Have you studied the situation of the orphans in the workhouse? Now describe the
pitiable conditions of the boys in the workhouse
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Rubaha (2008) pointed out that neglect, abuse, lack of parental love, lack of food, high labour demand at home, stigmatised at school because of lack of school uniforms and learning materials to mention but a few are some of the challenges facing orphaned students...
The hardships of the Victorian workhouse led Oliver Twist utter the famous phrase ‘Please Sir, I want some more’. Here Ruth Richardson explores Dickens’s own experiences of poverty and the social and political context in which he was writing.
Most people nowadays know about the Poor Law and its workhouses from Oliver Twist – whether from the book, film or the musical. The image of the skinny neglected little boy asking for more has become a classic. For Charles Dickens, writing a novel about the Poor Law was a thoughtful intervention in a contemporary national debate. You can hear in his tone of voice – occasionally heavy with satire or irony - that he regarded the Poor Law as profoundly un-Christian.
Dickens intended Oliver Twist, first published in monthly instalments between February 1837 and April 1839, to show the system's treatment of an innocent child born and raised in the workhouse system, where no 'fault' could be ascribed to the child. He shows the boys neglected, ill-treated, and experiencing hunger so bad that one child threatens to eat one of the others if he isn't better fed. Oliver has the temerity to ask for more food only because the hungry boys had cast lots to decide who would have to do it - and he had drawn the short straw. In the famous illustration by George Cruikshank, the poor orphan Oliver stands utterly alone – with the fearful threat of cannibalism right behind him, and facing him, the bully of a workhouse master preparing to unleash his powers of retribution. The pauper woman helper in the background recognises the danger of what Oliver has done, throwing up her hands in horror.
Colour illustrations from 1911 edition of Oliver Twist
George Cruikshank’s famous illustration of ‘Oliver asking for more’, from a colour edition of Oliver Twist, 1911.
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The description of Oliver's punishments for his request – a natural entreaty from a growing boy – occupies quite a chunk of the following chapter. The sheer brutality of the system is exposed. Oliver is maligned, threatened with being hanged, drawn and quartered; he is starved, caned, and flogged before an audience of paupers, solitarily confined in the dark for days, kicked and cursed, hauled up before a magistrate and sent to work in an undertaker's, fed on animal scraps, taunted, and forced to sleep with coffins.
Illustration of Oliver Twist by Louisa Corbaux
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A workhouse typically housed orphans. Everybody slept in huge dorms. Girls would frequently share a bed with four other people. Children were required to take three hours of education in reading, writing, math, and the Christian religion each day.
Children were employed in industries, households as servants, and fields. Children had a wide range of talents and performed a variety of tasks, from having to be tiny to work as a scavenger in a cotton mill to pushing large coal trucks down narrow tunnels in coal mines.
They were managed by "Guardians," who were often prominent local businessmen. The administration at these locations was set up specifically to discourage all save the most destitute people. Children were separated, transported away, had their hair shaved, had their garments boiled, and received uniforms.
The workhouse has terrible circumstances. The kids are filthy and hardly fed. Many of the youngsters pass away from illnesses, accidents, and starvation. Thin gruel is provided for the youngsters who reside in the workhouse's three daily meals. The lads, who are starving, decide that one of them must request additional food. Oliver starts a commotion as he approaches the master and begs for more, "Please sir." A sign is then put up outside the workhouse offering to pay someone to take Oliver off their hands and he is subsequently thrown in solitary confinement.
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