Major Characters of Oliver Twist • Name: Maru Janak J

• Roll No:22• M.A: Sem-2

• Paper: (6) The Victorian Literature• Email: marujanak17@gmail.com

• Submitted To: M.K.Bhavnagar University Department of English

Introduction:

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812) was an English writer and social critic. who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and the creator of some of the world's most memorable fictional characters.

Major Characters Of Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Nancy

Fagin

The novel’s protagonist. Oliver is an orphan born in workhouse. Oliver is between nine and twelve years old when the main action of the novel occurs.

Oliver Twist :

Oliver spends his childhood in a badly run orphanage and he shifted to the workhouse for adults.He also victimize by poverty. He is a pious, innocent child, and his charms draw the attention of several wealthy benefactors.

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Nancy is prostitute, and she is a symbol of “fallen women”.Nancy is in Fagin's gang member. Nancy’s love for sikes exemplifies the moral ambiguity of her character.Her criminal lifestyle, she is among the noblest character in the novel.Nancy’s character suggests that the boundary between virtue and vice is note always clearly drawn.

Nancy:

Fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick-pockets for him.He is Ugly, simpering, miserly, and avaricious.He is also a buyer of other people’s stolen goods.Fagin is more than a statement of ethic prejudice.He is a richly drawn, resonant embodiment of terrifying villainy.Fagin is meant to inspire nightmares in child and adult readers a like.

Fagin :

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