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1、By Charles DickensBy Charles Dickens Book Time About the author Charles John Huffam Dickens, (1812.7.2 1870.6.9), was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, He created some of literatures most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. He was Bor
2、n in Portsmouth（朴茨茅斯）, England,Over his career he edited（编辑） a weekly journal（期刊） for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, 5 novellas（中篇小说） and hundreds of short stories and non-ficton（非小说类文学作品 ） articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an intelligent letter writer. Charles was an English writer and
3、social critic. He created some of the worlds most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period(维多利亚时期）. His works are intended to expose（揭露） and criticize all the poverty,injustice,hypocrisy （虚伪） and corruption（腐化） of the 19th- century Eng
4、land, particularly London. Oliver Twist Characters Oliver Twist (奥利弗 退斯特 ） The novels protagonist（主人 公）. He is an orphan born in a workhouse（贫民习艺所）, and Dickens uses his situation to criticize public policy toward the poor in 1830s in England. Though he is treated with cruelty（虐待） and surrounded by
5、coarseness（粗暴） for most of his life, he is a pious(虔 诚的）, innocent（单纯的） child, and his charms（魅力） draw the attention of several wealthy benefactors（恩人）. His true identity is the central mystery of the novel. Fagin （费金） Fagin takes in homeless children and trains them to pick pockets for him. He is a
6、lso a buyer of other peoples stolen goods. He rarely commits crimes himself, preferring to employ others to do such thing. Nancy （南希） A young lady and one of Fagins former child pickpockets. Nancy is also Bill Sikess lover. Her love for Sikes and her sense of moral decency（正派） come into conflict whe
7、n 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 Monkss plots. （阴谋） Mr. Brownlow （布朗罗先生） A well-off, erudite（ 博学的） gentleman who serves as Olivers first benefactor.
8、Throughout the novel, he behaves with compassion（怜悯） and common sense and emerges as a natural leader. Agnes（艾格尼丝） - Olivers mother who died after giving birth to Oliver. The only thing she left was a locket（金属小盒） with her name inscribed. Mr. Sowerberry（苏厄伯尔）- A coffin（棺材） maker. Jack Dawkins（杰克 道金斯
9、）- “Artful Dodger”（逮不着的机灵鬼） is a young accomplished thief who finds Oliver on the road to London and introduces him to Fagin. Monks（蒙克斯）- Olivers elder brother（同父异母） , dont split(分享) his inheritance（遗产）. Mr. Sikes （赛克斯） Another evil character who is a member of Fagins gang. Who kill Nancy. Rose Mayl
10、ie（罗斯 梅里） -The adopted niece(侄女) of Mrs. Maylie who turns out to be Olivers Aunt. She is kind, loving, and a great joy in Olivers life. plot Oliver is born in a workhouse in a small town about 70 miles from London, England in the early part of the 19th century. His mother dies almost immediately aft
11、er his birth. Nobody knows who she was, but the doctor notices that she wasnt wearing a wedding ring (scandalous!).（极不道德的） Oliver is brought up at a “child farm” in the country until he is about eight years old. At this point, the parish officials（教区干事） running the child farm decide its time for him
12、 to start working, and they send him back to the workhouse. But Oliver commits the unpardonable（不可原谅的） offense of asking for more food when he is close to starving, so the parish officials offer five pounds (a pretty good amount of money) to anyone whos willing to take Oliver on as an apprentice. Th
13、e parish officials eventually send Oliver off with a coffin-maker. At the coffin-makers shop, Oliver isnt treated much better than he was at the workhouse or the child farm. The coffin-maker, Mr. Sowerberry, isnt so bad, but his wife, Mrs. Sowerberry, and the other apprentice, Noah Claypole（诺亚 卡拉普莱）
14、, have it in for Oliver from the start. Oliver gets in trouble for knocking Noah down . After being abused some more, Oliver decides to set out for London on foot. When hes almost there, he runs into an odd-looking young man named Jack Dawkins (better known as The Artful Dodger). The Dodger buys him
15、 lunch and offers to introduce him to a “gentleman“ in London who will give him a place to stay. Once in London, it quickly becomes clear to the reader (but not to Oliver) that the Dodger and his friends are an unsavory（令人厌恶的） bunch. The old “gentleman,” Fagin, trains kids to be pickpockets, and the
16、n he sells off what they steal. But Oliver doesnt realize whats up until hes actually out with the Dodger and another one of the boys, named Charley Bates（查理 贝茨）. Oliver sees the pair steal the pocket handkerchief（手帕） out of a nice-looking old mans pocket. When Oliver turns to run away, the nice-looking old man sees him run and yells, “stop, thief!” Oliver is tackled（摔倒） in the street, but by then the nice old man (his name is Mr. Brownlow) has taken a bett
