Scarica Oliver Twist, la sua storia e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! OLIVER TWIST OLIVER WANTS SOME MORE The scene takes place in a large stone hall Inside a workhouse. In this episode there is a fat boy who is hungry so much that he says he would eat the thin boy who is near him :infact the boys’ great problemi is that they are starving and they are desperate with hunger, so the boys decide that one of them (oliver) should ask for more food; but the consequences of oliver’s requerest is that Mr. Bumble hits oliver and goes to look for Mr. Limbinks, the man incharge of the workhouse. They consider oliver request as a criminal request so, the day after they posted on the outside of the gate a poster that say that they will give 5 pounds to everyone who takes him away. The narrator voice is outside the novel and it is adopted oliver’s point of view. The story is developed with description,dialogues and narrations: the description is detailed because the narrator wants to describe children’s condition and he wants to arose a sense of pity and builds up a realistic picture of the scene; the narration compares the world of the boys with the one of the institution; the dialogue increase the reader’s interest. There are 2 worlds presented in the text: children’s world characterized by submission(corporal punishment were applied),fear and starvation; adult’s world characterized by power,lack of humanity and fatness. In this passage we have the antitethical images of submission and fatness, boys and adults. THE DEFINITION OF A HORSE The scene takes place in a classroom, that is a white washed room with boys and girls divided up the centre by narrow interval. Thomas grandgrind, the teacher, is speaking to his children about the importance of facts , and he picks on sissy jupe, a new girl calling her “number twenty”. Mr grandgrind objects first to her name (wich must be Cecilia not Sissy) than to her father’s occupation. Mr grandgrind asked the definiton of a horse, but when the girl proves unable to do it, he calls bitzer. Bitzer is a student and he is remarkable for his physical apparences, for his pallor and for his submission to mr grangrind. Bitzer provides a perfect definition of a horse based on pompous, lifeless terms (terms with no meaning) and he is praised by the teacher. Mr. Grandgrind is a typical victorian teacher: he is strict and cruel and he thinks that imagination and creativity have nothing to do with education, they may even slow the process infact he believs only in fact and calculation and he wanted to destroy children’s imagination. In this passage he is represented as a galvanizing apparatus and he semeed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts and he has square forefingers. All these detail makes an overall impression of an unactractive and threating person, ready to destroy children’s imagination on favor of facts. He disrespects children. He represent the reason’s victory towards immagination, the wisdom of the head, the utilitarism ( scientific laws that dictate that nothing else is important but profit, and profit is achieved by the pursuit of facts, everything that isn’t facts is considerer immagination, fancy. The name “Grandgrind” is made up of two words: grade( a particular standar or level of quality of a product)+grind( to crush into powder) that means that he crushes children’s imagination with his rules. Also mr grandgrind refers to his children as “little pitchers”, empty vases that had to be filled with facts. He calls his children by number like “number twenty” for Sissy. Most of his students are submitted, dispersonalized and subjugated, but the girl is different form the other students and it’s underlined by a physical description wich is in anthytesis with Bitzer’s, wich is ironically unwholesome, while sissy jupe represents the world of imagination. The other students are scared whil she always answer back.
