Avvenimenti della storia Oliver Twist e vita nelle città in epoca vittoriana, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica Avvenimenti della storia Oliver Twist e vita nelle città in epoca vittoriana e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! OLIVER TWIST BY CHARLES DICKENS CHILDHOOD IN THE VICTORIAN AGE Childhood in Victorian times was a cruel experience. A lot of poor children had to work in factories, mines or as domestic servants and chimney sweepers. Others became criminals. Victorian literature was really interested in childhood. Dickens himself was obsessed with children who considered innocent or corrupted by adults. It was thought that workhouses needed to be built because poor people were lazy and that the terrible conditions in the workhouse would inspire them to improve their own conditions. Anyway, instead of reducing the suffering of the poor, the people who managed workhouses abused their rights and caused them further misery. Literature book pag 157 OLIVER TWIST: PLOT •Oliver Twist first appeared in instalments in 1837 and later published a s a book •The novel reflects Dickens’s miserable and terrible childhood. •Oliver Twist is a poor boy of unknown parents. He was brought up in a workhouse in a inhuman way. •He was later sold to an undertaker as an apprentice, but the cruelty and the unhappiness he experienced with his new master cause him to run away to London. •In London he joined a gang of young pickpockets, led by the Artful Dodger and trained by the Fagin. •They tried to make a thief out of him. They didn’t manage to do it because Oliver was helped by an old gentleman, Mr Brownlow. •Anyway, Oliver was kidnapped by the gang and forced to commit burglary. •During the job he was shot and wounded.