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With all of the symbolism and moral issues represented in , all seem to come from real events from the life of its author, Charles Dickens. The novels protagonist, Oliver, is a good person at heart surrounded by the filth of the London streets. Filth that Dick ....

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.... arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle. The whole beginning of 's story was created from memories which related to Charles Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory (which was overshadowed by the Marshalsea Prison ). While working in the blacking factory, Dickens suffered tremendous humiliation. This humiliation is greatly expressed through Oliver's adventures at the orphanage before he is sent away. Throughout his lifetime, Dickens appeared to have acquired a fondness for "the bleak, the sordid, and the austere.² (Bloom 231) Most of , for example, takes place in London's lowest slums. The city is described as a maze which involves a "mystery of da ....