Mobbing in Oliver Twist

Abstract

Abstract The appearance and study of child abuse is a phenomenon that may seem very current. As typical of the way of life and the development of the XX and XXI centuries. But it is not, they have always existed and to prove it, we just have to resort to literature, where it appears in all periods of history. From the bible or the Celestina, to the realism of Victor Hugo in Les Miserables. Of all the literary works, Oliver Twist is selected for being the best known and most accurate way of describing child abuse, and due to its proximity in time, as it takes place during the Industrial Revolution. The methodology has been based on analyzing the characters in the text and their circumstances. Being the result that child abuse form the past century isn’t so distant to nowadays’ one. Even if there is greater awareness among the public opinion and legal standards to combat it.