Charles Dickens. Summary of "The Adventures of Oliver Twist"

The book "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" was the seconda great work for the twenty-five-year-old Charles Dickens. This book is an important milestone in his life. After its publication, as they say, the British writer woke up famous.

The young classic did his job: he wrote a deliberately controversial book, at the risk of not being "accepted" by Pasternak's later definition, creating a "cubic piece of smoking conscience". In addition to the romantic novel, which is typical for novels of the 18th century, Dickens' book carries a social function, it reveals the plight of the children of the lower strata, as well as the distancing of the authorities from solving their primary problems. We will try to outline the summary. "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" - a novel that contains a statement of an obvious social problem. The child is unprotected. His perspective: on the one hand, state institutions that steal people's childhood and deprive adults of prospects, and on the other - a criminal world involving children, crippling, and then killing them at a young age.

C. Dickens "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" sets out in chronological order. The boy was born in a workhouse. His father is unknown, but his young mother died at the first birth. His childhood is devoid of a smile, it was only one continuous discrimination with beatings, half-starved existence and humiliation. From the government house he was given an apprentice to the master-undertaker. Here he encountered cruelty and injustice, so he escaped.

He goes to London, where he falls into the spherethe influence of the leader of thieves, the Jew Fagin. He persistently tries to teach the boy to steal. But for Oliver Twist, the moment when, in his eyes, the "instructors" the Sly Dodger and Charlie Bates "get" a handkerchief from a gossiped gentleman, becomes the moment of truth. He, horrified, rushes away, and those around him are caught as a thief. Unfortunately, all the emotions of the child does not convey a summary.

The adventures of Oliver Twist illuminate, finally,a ray of light: to his happiness, Oliver under these circumstances gets acquainted with Mr. Brandlou (who is still acting as a victim). This man later changed the fate of the boy, exploring his pedigree and at the end of the book becoming his adoptive father. After trying again to get the guy involved in a robbery (Fajin contrives to kidnap him from Mr. Brandlaw), he, wounded, ends up in the family of Mrs. Maylie, who has a girlfriend, Rose (the youngest sister of her late mother Oliver), as her adoptive niece. Suddenly, a girl Nancy, who lives near Fijin's accomplice, comes to their house and tells the overheard dark plans of the criminals concerning the unhappy boy.

Realizing that the life and fate of the boy is in danger,Rose in search of an assistant accidentally meets Mr. Brandlaw. He conducts a whole investigation, attracting to him other worthy people. The plot becomes more interesting - even brief content speaks about it. "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" acquire the features of a good detective. Gradually, the "skeletons in the closet" come up. It turns out that the deceased mother of Oliver Agnes, like the boy, after the age of majority (provided that he grows up a decent man) inherited from the lover suddenly died in Rome. For the deceased Mr. Lifford, a married man, the girl's love was the only joy. His wife was a real monster, and Edwin's son (later became Monksom) already from childhood showed a penchant for a criminal way. Upon learning of the death of Lifford in Rome, the legal wife arrived and destroyed the will, then appeared to the mistress's father and threatened him, a weak person, to change his last name and flee with two daughters from home. The disgraced Agnes runs away from her father into a workhouse, where she dies during the birth of Oliver. Her father, believing that the eldest daughter committed suicide, also dies of grief. The youngest daughter is taken to the family of Mrs. Maylie.

We conclude our summary. "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" - a novel that reveals the underworld of the underworld: meanness and self-interest. Having become a complete villain, Monks learns from his mother about his half-brother Oliver. He instructs Fagin to make an innocent boy a thief and, "stretching out through the prisons," lead to a visilic. The plan is infernal, but at stake is an inheritance. Mr. Brandlaw already knows about his personality, who went to the hiding scoundrel even without the help of the brave Nancy, who was brutally murdered by the accomplice Fagin. He "pins the scoundrel to the wall" by means of incontrovertible facts and threatening to extradite justice (in this case, the criminal is waiting for the gallows). This he forces Monks to leave the country without prospects for a return and an inheritance. Justice triumphs. The perpetrator who killed Nancy does not live up to the investigation, and the villain Fagin receives the gallows for his "merits" by a court decision.

The novel "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" after histhe publication has stirred up a considerable public resonance. The book of the classic was raised to the level of national discussion a significant problem: disadvantaged children, growing up in an indifferent society, turn into his garbage. They wander, and to survive, go to crimes.