criminal justice system presented in oliver twist

TOPIC: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM PRESENTED IN OLIVER TWIST

Name: Jinal B. Parmar Roll No.: 13Paper No.: 6 The Victorian AgeM.A. Sem.: 2 Year: 2013-2014Submitted 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 LawPoverty

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.

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