rising Action : Oliver is taken care of by a gang of
London thieves, but refuses to participate in their
thievery.An upper-class family takes him in, but the
thieves and a mysterious character, Monks, continue
to pursue him.
Climax : Nancy is murdered for disclosing
Monks’s plans to Oliver’s guardians.Mr.
Brownlow gets the full story of Oliver’s origins
from Monks.
Falling Action :  Fagin is executed and Sikes
dies;Oliver and his new family live out their days
in happiness.
 Point of view
The narrator is third person omniscient, and
assumes the points of view of various characters
in turn. The narrator’s tone is not objective; it is
sympathetic to the protagonists and far less so
to the novel’s other characters. When dealing
with hypocritical or morally objectionable
characters, the narrative voice is often ironic or
sarcastic.
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