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It's generally agreed among Dickensian experts that most of Dickens's books contain some autobiographical content and this is the most autobiographical of them all. One thing from his own personal experience to which he hoped to draw attention was the reform of child labor laws. It was considered a huge gain by reformers when work hours for children were lowered to 10 hours a day, and reformers like Dickens pressed even more insistently for improvements to conditions, pay and injuries. On a somewhat more personal level, the book can be viewed as wish-fulfillment, the old "prince and pauper" syndrome. Most children fantasize at some point that their "real" parents are not those with which they live. Dickens's parents were obviously less than ideal and Oliver Twist is seen as his efforts to expiate that lack.

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