The Political Reconstruction of Human Relationship in Dickens'Oliver Twist

Abstract

Charles Dickens was the advocate of the poor and oppressed people. He was a humanist, moralistand social reformer. Charles Dickens, inOliver Twist,attacks the social ills of the industrial Victorian society. He criticizes the work house system, court, government bitterly. This study traces the political and economicdevelopment in the industrial Victorian society and Charles Dickens' confrontationwithit. The privileging has been challenged by intellectualsinVictorian society.Charles Dickens was the most passionate and vocal writer to do so in the Victorian society. He presents the terrible and degraded picture of poverty. It also examines modern theoretical development and notes their convergence with Dickens ideas. It concludes with the claim that political reconstruction was emerged due to industrial culture inthe Victorian society putting all the earlier human relations of feudals patriarchal to the end.