Humour in Dickens’ Oliver Twist: A strategy to reveal the corruption in Victorian era

Fithriyah Inda Nur Abida; Fahri Fahri; Diana Budi  Darma

doi:10.21744/lingcure.v6nS2.1982

Authors

Fithriyah Inda Nur Abida
fithriyahabida@unesa.ac.id
Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia
Fahri Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia
Diana Budi Darma Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia

Keywords:

corruption, distinctive creative process, humour, linguistic structures, novels

Abstract

This paper attempts to investigate the use of humour in revealing the idea of corruption in Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist. Corruption was a huge problem in London in the 1830s when Dickens was writing. Oliver Twist was one of his best novels that portrayed how corruption lived. Through this novel, he also wanted to show how social and cultural at that time created corrupt behavior in the society. The art of humour created by Dickens is an interesting strategy to deliver the message of corruption. By understanding the art of humour that consists of idiomatic expression, social and cultural context, would help the translator to capture a distinctive creative process that incorporates the linguistic structures and cultural environment of the target language while at the same time remaining as faithful as possible to the original.

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