What is the moral or meaning of the story 'Oliver Twist' ?

Question

The movie from 2004, and the book that it was based from ?

Answer 1

Oliver Twist is the story of an orphaned boy who after being shunted from orphanage to apprenticeship is brought into a life of crime and coercion.  Through his journey Oliver meets both friends and foes alike, and ends up finding family, as well as tragedy in unexpected places.

Oliver Twist is an exposition of the failure of charity, and illustrates the consequences of the Poor Law of 1834. The novel shows the follies of extreme individualism with the example of Fagin’s gang. With this novel, Dickens also investigated whether purity of spirit can persevere in corrupt surroundings. A corollary theme to this is the idealization of the countryside beyond the city confines.