Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist – is Charles Dickens’s second novel, a social critique that follows an orphan’s journey through the brutal workhouse system and London’s criminal underworld before he is rescued and discovers his true identity. The novel highlights themes of poverty, social injustice, and the triumph of innate goodness over a corrupt environment. Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in a provincial English town, where his mother dies shortly after childbirth. He endures a miserable existence, suffering neglect and abuse, and famously asks for “more” gruel, for which he is punished. He is then apprenticed to an undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry, but after further mistreatment, he runs away to London.