explain why charles dickens covered oliver twist novel. In the early 19th cent?

Answer 1

Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist in recognition of the awful times in which he lived, he was considered a social reformer because he highlighted the plight of orphans in such a way that the government and other influential people could not ignore him, that is why he wrote about how scandalous the times were in many of his novels.

Answer 2

Charles Dickens was in a position to see a great deal of the appalling social injustices of his time. His father, John, worked as a navy clerk, but was unable to manage financially, so while Charles was still a young boy, his father was sent to debtor's prison. This meant that the whole family went with him and Charles Dickens could see the plight of other people whose only fault was to be poor. During that time, Charles briefly worked in a London factory pasting labels on shoe polish bottles. Even after his father's release, John's work barely provided enough money to support the family. Charles Dickens attended school sporadically until he was fifteen years old.

In 1850 Charles Dickens published an essay entitled "A Walk in a Workhouse". While Oliver Twist shows the workhouse primarily as it is experienced by Oliver, a short journalistic piece such as "A Walk in a Workhouse," permits Dickens to demonstrate the way children and adult men and women lived in these unpleasant institutions. Furthermore, where the novel's sarcasm and humor might lead the reader to believe Dickens saw nothing favorable about these institutions, the journalism suggests otherwise. For example, of the workhouse he visited that May Sunday in 1850, Dickens writes: "I saw many things to commend. It was very agreeable, recollecting that most infamous and atrocious enormity committed at Tooting" . Explaining this difference may be the fact that such a reasonable, open perspective is fitting for a serious essay but would have failed to advance his themes in fiction like Oliver Twist or to capture the emotional attention of his readers. While suggestions that improvements in workhouses have been made between the writing of Oliver Twist and the publication of this essay of the same period convincingly argues against such a supposition.

Among those characteristics of the 1850 workhouse applauded by Dickens were the robust looks of the children, the pleasant confidence of the members of the infant school, and the "cheerful and healthy aspect" of the girls' school.

This measured acknowledgment that all is not wrong in the workhouse contrasts with the way Dickens introduces Twist's workhouse experience. If this he writes that the "parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved that Oliver should be 'farmed', or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental supervision of an elderly female who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week" (Oliver Twist). The tone of this workhouse description here is, of course, notably different than the essay. It is humorous, and allows for no possibility that Oliver may benefit from the time spent there.

The conclusion of "A Walk in the Workhouse" seems to argue for moderate reform in the system, whereas the account of Oliver Twist appears to demand nothing less than the elimination of the workhouse system. Describing the pleading face of a workhouse child at the end of the 1850 essay, Dickens said it sought only "a little more liberty - and a little more bread"

Answer 3

To make money - that's what he did for a residing. He needed a undertaking which might attraction to his aim industry - readers of Bentley's Miscellany, which became printed month-to-month. He probable based it on the account of the existence of Robert Blincoe - an orphan whos tale of his existence and confusing circumstances became common interior the early nineteenth century - yet Dickens's artwork had originality and that's probable the 1st novel to have a new child because of the fact the protagonist. Dickens used his novel to attraction to interest to social issues, extremely the detrimental regulation and new child labour.

Answer 4

"Covered"???? Do you mean as in a music 'cover' which is when you copy (with slight changes sometimes) a previous song? As far as I know Dickens wrote the story himself rather than copying it from anyone.

Answer 5

Covered with what? Porridge?

Answer 6

It's not clear what you are asking.