The Indelible Nature of Goodness--- A Study of Oliver Twist 英语(毕业论文).docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 The Indelible Nature of Goodness A Study of Oliver Twist 1. Introduction Goodness is one of the most essential characters for a person and it will never be out of date. It is to humans what water is to fish. People who own the quality of goodness are supposed to own happiness in a sense. Goodness can help us overcome every difficulty we may meet or at least remain us in a positive mind. The person who owns the character of goodness undoubtedly will be happier than the one who is evil-minded, for goodness is such a thing that will benefit others as well as us. We should keep goodness in our mind no matter how hard the condition we are in. But to my disappointment, more and more people seem to ignore the importance of goodness. They look down people who are honest and kind-hearted, thinking that they are really silly animals. They show little sympathy to those who are in trouble and never offer to help others. On the contrary, they do harm to those who prevent them from the way to money and power. What’s more, they pick up “goodness” when it can profit them a lot. What a nerve! In their eyes, nothing is more important than themselves. It is obvious that such kind of people will never reach their satisfying goal. They never get real happiness in their whole life because of the countless desire. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age. Oliver Twist is probably the best known of all Dickens’ novels. It strongly exposes the workhouse functions as a sign of the moral hypocrisy of the working class. Oliver is Charles’ first child hero, who is an orphan living in a workhouse from his birth. Because he can’t stand the terrible conditions in the workhouse, he escapes to London where he is trapped by Fagin and the cruel Bill Sikes who try and teach him to become a thief. Though treated with cruelty and surrounded by coarseness for most of his life, he is a piteous, innocent child and his charms draw the attention of