The authorities in Oliver Twist seem to not care about the situation with the poor. I decided to look into the situation, to see if the government had actually been so cruel to the poor. I found that this is exactly what they did. Apparently the rich thought that the poor had brought this on themselves. Many have the outlook that the poor need to be punished, rather than pitied. An example of such character would be Mr. Bumble. He believes that the children deserve to be punished, so he often hits them with a cane. I believe that this is true, considering I have found that the workhouses described actually existed, and the authorites must have known about the conditions there. The common outlook that the poor are inferior, and the terrible economy led to the authorites knowing about the mistreatment and ignoring it.
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