In Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens conveys others’ power over Oliver by using dramatic flavor and literary style to make the reader feel its emotion. It is not plainly stated, but as the reader reads on, one can sense that Oliver is but helpless, while the others have, to a certain extent, such a control over him.

“But his heart was heavy, notwithstanding; and he wished, as he crept into his narrow bed, that that were his coffin, and that he could be lain in a calm and lasting sleep in the churchyard g

Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:

Her silver visage in the watery glass,

Literary style is immensely used in the works of William Shakespeare. He uses it to his advantage to explain his themes. It can be interpreted easily as some are said plainly as it can get, but his literary style can often – mostly – be symbolic. Consider the following from A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,

Through Athens' gates have we devis'd to steal.

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