28May 2017
PORTRAYAL OF CHILD ABUSE AND SOCIAL CRIME IN OLIVER TWIST.
- Research Scholar, Department of English, Sri Satya Sai University of Technology and Medical sciences Sehore, Madhya Pradesh.
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Child Abuse and Social Crime are inter-related as the former is the consequence of the latter. Society is largely responsible for the condition of its members. Charles Dickens exposed numerous social drawbacks in his novels. Oliver Twist is regarded as a Victorian Era text book of Child Abuse. As the novel progresses the drawbacks, of the workhouses and the underworld of the nineteenth century Victorian society, are exposed. The child protagonist experienced an extremely harsh life under very difficult conditions until he finally found a benefactor, (who later adopts him).
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[Sumera Subuhi. (2017); PORTRAYAL OF CHILD ABUSE AND SOCIAL CRIME IN OLIVER TWIST. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (May). 1463-1467] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
Sumera Subuhi
Sri Satya Sai University of Technology and Medical sciences
Sri Satya Sai University of Technology and Medical sciences
