The Great Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist at the beginning of the Victorian Age and in the middle of the Industrial Revolution, inside the construction of Railways. This novel is a great example of the consequences of the urbanization of central cities: poverty, discrimination, child labor, orphans, rejection and class discomfort in society.
Oliver’s story portraits the child work in terms of he and other peers should work and the most of the time steal for other older people who did not have job, thus, they did not have food to eat. Therefore, this story shows a huge scarcity rate that is a strong characteristic from the Victorian Era. Progress is very ambiguous word that strongly belongs to this story about Modernity. I this time, progress or modernity had not occurred without child work hard and their role of the adults’ survival.
Other aspect that appears in this novel is about the good and the evil; Oliver as the good living in the evil world as Fagin committed criminal acts stealing to the people. In those times, people were losing their religion or their faith because of the scientifical discoveries and what they had been living, their bad experiences in life, in their society that mean disappointment and hopeless. So, Oliver experienced the life inside the evil, although he was there and it was so hard to escape from, he finally finished in a well way, I mean, in a better way of living than in the beginning.
Realizing what I wrote and what the story is about, I see our society nowadays as same as what Charles Dickens portraits in his novel. For this reason, are we more modern than Victorian Age society? Have we progressed in our social life? Perhaps, this time is more comfortable in terms of technology, but we still live what Dickens wrote 172 years ago…