B1: Dickens

Some could say that Oliver’s beginning is an injustice in itself. One of the most important aspects of the novel is the frustrating struggle of injustice. Oliver Twist is a victim of the society around him. If Oliver had been born into an identified wealthy […]

Blog Post 5: Poverty in “A Christmas Carol” In the time of Charles Dickens there was a large gap between those who could afford to live and those who could not. The poor of Victorian England had a hard life, especially after the passing of […]

Although I was planning on responding to this prompt before the trip occurred, I am glad I decided to save this response for after our return. The trip heightened my appreciation for Dickens’ works, and with the added knowledge from our tours, visits, and sessions, […]

Dickens in both Oliver Twist and in Night Walks discusses this theme of being born into poverty and the concept of homelessness. In his novel Oliver Twist, Dickens portrays these themes through the main protagonist, Oliver himself, where Oliver is born into poverty and homelessness after his mother died shortly […]

Reading Night Walks you can sense how night life is a completely different in London. Reading this it seams like I’m reading what London is hiding through the day. Dicken’s kind of  goes into detail about the people who are homeless trying to find shelter […]

While urbanization and population are not overarching themes in “A Christmas Carol,” their presence in the story as a theme relate it to Dicken’s essay, Night Walks. Urbanization and population do exist as key themes in Night Walks as Dickens reflects on the restlessness of […]