This research uses a novel from two different countries, namely England and France, entitled Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot. Even though they were written in ...different countries and periods, both novels seem to be related to one another. This research utilizes the theory of intertextuality as a reference for understanding the relationship between the two novels. The social conflict theory from Karl Marx is also used to support the analysis. The method used is descriptive qualitative data sources from the two selected novels. Data collection techniques are based on things related to social conflict relationships in the novel, data collected in the form of words, phrases, and sentences from dialogue and narration. Then, data validation is done by selecting the most dominant data for intertextual analysis. Data analysis is then done by comparing the two texts as the relationship of hypogram and transformation. The results obtained are a link between the two novels in the form of interrelation between the structure of the story, which includes the background, characters and characterizations, and social conflict in the form of social disparity between the bourgeois and proletarian classes. The text of Nobody's Boy is a transformation from Oliver Twist, which gives a description and emphasis on social inequalities that occur even in years that differ greatly between the two so that from these results, it can be concluded that the two novels have an intertextual relationship in terms of influence.
Against the Return of Fagin Marroni, Michela
Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie occidentale,
12/2020, Letnik:
54, Številka:
54
Journal Article
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Bob Fagin was a boy who helped twelve-year-old Dickens during his traumatic experience at Warren’s Blacking Factory. Taking the cue from the discrepancy between the real Fagin and devilish Fagin in ...Oliver Twist, I will consider the reasons underlying Dickens’s choice of this particular name for such a villain. At the same time, in light of the scarcely plausible contrast between Oliver’s innocence and the urban decay surrounding him, I will argue that the novel should be interpreted as a social metaphor whose ethical model is The Pilgrim’s Progress. Indeed, as suggested by the novel’s complete title – The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress – the eponymous hero’s experience can be regarded as a transition from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City where the “principle of good” is ultimately brought into action. However, unlike Bunyan’s motivated and energetic hero, Oliver is a character whose main traits are passivity, innocence, and silence. Although melodramatic and awash with sentimentality, Victorian middle-class readers readily subscribed to the novel’s message based on the final triumph of goodness.
Este artigo tem por objetivo analisar duas publicações da primeira tradução de Oliver Twist para o português brasileiro, traduzida pelos escritores brasileiros Machado de Assis e Ricardo Lísias. ...Pretende-se identificar a estilística de Machado de Assis enquanto tradutor, por meio do romance, e escritor, pelo conto “Miss Dollar”.
Oliver Twist, el huérfano más célebre de la literatura, hizo su aparición en las páginas de Bentley’s Miscellany en febrero de 1837. Desde entonces, su historia ha figurado en todo tipo de medios ...textuales y audiovisuales, de suerte que la imagen del infante de familia desconocida, cuya inocencia le lleva a triunfar ante la injusticia social que lo asedia, guarda una relación indisoluble con la obra de Charles Dickens. El linaje diegético del expósito Oliver se descubre en las páginas finales de la novela que lleva su nombre. Su genealogía artístico-literaria, sin embargo, es un secreto a voces que inspira personajes peculiares y una estructura narrativa basada en coincidencias y revelaciones. En este artículo se exploran algunas de las conexiones más relevantes entre Oliver Twist y las narrativas dieciochescas que le antecedieron. En específico, se atienden los legados de las novelas de Henry Fielding y las narrativas visuales de William Hogarth, los cuales fueron determinantes no sólo en la representación tragicómica de las clases bajas —como se ha llegado a sugerir— sino también en la concepción del protagonista, la caracterización de personajes secundarios y el diseño de la trama principal.
Electoral nostalgia involves a return in thought to an electoral period or to a deed from an electoral period in one's past. This essay is concerned with the electoral engagements of Oladapo Daniel ...Oyebanjo, better known by his moniker D'banj, as these relate to the 2011 presidential election bid of Nigeria's erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan. The essay assesses the role of D'banj as campaign songwriter and observes his immediate post-2011-election works as reactionary performances to the hullabaloo generated by his involvement in President Jonathan's campaign. D'banj's post-election record 'Oliver Twist' (
2011
) is conceptualized as evidence of electoral nostalgia in popular music. The essay offers a critical look into the single by engaging the 'Oliver Twist' concept's English origins, the trigger for the appropriation of the concept by D'banj, the mastermind of the resulting transformative work, its calculated dissemination to target audiences, and the successes it garnered.
This research aims to reveal Fagin’s criminal thought in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and to examine the factors that influence Fagin’s criminal thought presented in the novel. This research is ...classified into library research. The subject of the research is Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’ fiction novel. The novel is used as the primary source, while books, journals, and articles related to criminal thought theories in psychology were taken as the secondary source. A psychological approach is applied to analyze the data. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively. In analyzing the data, the researcher took five steps. The data were collected from reading and re-reading the text, identifying those that embody criminal thinking, categorizing them based on the objectives of the research, comparing them to the theoretical frameworks, and finally interpreting them using a psychological approach. After conducting the research, it can be drawn some conclusions; first, by seeing the eight aspects of criminal thought, Fagin has five aspects which are classified in the high category, and second, the factors that influence Fagin’s criminal thought reflected in the novel are societal and economic, neighbor-hood and local institutions, and drugs.
This paper describes the types of irony used by Charles Dickens in his notable early work, Oliver Twist, as well as the reasons the irony was chosen. As a figurative language, irony is utilized to ...express one’s complex feelings without truly saying them. In Oliver Twist, Dickens brought the readers some real social issues wrapped in dark, deep written expressions of irony uttered by the characters of his novel. Undoubtedly, the novel had left an impact to the British society at the time. The irony Dickens displayed here includes verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. His choice of irony made sense as he intended to criticize the English Poor Laws and to touch the public sentiment. He wanted to let the readers go beyond what was literally written and once they discovered what the truth was, they would eventually understand Dickens’ purposes.
The aim of the present study is to analyse paratextual elements in Croatian (re)translations of Charles Dickens’ classic social novel Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress (1837–1839). We will ...explore the level of paratextual (in)visibility of translators in the (re)translations of Oliver Twist and observe how their (in)visibility might affect the reading and interpretation of the novel. The fact that Oliver Twist has been on the reading lists for Croatian primary schoolers ever since the early 1950s may account for the intense interest in the novel on the part of Croatian publishers. The first edition of Oliver Twist into Croatian appeared in 1901 and, since then, three (re)translations have been published, as well as a large number of reprints. The findings aim to contribute to a better understanding of Croatian translation history, shedding light on different approaches to translating children’s literature and the effects such translation practices may have had on the expectations of the target readership.
Mobbing in Oliver Twist de la Quintana, Alfonso
Procedia, social and behavioral sciences,
02/2017, Letnik:
237
Journal Article
Recenzirano
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The appearance and study of child abuse is a phenomenon that may seem very current. As typical of the way of life and the development of the XX and XXI centuries. But it is not, they have always ...existed and to prove it, we just have to resort to literature, where it appears in all periods of history. From the bible or the Celestina, to the realism of Victor Hugo in Les Miserables. Of all the literary works, Oliver Twist is selected for being the best known and most accurate way of describing child abuse, and due to its proximity in time, as it takes place during the Industrial Revolution. The methodology has been based on analyzing the characters in the text and their circumstances. Being the result that child abuse form the past century isn’t so distant to nowadays’ one. Even if there is greater awareness among the public opinion and legal standards to combat it.
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