Charles Dickens :: GCSE English Literature Coursework

Charles monsterCharles Dickens, a nineteenth century writer, tells a tosh about ayoung boy in England and the adventures that happen to him. In readingthe hold up the reader becomes entwined in the plot by Dickenss expertwriting and style. Using variant scenes and scenarios, Dickensdisplays his characters nature in a way the few other writerscould. In the withstand Oliver Twist, Dickens uses different events thathappen around Oliver instead letting Oliver see his own fate. In thebook, other characters determine Olivers path in living, and Oliver isthe subject around which the story revolves. The accidents in the storygive sense to Oliver and add depth to the story that increases elementsof mystery and suspense.In the beginning of the book, Mrs. twist is helping Olivers mothergive birth to the young child. Mrs. widget takes charge of Oliverslife just as he is natural by stealing Olivers only link with his father,his mothers hus resound. Stealing the mothers ring als o commits Oliver toa life of lower social status because of his supposed illegitimacy.Oliver moves to the wickedness forces in the book when he starts withabsolutely nothing from his very birth. The stances of good and evil,light and dark respectively, are also whatsiss used by Dickens to displaydifferent sides of the social coin in England. Accidents tie in closelywith this device because it is by accident that Oliver transferres toone side or another. After consumption time in the dark forces, Oliverthen switches back to the light side by a run in with Mr. Brownlow, acompassionate citizen who pities Oliver and afterward takes care of him. Ofall the mountain that Oliver could run into Mr. Brownlow happens to be oneof those people who Oliver desperately needed and who could and wouldprovide for Oliver. In another example of an accident, and a shift backinto the dark forces, Oliver happens to make a wrong lift and end up inthe hands of a band of crooks who preferably had taken possession ofOliver. By chance the appropriate person was in the alley that Oliver,by chance, walked into when he was passing through the city of London.In the last transition of chance, Oliver is caught breaking and enteringinto a house that the band of crooks intends to pillage. This housecontains another compassionate and tender character that becomes like amother to Oliver. Luckily, and by chance, the shot that one of the