Topic: Child Labour in Oliver TwistPaper Name: The Victorian LiteraturePaper No.: 6Name: Bhatt UrviRoll No: 32Std: M.A.Sem: 2Submitted to: Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

About Book

Historical fiction

Social criticism

Portrayal of criminals

Recruitment of children

Presence of street

children

Child labor

Contemporary evil

About unfortunate child Oliver

• Forced into a life of poverty and misfortune in workhouse

• first nine years at baby farm

• An apprentice at Mr. Sowerberry an Undertaken

• Went to London

• Become a victim of Jewish criminal

• Fagin and his gang of pickpockets

• Mystery of a child called Oliver

Industrial revolution in Europe

• Made people to leave the agriculture.

• Attracted towards factories and machinery.

• World war I and II ruined the agriculture economy.

• Young and children were forced to work for their livelihood.

Crises of Urban society

• People started migrating to cities

• Children benefited the criminals

• Disease and lack of food

• Habitation problems

Upper and lower class in society

• The picture of gloomy poverty stricken society of lower class.

• Charles himself belonged to class –worked in warehouse at the age of twelve .

Literature and childhood

• Dickens himself did not get proper wages as a child.

• Moll Flanders by Denial Defoe.

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

• Literature is the mirror of the society and thus shows both the sides of coin.

Movie and Child labor

• Film industry plays an important role

• awakening the people • Heart renders at the painful

sight of small children working

• Movie Oliver Twist shows the gloomy life of small orphans

Poverty• Strike the war stricken

economy of all the countries.

• Child slavery ruined the childhood.

• Atmosphere of cold country and poverty crippled the growth of children physically and mentally.

Child victim

• Poverty, illiteracy forced children to live in grimness

• Odd jobs

Orphanages in the contemporary

• Orphanages and residential schools

• Not given enough food• Ill-treated• Oliver Twist was treated

badly at the orphanage• Forced to ask for food

second time an his punishment was severe.

• Picture of his contemporary life

India and child labor

• Our county’s Past was glorious.• Many problems related with child labour.• Government has been trying hard to implement

the laws. • A vast country need awareness.• It eats away the progress of children.• Restricts mental and physical development.• Our slum area are full of such examples.

Conclusion

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