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baby-farm. The result of Oliver’s asking for more porridge was the ruthless treatment of the charity organization. These irresponsible actions of the charity organization fully revealed its corruption and hypocrisy.

 

2.2 Criticism of the law system and the Educational system
Dickens’ criticism firstly focused on the law system. The injustice of the law system was one of his main critical contents (赵炎秋 49). In 1834 the new Poor Law was passed. In accordance with it, the new poor-house was established, known as the workhouse. As noted by Fang Cunzhong, “The indigent were no longer objects of charity, but were collected in the prison-like buildings, the Poor Law Bastilles, administered by the officials who had no education and often no sympathy with the people under their care”(178). Oliver Twist was born in the workhouse while his mother died there. Whoever lived in this workhouse would take their underline to survive for the conditions there were really severe. Just as Dickens said in the novel "And with this, the old lady applied herself to warming up, in a little saucepan, a basin full of broth strong enough to furnish an ample dinner, when reduced to the regulation strength, for the three hundred and fifty paupers, at the lowest computation" (119). Although this description was a little exaggerated, it revealed how terrible the living condition was in the workhouse.
Education is an important aspect in one’s process of growth. To be a civilized person or an unprincipled person, even worse, to be a criminal person have closely related with one’s education, including family education, school education and the society education.

 

2.3 Criticism of the money worship
There are lots of desires through one’s whole life. If one can not balance the desire of oneself very well, it would bring misfortune to others, even to themselves. Besides the evil feeling it may bring to oneself, the worship of money can bring misfortune to others too. The old woman Lisa suffered from the sense of guilt all her life. Even before her death, she could not unload this guilty feeling. It was her evil doing that made Oliver totally a bastard and suffer a lot of humiliation. If at the beginning Lisa didn’t conceal the ring belonging to that pity woman, Oliver might lead a completely different life.

 

2.4 Criticism of the individualism
In the Victorian times, the capitalists believed that society can run smoothly if individuals search for their own benefits. If all the public held this idea, no one could foresee what the individuals would do to satisfy their own desire.
Ironically, this clearest pronunciation of individualism came not from a legitimate businessman, but from Fagin, who operated in the illegal businesses of theft and prostitution. In order to meet his own interest, Fagin misled several generations of children to do the criminal actions, such as stealing the stuff from others, blackmailing the child who was on the shopping road. It was Fagin’s searching for his individualism that led to many children’s unfortunate fate.

 

3. Romantic realism in Oliver Twist
Romantic Realism is an aesthetic term that usually refers to art that deals with the themes of volition and value while also acknowledging objective reality and the importance of technique. Dickens is such a great writer who is characterized by his perfect combination of realism with romanticism本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。