Analysis of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

 

After reading a part of Oliver Twist and after watch the short documentary on Charles

Dickens, it is easy to say that he can be identified as a realist writer. A realist writer is defined as

a writer that writes about things are can happen in the real world. The initial twenty pages of

Oliver Twist has numerous realist traits in it. In the principal couple of sentences of the novel, the

storyteller discusses how Oliver Twist was conceived and how his mom passed away due to

complications during birth. The narrator says when discussing Oliver Twist’s birth, “For a long

time after he was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it

remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all;

in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared,

or, if they had, being comprised within… biography extant in the literature of any age or

country” (3). Dickens having the storyteller discuss how nobody knew whether Oliver Twist

would survive indicates Dickens is a realist. Likewise, another piece of the initial twenty pages

where Dickens demonstrates he is a realist writer is toward the finish of the chapter where

Dickens implies about Oliver’s future. The narrator says, “But now he was enveloped in the old

calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell

into his place at once – a parish child – the orphan of a work house – the humble, half-starved

drudge – to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none” (5).

Here, the reader can assume that he will be a “parish child” as the quote provides. From our

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studies of naturalism junior year, or an extraordinary type of authenticity, a man has a

foreordained destiny, which Oliver is given when his mom passes on toward the start of the

novel and he is left as vagrant as an orpha

Subsequent to perusing a piece of Oliver Twist and in the wake of watching the short narrative on Charles Dickens, it is anything but difficult to state that he can be distinguished as a realist essayist. A realist essayist is characterized as an author that expounds on things are can occur in this present reality. The underlying twenty pages of Oliver Twist have various realist attributes in it. In the primary couple of sentences of the novel, the storyteller examines how Oliver Twist was considered and how his mother passed away because of confusions amid birth. The storyteller says while talking about Oliver Twist’s introduction to the world, “For a long time after he was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared, or, if they had, being comprised within… biography extant in the literature of any age or country” (3). Dickens having the storyteller talk about how no one knew whether Oliver Twist would survive shows Dickens is a realist. Similarly, another bit of the underlying twenty pages where Dickens exhibits he is a realist essayist is toward the complete of the part where Dickens suggests about Oliver’s future. The storyteller says, “But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once – a parish child – the orphan of a work house – the humble, half-starved drudge – to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none” (5). Here, after perusing the text one can expect that he will be a “parish child” as the quote gives. From our investigations of naturalism a year ago, or an unprecedented kind of realness, a man has a fated predetermination, which Oliver is given when his mother passes on toward the begin of the novel and he is left as vagrant as a vagrant.