In the Victorian age childhood was generally a cruente experience. Poor children were obligated to work in factories and minies or as domestic servants. Dickens was obsessed by children, indeed he presented them like poor innocents, or, on the other hand, corrupted by adults. The writer’s nostalgia for the innocence of childhood is a critique of the oppressions associated with the word of adults. Indeed, the novel “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens reflects the economic insecurity and humiliation that the writer experienced when he was a child. Oliver was a poor boy of unknown parents, he is brought up in a workhouse in an inhuman way. Throghout the story, Oliver Twist is kidnapped by a gang and forced to commit burglary. It is a middle class fmily that adopts Oliver. At the end, investigations are made about who the boy is and it is discovered he has noble origins.