The main action of Oliver Twist moves between two worlds: the filthy slums of London and the clean and comfortable house of Brownlow and the Maylies. The first world is real and frightening. While the other is idealized, almost like a dream, in its security and beauty. The world of London is a world of crime. Things happen there at night, in dark alleys and in abandoned and dark buildings. You can find examples of this in Chapter XV, when Oliver is kidnapped and again in Chapter XXVI, when Fagin meets Monks. Such darkness suggests that evil dominates this world. Dickens often uses weather conditions to help establish a scene. In Oliver Twist, bad things happen in bad weather. A difference of Fagin's London, the sunlit days and the fragrant flowers of the house of Maylies or the beautiful library of Brownlow are filled with kindness and health. Also the story takes place in an orphanage, where Oliver lived.
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