PORTRAYAL OF CHILD ABUSE AND SOCIAL CRIME IN OLIVER TWIST.

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).