| dc.description.abstract | Industrial Revolution deals with the social issues such as the poor law,
workhouse, class differences, child labor, and the recruitment of children for
criminal work, bring the people into poverty. Its problems are as the motivation
for people to get much money and cause the spirit of materialism. Materialism is
the belief that having money and possessions is the most important thing in life,
goods is as the primary substance of all living and non-living things. Human
activity tends to fulfill their own needs continously this activity becomes higher
and higher that leads into materialism. This research aims to find out the spirit of
materialism in Oliver Twist novel and relates it with Industrial Revolution. This
thesis uses inductive method in which the problem moves from the specific to the
general and uses Janet Wolff’s theory in analyzing relation Industrial Revolution
and materialism in the novel. The goals of this analysis are to find out the
representation of materialism in Oliver Twist and materialism in novel as the
reflection of the social condition in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.
The result finds that Oliver Twist is the reflection of Industrial Revolution.
Its society deals with the poverty and affects the people to be a materialist. People
will do anything to recover from their economic condition. They try to get the
money as much as they can. Dickens as the author wants to criticize about the
condition of England relates to the children labor and poverty. | en_US |
