the past, those were different times, so they say lightly, but even earlier there were evil criminals, social ills. Better times were not. Really. The children work in the 19 Century was normal, and evidence of this Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist" . Children were regarded as small adults, of course, could work. It was really bad, we read in the novel, if you had to grow up as an orphan. Oliver's mother dies in childbirth, the father is not tangible. But it is not the social imbalance, which slide into the criminal milieu Oliver Twist leaves. He certainly is not a criminal, but always remains one of the good. A sensitive boy who has the great misfortune to wake up in an unfavorable environment. The educator of the poor farm economy in their own pockets and let the kids eat away starve. The beadle Mr. Bumble, who is responsible for the education of Oliver wants to get rid of him for money to an employer. Children were then completely without rights. The relationship between adults and children was an entirely different than today. Corporal punishment, humiliation (well, yes, there's still the same today, but not the program). Oliver for a great suffering. He puts it
"So lonely and leave, sir, very lonely, "sobbed the boy." No one can stand me. Please do not be too mad at me. "
responsibility of the authorities is to feel nothing. Dickens is definitely one of the first to have criticized the irresponsibility, the inhumanity. The austere Mr. Bumble, the boy is under psychological pressure, so he goes along with this weird chimney sweep who has some children have to answer for, children who suffocated in the chimney. Oliver manages to not to go into the claws of the black man. But when he flees, his horrific past Leaving behind him, he falls into a villain in London the hands of the Jewish criminal Fagin, should send the young men who steal for him. The novel divides people into good and evil. This is a little trivial. The good people helping Oliver, the poor want to hurt him bad. It's that simple Fagin The Jew is so bad that he has managed to land on a wikipedia page. Dickens deliberately plays with Jewish cliches, yes, his time was not unusual (see, Gustav Freytag, Debit and Credit). Fagin
is "... a very old, shriveled Jew, his villainous face with the revolting features of the world of red curly hair shaded."
(Joseph Roth sat in his novel Tarabas the now familiar type of the little red-haired Russian Jews a monument).
is glorious as Gustav Meyrink has set the dialect language of the Jew into German. I can think now, not hide, serve up a charming criminal jargon
"Outside, Bill Sikes, and you lie there and snore as if you had eaten laudanum Well, what is are you already up, should,.? I throw you still nen iron candlestick to the skull? "
If only I read, like Oliver Twist stumbles into awkward situation, and other people inevitably have to think that he is still a bad boy, although he is not, and if I read how much evil immoral people Oliver is met, it haunts my mind, how bad must the 19 century but have been. People must then have been geistesvergiftet abysmal, whatever you imagine it too. Evil rages around and wants to poison the good guys. So it seems.
".. the old wily Jew was sent Oliver caught in his net after he first brought the extent of loneliness, that he preferred to any company the sad thoughts in the desolate abandoned home So hoping Fagin, his heart slowly instill the poison, which, as he believed, his soul perish with time. "
It would therefore may be also due to its difficult past that Oliver gets going a criminal career. But this is not the case. Surprisingly, he remains as he is. Namely, well, I mean, there are others who end up because of such serious life experience somewhere else, right? Ok, a little luck, but Oliver just take and people to help him.
Fast slides the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist in the second half. He appears less and less, but others are brought to the fore. I have not fallen because the protagonist is permeable. In the first novel I could sympathize with the fate of half of the little hero, later then he was out of my above reasons so much care. I sometimes even feel that the novel device in the middle into a standstill. It appears, however, still a great character, the prostitute Nancy, who ekes out her life in the criminal Dunst where I could really sympathize with how big her heart is really the opposite, not only Oliver. I am careful not to take this opportunity to reveal novel content, but for me, Nancy is a key reason why I give this novel to its weaknesses but read my blessing. "Oliver Twist" is an entertaining action novel that thrives on action. Today we commemorate the 199th Birthday of Charles Dickens.
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