Oliver Twist

welcome to...OCTOBER TWIST. this is project long classics , in which i read intimidating books over a whole month and my little treat is i get to come up with a title + time-based pun as i do so. charles dickens books are some of the scariest of all, so only a truly irresistible (read: terrible) pun co Leggi tutto

Oliver Twist THE BOOK is crap and has NO songs in it, I couldn't believe it. So I googled and get this, it turns out they put those in the movie and Dickens had nothing to do with it! But since they were the best bit of the film, you can understand my horror and bereft sense of disappointment when I Leggi tutto

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The dawn of the use of social criticism as main plot element while overusing the modern readers' tolerance for suspension of disbelief by making the whole story a bit too unrealistic optimistic and too full of coincidences, a kind of trademark of Dickens work as he didn´t MacGuffined and Chekhoved e Leggi tutto

In recent years, I have become bewitched by all things gothic, and I was curious to discover to what extent gothic tropes and examplars may have influenced the imagery and structure of Dicken's first serious novel. Specifically, I was interested in how gothic elements might be expressed in "Oliver T Leggi tutto

Beams of Brillance Let’s start off with a confession: Oliver Twist is boring. Good…we got that out of the way. While the plot is tolerable, it can be very slow paced. For example, in one vignette, a dying woman has a confession to make. But it took an entire chapter to get there. Come on! Just spit it Leggi tutto