The Political Reconstruction of Human Relationship in Dickens'Oliver Twist
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2007
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Department of English
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.
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Political Reconstruction, Human Relationship, moralist