Oliver Twist

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5a) point of wiew
He gives a realistic portrait of Victorian society and to urge social reforms. (humanitarism and philantropic feelings). The most recurring themes in Dickens's novels are childhood and social criticism, infact describing the life of children, Dickens criticizes the social institutions and the social conditions of the industrial revolution, which forced children to work in the workhouses in miserable conditions.
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b) novelist’s position
Charles Dickens is the symbol of the deep contradictions typical of the Victorian Age and embodies what was both positive and negative in it. He condemned the rigidity of the Victorian morality but he was imbued with it: he denounced the evils of his society but he was not able to propose radical solutions for them. He identifies the origin of social evils in man’s hypocrisy, lack of love and greed for money.
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c) narrative mode
The fact of writing for a magazine made him to conform to the public taste in using a melodramatic tone and in introducing an atmosphere of suspance at the end of every part. In particular he pleases lower-middle-classes readers, because they found their lives and problems mirrored by his novels and the upper-classes readers, which share the humanitarian feelings toward the poor people.

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d) kind of narrator
In his novels the events are narrated by a third person narrator, but often they are seen through the eyes of the protagonist.