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Oliver Twist Theme of Society and Class

"Society and Class" is one of the central themes of most of Dickens’s novels. In Oliver Twist, Dickens often shows how superficial class structures really are – at the core, everyone’s really the same, regardless of the social class into which they’re born. Dickens also exposes how callous and uncaring Victorian society was – folks just ignored the plight of the less fortunate because they were so self-satisfied, and so convinced that the systems they had in place to take care of the poor were the best and most humane systems possible.

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Oliver Twist Theme of Poverty

The theme of "Poverty" is obviously related to the theme of "Society and Class." But while the "Society and Class" theme is concerned with showing how the social class system is basically just invented by society to justify the status quo, Dickens is also very concerned in showing just how miserable the lower classes really were. With Oliver Twist, he doesn’t shy away from depicting the conditions of the poor in all their misery with gritty realism.

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Oliver Twist Theme of Criminality

Crime was a huge problem in London in the 1830s, when Dickens was writing, just as it is now. Novels and plays about crime were hugely popular. Some novelists wrote about crime because they had a particular point to make about the source of criminal behavior, or possible solutions to the crime wave. Other novelists wrote about crime just because they knew it would sell. Oliver Twist was hugely popular, but Dickens definitely had a point to make: he wanted to show how criminals really lived, in order to discourage poor people from turning to crime. He also wanted to show how external influences created criminal behavior as much or more than natural criminal urges.

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Oliver Twist Theme of Religion

Organized, institutionalized religion – especially the Church of England – gets a pretty bad rap in this novel. Dickens was Anglican himself, but he felt like the Church was too impersonal and institutionalized, and didn’t do enough to take care of the poor and miserable folks who turned to the Church for help. The whole parish system was responsible for maintaining workhouses, orphanages, and baby farms, and Dickens thought that the whole system was inhumane and just stunk to high heaven. He certainly didn’t shy away from showing the negative side of the parish system in Oliver Twist.

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