paper no-6 the victorian age "criminal justice system presented in oliver twist"
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TOPIC: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
PRESENTED IN OLIVER TWIST
Name: Jinal B. Parmar
Roll No.: 13
Paper No.: 6 The Victorian Age
M.A. Sem.: 2
Year: 2013-2014
Submitted to: Department of English
Smt. S. B. Gardi
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM DICKENS
• English writer and
social critic
• Greatest novelist of the
Victorian period
• He wrote about poverty
and hardship
• His work:
• Pickwick Papers
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Oliver Twist
• Focus on Social
Criticism
Subtitled is “The Parish Boy‟s
Progress”
A social Novel
Story of a orphan child „Oliver
Twist‟
Story reflects the issues of child
labour and cruel treatment to the
orphans
The novel has inspired by the
story of Robert Blincoe
Dickens has reflacted issue of
child labour through the character of
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist :
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN THE NOVEL
“Criminal justice system deals with the
crime problem in which this novel deals
with the problem of child labour and
other crime like child Pick pocket”
Child labor
Poor Law
Poverty
Dickens has represent the the Victorian London of
1830s and crime through out this this novel
Two main characters
Oliver Twist
Fagin
Oliver Twist meets
the Artful Dodger
The Artful Dodger
introduces Oliver to
Fagin
The Victorian
House in the of
the 19th century
Victorian
Chimney
Sweep
A Famous scene from this novel when Mr. Bumble sells
the young orphan (Oliver) in to labor
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The criminological themes
appear early in “Oliver
Twist.” Upon hearing of Oliver‟s
bold request for more food, a
member of the workhouse
board solemnly predicts, “That
boy will be hung. I know that
boy will be hung.” Dickens
thus raises the question of
whether there are “born
criminals”–individuals with more
or less innate tendencies to
commit crime that can become
evident even at a young age
One of the quote that “Please sir I want some more” spoken by Oliver
The legal system portrayed in Oliver Twist, however, is heavily biased in favor of middle-class and upper-class individuals
Dickens shows many types of justice and injustice, in the novel
Both recognized and hidden by society, and portrays the criminal justice system through the moral authority of the English court system and the higher spiritual authority of God.
Dickens takes a stand against retributive justice. Retributive justice is a practice of administering justice through punishments that are proportionate to or fitting of the crime
These are just some of the examples of criminal justice in Oliver Twist
This novel has reflcted the society
of London of Dickens time
Dickens used the story of “Oliver
Twist” to draw to attention to many
social ill that rife in Victorian London
In the time of Dickens and his
character, Oliver Twist, poor people
lived in dread of the workhouse
Many children from the workhouse -
especially those such as Oliver
Twist who had been orphaned -
were sold out as child slaves
It is hard to believe that this used to
happen in London. In some parts of
the world it still happens today.
Thank you…