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Oliver Twist and Hedda Gabler: Commentary on the Social Conditions of that Both Charles Dickens and Henrik Ibsen, writing at the onset of the Industrial Revolution, made their literary work a commentary on the social conditions of the time. Their work illustrates ....

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.... public. These qualities, the want to control, greed, envy, idleness and jealousy, to name a few, are hidden from those they interact with, but there are some that they associate with that they reveal their mind to. But those that know are of a like mind to them. "Birds of a feather flock together", it has been said. It has certainly been true to the characters in Ibsen's and Dickens' work. In Oliver Twist, Fagin and his gang are of like qualities, all being thieves and gangsters, with whom poor Oliver unwittingly falls in with. Oliver, being a kind and innocent soul, is beguiled by Fagin and his boys into joining them for time. He ....