comparison and contrast between character of tom jones and oliver twist
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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: [email protected]
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.
