NAME:- GUJARATI KRISHNA V.CLASS:- M.A SEM-2PAPER:- 6 VICTORIAN AGETOPIC:- “OLIVER TWIST AS A PURE AETERNUS AND SENEX”ROLL NO:- 17SUBMITTED TO:- M.K.B.U, DEPARTMENT. OF. ENGLISH

INTRODUCTION ‘Oliver twist’ subtitled ‘The parish boy’s

progress’ is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens published by Richard Bentley in 1838

‘Oliver twist’ is notable for Dickens’s unromantic portrayal of criminals and their dirty lives.

MEANS OF OLIVER

Oliver means ‘holly’ ‘pure’ and also extreme power of tolerance.

In French word ‘pure Aeternus’ (child hero) and ‘senex’ archetypes which means old hero.

WHAT IS ‘PURE AETERNUS’ ‘pure aeternus’ is Latin for

eternal boy, used in mythology to designate a child-god who is forever young.

THE PURE IN MYTHOLOGY The word pure aeternus come from

metamorphoses, an epic work by the Roman poet Ovid dealing with Greek and roman Myths. in the poem, Ovid addresses the child god latches as pure aeternus and raises him for his role in the Eleusinian Mysteries.

THE PURE IN JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung

developed a school of thought called analytical Psychology.

In analytical Psychology (often called Jungian Psychology) the pure aeternus is an example of what Jung called an archetype, one of the primordial-structural element of human Psyche.

SENEX The shadow of the pure is senex (Latin

for “OLD MAN”) associated with the god Crones-disciplined, controlled, responsible, ordered.

The positive side of pure appears as the Divine child who symbolizes, Newness, potential for growth, hope for future.

OLIVER THROUGH OUT RETAINS THE FORTITUDE OF SAINT

For the first 8 chapters oliver, an illegitimate child born to his dying mother in work house, context & language show the hero at the behest of unaccountable institutions, run by people driven by ideology, finance & selfishness.

His naming Raise Run away to London Fagin & gang pick

pocketing.

I wished to show in little Oliver, the Principle of good surviving through every adverse circumstances, and triumphing at last. “ Dickens’s preface to Oliver Twist.

Oliver’s unchanging grace makes him an agent of redemption in the fallen angel.

Oliver is a saint, an unchanging exemplary of sacred essences a stable icon in a violently fallen world.

Oliver is the representative of the child Archetype in that he brings redemption, over coming darkness and providing a ‘high consciousness’ through his capacity to overcome or shed light on the unconscious.

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