Three Reflections on Oliver Twist《雾都孤儿》三映像分析文档格式.docx

1、Abstract: Oliver Twist, as a great novel of English critical realism, is a powerful exposure of the capitalism and it reveals deeply about the situation of society in the 1830s. In the novel, the descriptions of the social background and the characters have their own meanings and connotations. An an

2、alysis of the Poor Law and the ineffectiveness of charitable institutions associated with the social situation of that time and the incorruptibility of goodness on the protagonist are made in this paper. Also discussed in this paper is the anti-Semitism that was indicated when the author created the

3、 character “Fagin” in the novel. And the main purpose of the paper is to get some further understanding of the novel. Key Words: Oliver Twist；Charles Dickens；The Poor Law; goodness; anti-Semitism摘 要: 雾都孤儿是一部伟大的英国现实主义作品，它有力地揭示了英国十九世纪三十年代的社会现状。小说中，不论是对时代背景的选材还是个中人物形象的描写都赋予了其自身的意义和内涵，它不但体现了与当时社会现状相联系的贫

4、民法和低工作效率的慈善机构的缺陷，而且还对主人公的人性善良做了大量描写。本文将对这两方面及作者在塑造 “费金”这一人物形象时所体现出来的自身的反犹主义倾向做出分析，以期达到对作品以及其背景有一个更深层次的了解与掌握。关键词: 雾都孤儿；查尔斯狄更斯；贫民法；善良；反犹主义Contents1.The author, the story and the social background.11.1Main content of the story.11.2Charles Dickensthe author of Oliver Twist.21.3The social background of t

5、he 1830s in England.32. Three reflections on Oliver Twist.42.1The ineffectiveness of charitable institutions and the Poor Law.42.2The incorruptibility of goodness.62.3The authors anti-Semitism.73.Conclusion.8Bibliography.9Acknowledgement.101. The author, the story and its social backgroundCharles Di

6、ckens is a famous English writer as we know and his novels are popular with a lot of readers. His massive work, Oliver Twist, is one of his masterpieces. It is a story about an orphan, but it is not a simple novel at all. The long piece of fiction reveals deeply the English society in the 1830s. Rea

7、ding the novel, we cannot only have an enjoyment of reading, but an enjoyment of the spirit. On the surface, the novel is not a very difficult one, but the great author has the ability to contribute a lot to its themes, making it more profound than just an interesting story. 1.1 Main content of the

8、storyOliver Twist was born in the lying-in room of a parochial workhouse about 75 miles north of London. His mothers name was unknown. She had been found unconscious on the roadside, exhausted by a long journey on foot, and she died leaving as the only token of her childs identity a locket and a rin

9、g. But the old woman, Sally, a pauper present at her death, stole these. Oliver spent his first nine years in a badly run home for young orphans and then is transferred to a workhouse for adults. Bumble, the parish beadle, gave the little boy a name of “Oliver Twist” in the order of an alphabetical

10、system he had devised. In the workhouse, after the other boys bullied Oliver into asking for a second serving of porridge at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble offered five pounds to anyone who could take the boy away from the Parish. Oliver narrowly escaped being apprenticed to a brutish chimneysweeper

11、and was eventual apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. When the undertakers other apprentice, Noah Claypole, made disparaging comments about Olivers mother, Oliver attacked him and incurred the Sowerberrys wrath. At that night, Oliver bundled up his meagre belongings and started out for

12、 London.In a London urban, Oliver, starved and exhausted, met Jack Dawkins, sharp-witted slum pickpocket, who was known as Artful Dodger, offered Oliver lodgings in the city, and Oliver soon found himself in the midst of a gang of thieves. The head of the gang was an old Jew, Fagin, and the other ch

13、ief members were the burglar, Bill Sikes and his mistress Nancy, also the Artful Dodger. Then every effort was made to convert Oliver into a thief. On his first mission he was caught and taken to the police station. Here he was rescued by kindly Mr. Blownlow, the man whose pocket Oliver was accused of having pocketed. He took the feverish Oliver to his home and nurses him back to he