Oliver Twist
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Analysis:
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Oliver Twist, written by Charles Dickens has
references to 93 unique locations in London, some simply streets and others well-known
monuments; including all multiplicities of the references, this novel contains
193 total references. The references in this book occurred in chunks, because
when the characters were traveling, they would explain each road they used and
every town they moved through. Other than London, which was used 35 times, the most
used Clerkenwell with 8, then Chertsey with 7, and Pentonville tied with
Saffron hill with 6. However, the position of Clerkenwell in these standings
may be somewhat skewed because the reference was mentioned 6 of the 8 times in
one instance by the Beedle talking about the “Clerkenwell Sessions” so this
place does not represent a major theme of the novel. However Pentonville, where
Mr. Brownlow lives, is of significance to the novel as it represents a higher
class neighborhood which was in fact the first planned suburb of London. Today Pentonville
is considered an underprivileged inner city district with a very high
unemployment rate; however, during the time of Oliver Twist it was indeed an upper-class area. Saffron Hill, with
the same number of references as Pentonville, was the low-class area where Oliver
was first lead into London and where Fagin lives. Unlike Pentonville, this area
is a commercial district, and in the time of Oliver Twist was home to London’s black market; however, today it
is a thriving commercial district with very little crime. The high frequency of
references to the two distinctly different areas in terms of economics in the
novel correlate to the two primary settings of the novel: Fagin’s den and Mr.
Brownlow’s house. Another major revelation considering the data mapped for Oliver Twist is in novel’s connection to
all the others considering it contains so many single references in close
proximity to other novel’s references.
Data:
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Works Cited:
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Dickens, Charles, and Fred Kaplan. Oliver Twist:
Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Early Reviews, Criticism. New
York: W.W. Norton, 1993. Print.