This is an extract from "Hard Times", by Charles Deckens.
The text highlights how bad the conditions of children in workhouses were.



Deckens esplores the characters through their actions and their speech, his analysis is deep and detailed.
In addiction he describes the characters throught the use of the grotesque and pathos: it is clearly visible when one guy says to wanted to eat another guy,
because he was hungry.This is an example of the exaggeration of thones throught which Dickens wanted to denunce the conditions of hunger of poor children.

An exemle of pathos is provided in the scene when Oliver had spoon and bowl in his hand as a shield and sword: on a first moment the imagine makes the reader laught,
even if he was scared.

Oliver was innocence: he represented a hero, a man of values.


The text reflects the Victorian mentality: the master is a man and he has to supervise, while the servants are women and they have to work.
This goes to evidence the Victorian's mentality: women were inferior to men.

 
The novelist provides a critic of Materialism and Utilitarianism and of squalor in districts.