Charles Dicken's "Oliver Twist"

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This paper reviews Charles Dicken's "Oliver Twist" with a focus on chapter 20, taking into account his use of environment, personality, social class and faith. It looks at how Dickens presents a heavily cliched novel in which good and evil are divided completely, but also in which good (Oliver) defeats evil (Fagin and Sykes, who both die). It demonstrates how this is the basic tenet of Christianity " that good will always overcome evil " no matter what the odds are and how, Dickens is showing that Christianity is the way to overcome evil.

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"The last two of these foreshadowed events relate to Chapter 20, and the deliverance of Oliver to Sikes, and the subsequent break-in. Housebreaking was very serious in Victorian times, and burglars were usually executed for their crimes. Therefore, Oliver's introduction to housebreaking was a pivotal moment for him " it was the place in the novel where he finally met a good person " his savior from Fagin and Sikes in direst hour of need."

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