Important Characteristic in Oliver Twist

                                     Name   : Savani Manisha R

SEM: II

M.A: I

Paper:  E-C 204 Victorian age.

Topics: Important Characteristic in Oliver Twist

Submitted to,

Dr, Dilip Barad

Department of English,

Bhavnager University

  Introduction:-           

The character in Oliver Twist can be roughly divided into three groups with Oliver Twist and, to a certain extent, Monks acting as a link among them.

The first group callousness and cruelty of workhouse.

The second group belongs to the crime world.

The third group belongs to the middle class word in which Oliver ultimately finds a place.

The important character is Oliver twist, Fagin, Bill Sikes, The Artful Dodger on which the second group Fagin, Bill Sikes and Artful Dodgers come in second group and Oliver come in third group.

Oliver:-

Oliver, as the child hero of melodramatic novel of social protest as the novel’s protagonist. He is also a link among the three different worlds depicted in the novel, the workhouse the crime world and the world of the genteel middle class people. Oliver twist himself is the most obvious example the name ‘’Twist’ through given by accident alludes to the outrageous reversal of fortune that he will experience. Dickens describes Oliver as an’ item of mortality’ Till the end of the novel nothing is specifically known about his parents. The name that he bears is given to him just by chance. All this suggests that Dickens wanted to make him an instrument of exposing the inhumanity and the callousness of the workhouse and the understand. He is a mobile character and the novelisMakes him forty come across the different cross section of the society in order to expose them.

Oliver twist is meant to appeal more to our sentiments than tour literary sensibilities. On many levels ,Oliver is not a believable character, because although he is raised in corrupt surrouging, his purity, and virtue are absolute .Throughout the novel, Dickens uses Oliver’s character to challenge the Victorian idea that paupers and crime are already evil at birth, arguing instead that a corrupt environment is the source of vice . At the same time, Oliver incorruptibility undermines some of Dickens assertions. When Sikes and Crack it force him to assist in a robbery Oliver mealy begs to be allowed to ‘’run away and die in the fields’’ liver does not present a complex picture of a person form between good and evil instead .he is goodness incarnate even if we might feel that Dickens social criticism would have been more effective if he had focused on a more complex person.

Fagin:-

Dickens has made Fagin a Jew and through the novel he identifies himself as á Jew Fagin is the leader of aging of young pick- pocket, who also deals in stolen goods and is quite willing to understand any other villain that might offer him some material benfitsIt is Fagin who is entrusted with the job of convening Oliver into a criminal by Monks. He is referred to as a merry old gentleman and later a number of other epithets like ‘kind’ ’merry’ ‘ pleasant’ or ‘playful’ are applied to him. This throughout the novel Fagin is described in terms of animal imagery. Fagin is the very essence of evil. As Saturn corrupted Adam and Eve and caused their fall from paradise, Fagin corrupts innocent children.

Bill Sikes:-

Bill Sikes is the most terrifying figure in the novel. He is a thief and house breaker for whom there are no limits and no laws except his own self. Dickens tries to reinforce this picture of Sikes with a number of adjective like ‘savage’ surly’ and desperate Sikes outward appearance revel Dickens’s belief that in human beings there is a kind of correspondence between the inner nature and external appearance. Oliver‘s innocence is reflected on his face and so is the monstrosity Sikes.

The Artful Dodger:-

The Artful Dodger, who read name is Jack, Dawkins, is Fagin‘s chief pupil. He is initially responsible for taking Oliver to Fagin‘s den. HE is also the most prominent figure among a host of boys that include charley bates and Tom chilling. He is more resourceful than all the other and he stand out like a splash of color in the dark understand.

The Artful Dodger is one of those characters whose external appearance is fully described

The Dodger has no scruples whatsoever, He is ready to desert a companion if need be. The Artful Dodger precedes so wittily and defiantly against the great villain of the time the court.