Contents
ⅠIntroduction (1)
ⅡOliver’s Kindness (2)
2.1 His Kindness to the Poor (2)
2.2 His Kindness to the Thieves (3)
2.3 His kindness to Nancy (4)
2.4 His Kindness to Companion (5)
ⅢOliver’s innocence (5)
ⅣOliver’s Honesty (7)
ⅤOliver’s Filial piety (8)
ⅥOliver’s Bravery (9)
ⅦConclusion (10)
Reference (12)
ⅠIntroduction
Oliver Twist was Dickens’ second novel, which marked the beginning o f Dickens’ literary life. It concentrates on the hard years of an orphan, Oliver Twist, who was against the criminal world of London. It is the first novel that readers are led to a very sad world. The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist, an orphan, while reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver; he was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered big pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating; I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt sorry for the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered evil and Oliver lived a happy life at the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the berry, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walks with them, or Rose read to him, and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty.
The good and honest Oliver was born a person of morality who knew how to thank others for their helps; as for the character of Fagin who was of the quality of craftiness, ferocity and miserliness, at last, he was given a capital punishment which he rightly deserved; and the character of Nancy was of the quality of kindness which was defeated by her evil, the most complex character Nancy fell in love with Sikes and the persistent love affair, but she had the tendency to become a kind-hearted person
The description of the criminals of London that little Oliver lived brought Dickens a new class of many readers interested in social reform... People started to think about social reasons for all of those criminal phenomena exposing the dark sides of people lived out that time. Dickens carried the good traditions of realism novels since 18th century of England and also developed it; he established the base of critical realism and had effect upon the development of the whole European realism novels. Oliver Twist was Charles Dickens’ first authentic novel and also was the first time that he led readers into a real but terrible life of underworld. This novel was a vivid picture
