1. What does Dickens suggest about English society in... 2. Does this society resemble our society in any...

1. What does Dickens suggest about English society in the early nineteenth century?
2. Does this society resemble our society in any way?
3. How does Oliver Twist change in the course of the movie? Explain.
4. What symbolic role does the city play?
5. Discuss the portrait of the criminal justice system presented in Oliver Twist.
6. Oliver Twist is full of thievery. Some of it is committed by criminals like Sikes
against respectable people like the Maylies, while some of it is committed by
“respectable” people like Mrs. Mann and Mr. Bumble against the poor. How are
these two types of thievery different? What do they have in common?