The aim of this work is to investigate and discuss the motives and rhetorical devices of Charles Dickens's portrayal of children. This unfolds through an analysis of four of his novels, which are Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations. In its first part, the ongoing study has first and foremost highlighted such motives as children's unfair relationships with their entourage made up of people who victimise them during the Victorian era, an era of Industrial Revolution. It has also shown that children's misfortunes seldom come singly. Fortunately, these...