Oliver Twist provides insight into the experience of the poor in 1830s England. Beneath the novel’s humor and dramatic plot runs an undertone of bitter criticism of the Victorian middle class's attitudes toward the poor. Dickens's Oliver Twist very vividly critisizes the legal system, workhouses, and middle class moral values and marriage practices of 1830s England. Basic Situation: Oliver Twist is born a sickly infant in a workhouse. His birth is attended by the …showed first 75 words of 839 total…

…showed last 75 words of 839 total…is sentenced to death by hanging for being an accomplice to murder. Brownlow arranges for the remains of Monks' property to be sold and the proceeds divided between Monks and Oliver. Monks travels to the New World where he squanders his share and turns to a life of vice for which he is arrested. He dies in a prison. Brownlow adopts Oliver as his son. And the story of Oliver Twist ends happily ever after.