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- Oliver Twist. The novel’s protagonist. Oliver is an orphan born in a workhouse, and Dickens uses his situation to criticize public policy toward the poor in 1830 s England.
- Fagin. A conniving career criminal. Fagin takes in homeless children and trains them to pick pockets for him. He is also a buyer of other people’s stolen goods.
- Nancy. A young prostitute and one of Fagin’s former child pickpockets. Nancy is also Bill Sikes’s lover. Her love for Sikes and her sense of moral decency come into conflict when Sikes abuses Oliver.
- Rose Maylie. Agnes Fleming’s sister, raised by Mrs. Maylie after the death of Rose’s father. A beautiful, compassionate, and forgiving young woman, Rose is the novel’s model of female virtue.
Oliver innocently begins Fagin's training, but when he goes out with the Dodger and another boy and sees them stealing a handkerchief from an old gentleman named Mr Brownlow, he realizes the truth. While the Dodger and the other boy escape, Oliver is pursued, apprehended, formally arrested and tried before Magistrate Fang.
Oliver Twist is the title character and protagonist of the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. [1] . He was the first child protagonist in an English novel. [2] Background. The orphan, young Oliver is born in a parish workhouse in an unnamed town. [3] . His unmarried mother dies during labour. [4] .
Brownlow's cantankerous friend, Grimwig does not believe, initially, in Oliver's virtue, and commonly uses the expression, "I'll eat my hat." At the end of the novel, he enjoys joking about how he used to not believe in Oliver's goodness, once Oliver proves it.
Mar 6, 2018 · Our main heroine is Olivia Brownlow who grew up on the streets of London as an orphan and a thief, pretending to be a boy for safety reasons, before being found by her uncle and introduced into English high society.
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The titular protagonist, Oliver Twist is orphaned at birth and brought up by the parish under circumstances that amount to child abuse. Despite his ill treatment, Oliver is a kind, honest boy who is quick to forgive. He is motivated by the desire to help those in need and by gratitude to those who help him.
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Olivia Brownlow has been an upper-class Victorian young lady for a few years. Before that she lived with the orphans, starving, and surviving by theft. This act took tremendous courage, as the penalty for being caught thieving was hanging.
