CHARLES DICKENS''S NOVEL "OLIVER TWIST" AS A NOVEL-ALLEGORY OF THE GOD AND THE DEVIL
In the novels written by Ch. Dickens, Oliver Twist is the only child who manages to stay the same until the end of the novel. He managed to go through a kind of initiation or "forbidden threshold", but he did not change and stayed alive. Thus, the image of a boy is psychologically quite conditional. Why? The answer to this question is the purpose of this article, in which the novel "Oliver Twist" written by Ch. Dickens is considered and analyzed as an allegory of the God and the Devil, based on the study of archetypes of C.G. Jung. The novel of Ch. Dickens is inextricably linked with Christian symbolism, ancient view of the world. In order to consider it from this point of view it is necessary to rely on the ideas of C.G. Jung's archetypes that cause complex ideas to life, acting as mythological motifs. They are mediated by the consciousness of the author and are displayed in the form of conditional statements, in which the visual image is something "other." The approach of Ch. Dickens to write this novel was inspired by Rousseau's concept of the original innocence of the child, as well as the romantic poets who gave the childhood the highest sacred value. Introducing Oliver Twist as a sacred, unchanging static entity in a severely fallen world, the writer conveys his image of God or the divine archetype of the child, as opposed to the archetype of the Devil embodied in Fagin.