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Oliver Twist - Key Points

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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Oliver Twist

KEY POINTS - TURN TO PAGE 8
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POINT OF VIEW
The narrator is third person omniscient and assumes the points of view of various characters in turn. The narrator's tone is not objective; it is sympathetic to the protagonist and far less so to the novel's other characters.

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tone

SENTIMENTAL, SOMETIMES IRONIC, HYPERBOLIC, CRUSADING
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setting (time)

1830S
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setting (place)

LONDON; AN UNNAMED SMALLER ENGLISH CITY; ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE
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protagonist

OLIVER TWIST
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THEMES:
- Society and class, poverty, religion, crime, contrasting regions, fate and freewill, identity, the folly of individualism

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Symbols

CHARACTERS' NAMES, BULL'S-EYE, LONDON BRIDGE
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MOTIFS:
Disguised or mistaken identities; hidden family relationships; surrogate families; Oliver's face

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Adrienne Lenardon