文档介绍：Oliver Twist
The author
Characters
Plot
What I learn
1,The Author
Charles John Huffam Dickens, (–), was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work.
His works are intended to expose and criticize all the poverty,injustice,hypocrisy and corruption of the 19th-century England, particularly London.
1) Sketches by Boz
«博兹特写集», the first book
2) The Pickwick Papers
«匹克威克外传»
3. Oliver Twist
«奥克佛·特维斯特»,《雾都孤儿》
4. Nichols Nickleby
«尼古拉斯·尼克尔贝»
5. The Old Curiosity Shop
«老古玩店»
6. Barnaby Rudge 巴纳比·拉奇
2,Characters
Oliver Twist
The novel’s protagonist. He is an orphan born in a workhouse, and Dickens uses his situation to criticize public policy toward the poor in 1830s in England. Though he is treated with cruelty and surrounded by coarseness for most of his life, he is a pious(虔诚的), innocent child, and his charms draw the attention of several wealthy benefactors(恩人). His true identity is the central mystery of the novel.
Fagin
Fagin takes in homeless children and trains them to pick pockets for him. He is also a buyer of other people’s stolen goods. He mits crimes himself, preferring to employ others to do such thing.
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 e into conflict when Sikes abuses Oliver. Despite her criminal lifestyle, she is among the noblest characters in the novel. In the end, she gives her life for Oliver when Sikes murders her for revealing Monks’s plots.