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Feb 12, 2020 · The children in the Oliver Twist illustrations look like miniature adults without the defining characteristics of children, such as the disproportionately large head and soft features which make a child look like a child. Click on an image to obtain a larger version of the illustration
- I. Oliver and His Mother’s Portrait
- II. "Please, Sir, I Want Some more."
- Passage Illustrated: Oliver Asks For More
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- V. Oliver's Flight to London
- Passage Illustrated: Oliver Starts For London
- VI. Oliver Falls in with The Artful Dodger
- Depictions of The Artful Dodger, 1837 to 1910
- VII. The Thieves' Kitchen. Oliver Is Shown 'How It Is Done'
- VIII. Oliver's Eyes Are Opened
Left: Oliver recovering from fever (1837) by George Cruikshank. Right: Oliver and His Mother's Portrait(1910) by Harry Furniss. [Click on the images to enlarge them.] Whereas Charles Dickens begins the novel with the death of Oliver's mother in the workhouse a considerable distance north of London, Harry Furniss's first lithograph from a pen-and-in...
Left: Oliver Asking for More (1837) by George Cruikshank. Right: Starvation in the Workhouse(1910) by Harry Furniss. [Click on images to enlarge them.]
The evening arrived; the boys took their places. The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbours nud...
It was the critical moment of Oliver's fate. If the inkstand had been wherethe old gentleman thought it was, he would have dipped his pen into it, and signed theindentures, and Oliver would have been straightway hurried off. But, as it chanced to beimmediately under his nose, it followed, as a matter of course, that he looked all overhis desk for i...
Left: Harry Furniss’s Oliver on his long weary journey haunted by visions of those whose cruelty forced him to run away. Middle: James Mahoney's title-page vignette of Oliver at the Milestone prepares the reader from the outset for Oliver's escaping the Sowerberrys (1871). Right: Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s Oliver and Little Dick(1867).
Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated; and once moregained the high-road. It was eight o'clock now. Though he was nearly five miles away fromthe town, he ran, and hid behind the hedges, by turns, till noon: fearing that he mightbe pursued and overtaken. Then he sat down to rest by the side of the milestone, andbegan to think, for...
Left: Harry Furniss’s "Hullo, my covey! What's the row?" said this strange young gentleman to Oliver. "I am very hungry and tired," replied Oliver; the tears standing in his eyes as he spoke. "I have walked a long way. I have been walking these seven days." (1910). Right: James Mahoney's engraving of Oliver's fateful meeting with The Artful Dodger ...
Left: Sol Eytinge, Junior's The Artful Dodger andCharley Bates. Centre: George Cruikshank's original version of Oliver introduced to the respectable Old Gentleman. Right:Clayton J. Clarke's watercolour version of The ArtfulDodgerfor Player's Cigarette Cards (1910).
Left: Cruikshank’s Oliver introduced to the respectable Old Gentleman (May 1837). Right: Furniss’s The Thieves' Kitchen. Oliver is Shown "How It Is Done(1910).
Left: Cruikshank’s Oliver amazed at the Dodger's mode of going to work (July 1837). Right: Furniss’s The Thieves' Kitchen. Oliver's Eyes are opened(1910).
Oct 20, 2016 · But for children of Oliver’s time, it was nonexistent or simply a shade of adulthood. The childlike naivety of Oliver makes him standout. Every character that encounters him in London sees something special in the boy that makes him the spark of youth in the grey factory of adulthood.
Oliver Twist – A loving, innocent orphan child; the son of Edwin Leeford and Agnes Fleming. He is generally quiet and shy rather than aggressive. Oliver’s affectionate nature, along with his weakness and innocence, earn him the pity and love of the good people he meets.
- 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.
Sep 5, 2011 · But the workhouse scenes in Oliver Twist and the picture of Fagin’s team of trainee thieves could stir the dullest imagination. Ordinary people simply hadn’t realised that in prosperous, outwardly respectable Victorian England, such conditions could and did exist.
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The importance of the figure of the child, personified in the character of Oliver, is of immense importance to the novel as a whole and the ideas and values that Dickens is trying to present us...
