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Item A MARXIST APPROACH TO CHILD LABOUR IN OLIVER TWIST, DAVID COPERFIELD, AND HARD TIMES(2022-02-24) Haroon, Yahia; Aras, GökşenThe thesis aims to study the theme of child labour in Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Hard Times with regard to Marxist approach. The ideas that are to be highlighted are the exploitation and abuse of children during the time in which these three novels are written. For instance, in Oliver Twist the appalling conditions in the workhouse, pocket picking, prostitution, and criticism of the Poor law in 1834 will be studied. In David Copperfield, many social issues might be found; Dickens focuses on the child mistreatment and beating by giving examples for that. The first example is that, David is beaten and mistreated by his stepfather and his sister. In the second example, students in Salem House School are abused and beaten. As for class difference and its influence, Dickens creates two models. Steerforth from upper class and Mr. Mell from the lower class. Dickens shows how Mr. Mell is fired from school after confronting Steerforth. In Hard Times, inserting material ideas into the mind of school children run by Mr. Creakle who is adopting the idea of Utilitarianism. All in all, the above mentioned and the related topics are to be analyzed in accordance with the Marxist ideology to reveal upper class' exploitation of the working class or the poor in general.