Charles Dickens :: GCSE English Literature Coursework

Charles dickensCharles Dickens, a nineteenth century writer, tells a bosh about ayoung boy in England and the adventures that happen to him. In readingthe harbour the reader becomes entwined in the plot by Dickenss expertwriting and style. Using antithetical scenes and scenarios, Dickensdisplays his characters temperament in a way the few other writerscould. In the bulk Oliver Twist, Dickens uses different events thathappen around Oliver instead letting Oliver solve his own fate. In thebook, other characters determine Olivers path in conduct, and Oliver isthe subject around which the story revolves. The accidents in the storygive skill to Oliver and add depth to the story that increases elementsof mystery and suspense.In the beginning of the book, Mrs. widget is helping Olivers mothergive birth to the young child. Mrs. doohickey takes charge of Oliverslife just as he is born(p) by stealing Olivers only link with his father,his mothers hus stage set. Stealing the m others ring also commits Oliver toa life of lower social status because of his supposed illegitimacy.Oliver moves to the colorful forces in the book when he starts withabsolutely nothing from his very birth. The statuss of good and evil,light and dark respectively, are also arts 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 outlay 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 people 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 bend and end up inthe hands of a band of crooks who preferably h ad 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