This is my presentation on child labor in Oliver twist...

1. Topic: Child Labour in Oliver Twist
Paper Name: The Victorian
Literature
Paper No.: 6
Name: Bhatt Urvi
Roll No: 32
Std: M.A.
Sem: 2
Submitted to: Department of
English Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University

2. About Book
Historical
fiction
Social
criticism
Portrayal of
criminals

3. Recruitment
of children
Presence of
street
children
Child labor
Contemporary
evil

4. About unfortunate child Oliver
• Forced into a life
of poverty and
misfortune in
workhouse
• first nine years at
baby farm
• An apprentice at
Mr. Sowerberry an
Undertaken
• Went to London

5. • Become a
victim of
Jewish criminal
• Fagin and his
gang of
pickpockets
• Mystery of a
child called
Oliver

6. Industrial revolution
in Europe
• Made people to leave the
agriculture.
• Attracted towards
factories and machinery.
• World war I and II ruined
the agriculture economy.
• Young and children were
forced to work for their
livelihood.

7. Crises of Urban
society
• People started
migrating to cities
• Children benefited
the criminals
• Disease and lack of
food
• Habitation problems

8. Upper and lower class
in society
• The picture of
gloomy poverty
stricken society
of lower class.
• Charles himself
belonged to class
–worked in
warehouse at the
age of twelve .

9. Literature and
childhood
• Dickens himself
did not get proper
wages as a child.
• Moll Flanders by
Denial Defoe.
• Jane Eyre by
Charlotte Bronte.
• Literature is the
mirror of the
society and thus
shows both the
sides of coin.

10. Movie and Child labor
• Film industry plays an
important role
• awakening the people
• Heart renders at the painful
sight of small children working
• Movie Oliver Twist shows the
gloomy life of small orphans

11. Poverty
• Strike the war stricken
economy of all the
countries.
• Child slavery ruined the
childhood.
• Atmosphere of cold
country and poverty
crippled the growth of
children physically and
mentally.

12. Child victim
• Poverty,
illiteracy
forced
children to
live in
grimness
• Odd jobs

13. Orphanages in the
contemporary
• Orphanages and residential
schools
• Not given enough food
• Ill-treated
• Oliver Twist was treated
badly at the orphanage
• Forced to ask for food
second time an his
punishment was severe.
• Picture of his
contemporary life

14. India and child
labor
• Our county’s Past was glorious.
• Many problems related with child labour.
• Government has been trying hard to implement
the laws.
• A vast country need awareness.
• It eats away the progress of children.
• Restricts mental and physical development.
• Our slum area are full of such examples.

15. Conclusion