Themes of Oliver Twist The novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a tale of a young orphan boy who enters this world, according to Dickens as an “it”. For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble by the parish surgeon it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the li