Analysis Of Victorian London As The Personification Of Brutality

2.3. Victorian London as the Personification of Brutality and Criminality London in Oliver Twist is encompassed by fog, smoke and soot flakes that block earth from heaven which creates a dismal sense and signifies loss of contact with the bright world. These elements are reinforced by mud which covers the face of earth as if a deluge has just retired, a thing which suggests chaotic destruction and adds to the general atmosphere of paralysis, disorder, ambiguity, insecurity and isolation which are associated with the life at that period. A world that lacks moral sense . Throughout the Industrial Revolution, the face of Britain underwent a great change. Ancient cities like London, which became a centre of various new industries grew in size and population at a great rate. So did the other cities of Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, and Leeds which in a few decades became urbanised,
65 Ibid.,pp.113-114 These new conditions make life in the city is very crowd. They became famous for overcrowding, un healthy and squalid living conditions. Many people believed that the slums were the outcome of laziness, vice and sin of the lower classes. However, the growth of slums was caused by poverty, unemployment, social exclusion and homelessness. Dickens encourages people to live in the countryside . Purity and healthy are there . He shows in Oliver Twist the idealism of the countryside's life :

There was the little church, in the morning,with the green leaves fluttering at the windows: the birds singing without:filling the homely building with its fragrance. The poor people were soneat and clean, and knelt so reverently in assembling there together; andthough the singing might be rude, it was real, and sounded more musical (to Oliver’s ears at least) than any he had ever heard in church before. " ( p.