In Oliver Twist, the main character's mother dies in childbirth and he is orphaned in a workshop. The children there are starving and when Twist politely asks for more food, he will be treated even more cruelly. When he is sent to work for an undertaker who beats him, he flees to London. He gets involved in a life of crime. Oliver's good home and inheritance save him in the end.1 The book was so popular that almost everyone who could read English read about Oliver's misery and the plight of the workhouse children. Strong legislative reforms within the government eventually led to laws that protected children from harsh working conditions and the plight of starving, hard-working children could no longer be ignored.2Charles Dickens lived during the same era as Oliver Twist. He saw the society and what it was like and tried to show it in his book. You might think he is writing about his own life when you compare his biography and that of Oliver Twist. I want to take a closer look at the nature of the biographical perspective found in his book and his life and why it was so important for him to show that a temporal society. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7, 1812, to John and Elisabeth Dickens. He was the second of eight children. His mother worked in the service of the Lord and his father worked as a clerk in the port office. John Dickens was imprisoned for debt when Charles was young. Charles Dickens began work on a film Density, managed by a relative of his mother, when he was twelve, and hard times and poverty affected him deeply. Likewise, the concern for social justice and reform that appears later in his writings arose from the harsh conditions he experienced in the warehouse.3I want to analyze the main character O...... middle of paper. ..... children rested. Oliver Twist attacks the exploitation of children in workhouses.5Through the novel Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens shows the reality of workhouses in the 19th century. Alongside many staunch believers, Dickens' attack on the unjust social system helped influence society, as "conditions in the workhouses improved later in the 1900s, and services such as welfare and social security completely replaced the workshops in the first half of the 20th century" - Richard Dewayne MorrisCharles Dickens used his novel to point out the truth about Victorian England that polite society tried to ignore. Even so, the Dickens's goal was to clearly depict the reality of how and where Oliver lived and survived on the streets of a city that did not want him. The novel depicts the best of human nature in contrast with the worst of human nature...