Everything told of life and animation, but one dark cluster of objects in the centre of all – the black stage, the cross-beam, the rope, and all the hideous apparatus of death.

Background.

‘Everything told of life and animation, but one dark cluster of objects in the centre of all – the black stage, the cross-beam, the rope, and all the hideous apparatus of death‘ is a quotation from Oliver Twist (Chapter 52).

Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy’s Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1837.

 

Context.

Description of the gallows, prepared for Fagin, amongst a great crowd of people outside Newgate prison.

 

 

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