here i have described two main character who represent feminism.

1. Monali A Jethwa
Roll no : 20
Paper : 6 The Victorian Literature
Submitted By : Dept . Of .English
M.K. Bhavnagar University
Sam : 2 M.A

2. Introduction of the novel :
 Charles Dickens
published his book 1837-
39.
 The story of the orphan
Oliver Twist.
 Who started his life in a
work house,
 He was a member of a
gang of juvenile
pickpockets led by the
elder criminal Fagin

3.  Society and Class
 Poverty
 Criminality
 Fate and Free Will
 Literature and Writing
 Identity

5. Nancy character
She is young prostitute and one of
Fagin’s former child pick pockets.
Nancy is also bill siker’s lover. Her
love for sikes and her sense of moral
decency come into conflict when
siker’s abuses Oliver Despite there
criminal lifestyle, she is among the
novelist character in the novel in
effect she gives her life for Oliver
when Sikes murders her for revealing
Monks’ plots

6. 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.
She establishes a loving
relationship with Oliver
even before it is revealed
that the two are related.

7. Nancy is a dissenting woman that falls
outside the patriarchal borders and her
character subverts domestic ideologies.
Nancy belongs to the working class in
society which was the lowest class in
society. She is 16 years old and works as a
prostitute. She is also Sikes‟ mistress and a
member of Fagin‟s gang. Nancy is,
however, a mixture of good and evil. She is
with people that have a bad influence on
her: she is living in Fagin‟s house and is
Sikes‟s mistress. She decides to do good
when she tells Rose about the plans that
Fagin and Monks have for Oliver and this
shows that she has a good heart.

8. Rose
Rose is clearly a symbol of the Victorian ideals. She is young,
pure and beautiful, with good moral standards. She is described
as gold with its unique qualities. Her angelic qualities seem to
correspond to the Victorian ideals of women. Rose is surrounded
by good people, especially compared to the other women in the
novel. She is surrounded by people that keep her in the “proper
domestic sphere”. Ayres writes: “More accurately, the good
people surround her and contain her within a proper domestic
sphere so that she will never be a social misfit like Nancy and
Agnes”. Rose is in an environment that strengthens her
personality and self-confidence. She is a woman that knows what
she is worth, and that makes her powerful. She is also a woman
that spreads happiness and goodness with her angelic character

9.  “ ‘ I am chained to my old life .
I Loathe and hate it now,
but I can not leave it.
I must have gone too far to turn
back,--and yet I don’t know.’ ( 44.74) “
chapter – 46.

10.  Nancy and rose are two characters that
different from each other.
 They all are social standings and moral
strengths.
 Nancy, a fallen women that work as a
prostitute sacrifices her life so Oliver cloud live.
 Rose, the perfect lady is generally self-
sacrificing , nature and Oliver’s life.

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