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Essay / Character Analysis of Oliver Twist - 898
All around Oliver Twist, Dickens rebukes the Victorian stereotype that the poor are lawbreakers from conception. Oliver Twist is full of mixed, accepted and changed personalities. Oliver joins his final local scene by accepting an alternate persona. Once the riddle of his true personality is discovered, he quickly trades it for an alternative, becoming Brownlow's adopted child. After all the complaining and the overly complex tricks to hide Oliver's personality, it's funny that he's on the verge of abandoning her when he finds out. The latter parts quickly convey the fairness that has been deferred all around the novel. Fagin bites the dust on the scaffold. Sikes hangs himself by accident, which is exactly when the hand of fate or a higher power connects to execute him. Mr. and Mrs. Blunder are being denied the right to hold open positions again. They plunge into want and endure the same deprivations they had previously imposed on the homeless. Brothers never change and life shows them no indulgence. In keeping with Brownlow's characterization of him as terrible from conception, he continues his immobile and cunning methods and bites the dust in an American prison. For him, there is no recovery. Like Noah, he serves as an opposing character whose traits diverge from, and therefore emphasize, those of a stand-in for Oliver's character. He is also malicious, hurt and mean while Oliver is tall, cautious and kind. Oliver and the rest of his companions, obviously, revel in a euphoric and grandiose ending. Everyone lives in the same neighborhood and lives together like a huge optimistic gang. One inconsistency that critics of Oliver Twist have raised is that despite the f...... middle of paper ......: "So you would wallpaper your room - or your husband's, if you were a woman adult and you had a husband - with representations of flowers, right? Why would you? He is taught to completely ignore Fancy. It's Fantasy versus Fact.Louisa and Thomas, two of Mr. Gradgrind's children, pay an after-school visit to the traveling circus run by Mr. Sleary, to meet their father, who is baffled by their trip because he believes the circus to be the bastion of fantasy and vanity. With their father, Louisa and Tom trudge away, discouraged. Mr. Gradgrind has three younger children: Adam Smith (after the famous theorist of laissez-faire politics), Malthus (after the Reverend Thomas Malthus, who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population, highlighting guards against the dangers of future overpopulation), and Jane.Gradgrind apprehends Louisa and Tom, his two eldest children, at the circus.