1. Department of English
Name : Baldaniya Vanita Velabhai
Semester: 2 (part : 1)
Roll no: 29
Subject : The Victorian Literature
Paper: 6
Topic: Oliver Twist (symbolism)
Email id : vanitabaldaniya0806@gmail.com
Guidance by: Heenaba Zala
2. Image of Charles Dickens
Acquaintance of
Charles Dickens
Born: 7 February 1812.
Died: 9 June 1870.
Notable Works: 1) the
Pickwick papers. 2) Oliver
Twist. 3) A Christmas Carol.
4) David Copperfield. 5)
Hard Times. 6) Little Dorrit.
7) A Tale of Two Cities. 8)
Great Expectations.
3. Image of Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens
Year of Publication:
1838
Type of Work: Novel
Age: The Victoria Age
9. The novel of symbolic presentation.
The soul, or cultural synthesis,
“expresses itself in a
universal language of symbols.”
10. The novel is shot through with
another symbol, obesity, which
calls attention to hunger and the
poverty that produces it by calling
attention to their absence.