comparison and contrast between character of tom jones and oliver twist

Prepared by: Virji Bathvar

Topic: comparison and contrast between

characters of Tom Jones and Oliver Twist

Roll no:1

paper no: 06 Victorian literature

submitted :Department of English m.k.b.u

email id: bathvarvirji@gmail.com

Oliver Twist

Title :Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress

Author: Charles Dickens

Published: February 1837

Tom Jones

Title: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones

Author: Henry fielding

Published: 28 February 1749

Comparison between Oliver and Tom

Oliver Oliver is child hero

who is orphan.He is noble hero. He is not

marrying. He is innocent and

noble child and he is not like other child, and that he prove it when he say ‘I want some more’.

Tom Tom is young hero

who is orphan. He is anti hero. He is marrying with

Sophia. He is good but he

has affairs with many women and that's why he consider as anti hero.

Oliver and Tom

Both are archetypal heroes Oliver is like ‘Ram’

who believed in old morality.

Oliver is become happy in the end of the novel adopting by some one and getting parents.

Tom is like ‘Krishna’ who believed in new morality.

Tom is become happy at the end of the novel marrying with Sophia.

Conclusion

So after all comparing these two characters, we can say that there are various types of people every where whether in India or England. Everybody has their own good and bad side.

And those things we can see in literature also. Everything made by us all types of moralities, culture, rituals, etc.