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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis. A special acknowledgment should be shown to my supervisor Ms. Ma, who gave me kind encouragement and useful instructions all through my writing. Finally I wish to extend my thanks to all my respected teachers.
Contents
Acknowledgements 3
Contents 4
Abstract 5
Keywords 5
Introduction 7
Introduction of the Author 7
Introduction of the Novel 7
2 Social Background of the Novel 8
The Middle Class’ Attitudes Toward to the Poor in Victorian Time 8
The Charitable Institution in Victorian Time 9
3 The Use of Symbols in Oliver Twist 10
Symbolism----a literary technique 11
The Symbolic Meaning of the Six Main Characters 11
Oliver Twist 11
Maylie 11
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Mrs. Mann 13
Jew 13
The Symbols of the Objects and the Scene 14
Bill Sike’s Dog: Symbol of Bill’s Character 14
Light and Dark: Symbol of Hope and Trap 15
Fog in the Novel 16
The Meeting on London Bridge 16
4 Factors of Using Symbols in Oliver Twist 17
5 Conclusion 17
参考书目(References) 19
Abstract
Oliver Twist is one of the most famous novels of Dickens, which described the living condition of the lowest class of British society in Victory Time. Dickens achieved his biting criticism of social conditions through deep satire and hyperbolic words of symbolic skills and he uses the symbolism so skillfully that it enhances the artistic effects of his works greatly and it made his novel more attractive and essful. In Oliver Twist, symbolism runs through the whole novel and it shows his anger and sympathy to the poor. Dickens used such witting skill to give voice to the poor who did not have right to say anything. In Oliver Twist, Dickens criticized the greed and the laziness of the upper class essfully with an ingenious using symbol skills .In the novel, the name of some main c