Essay Archive - Comparison and Contrast Dickens' Oliver Twist and Pip
Comparison and Contrast Dickens' Oliver Twist and Pip
Charles Dickens is unusual among writers in that so many of his
heroes and heroines are children, or are described in ways that associate
them with childhood. And because nearly all these children are predestined
to belong to the congenial society, they can only be hurt, not corrupted,
by the obstructing society.
Oliver and Pip have both gone through a rough childhood. In the
novel of Oliver Twist, ever since Oliver is born, he lives in the orphanage
and lives with the discrimination from the adult. “Please Sir, I wan....
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