Charles Dickens :: GCSE English Literature Coursework

Charles DickensCharles Dickens, a nineteenth century writer, tells a boloney about a progeny boy in England and the adventures that happen to him. In readingthe book the reader becomes entwined in the plot by Dickenss expert typography and style. Using different scenes and scenarios, Dickensdisplays his characters psycheality in a way the few other writerscould. In the book Oliver Twist, Dickens uses different events thathappen about Oliver instead letting Oliver decide his own fate. In thebook, other characters determine Olivers path in life, and Oliver isthe subject around which the story revolves. The accidents in the storygive depth to Oliver and add depth to the story that increases elementsof mystery and suspense.In the beginning of the book, Mrs. Thingummy is helping Olivers mothergive birth to the young child. Mrs. Thingummy takes charge of Oliverslife just as he is born by stealing Olivers only link with his father,his mothers hus plenty. Stealing the mothers ring also commits Oliver toa life of lower social status because of his supposed illegitimacy.Oliver moves to the aristocratic forces in the book when he starts withabsolutely nothing from his very birth. The sides of good and evil,light and dark respectively, are also devices used by Dickens to displaydifferent sides of the social discover in England. Accidents tie in closelywith this device because it is by accident that Oliver transferres toone side or another. After spending time in the dark forces, Oliverthen switches back to the light side by a mould in with Mr. Brownlow, acompassionate citizen who pities Oliver and later 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 turn and end up inthe hands of a band of crooks who earlier had taken p ossession 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