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雾都孤儿人物形象分析英语作文100字

雾都孤儿人物形象分析英语作文100字

雾都孤儿人物形象分析英语作文100字English:The characters in "Oliver Twist" are vividly portrayed, each with their own unique traits and motivations. Oliver, the protagonist, is depicted as a kind-hearted and innocent orphan who faces numerous trials and tribulations. His resilience and pure heart make him endearing to the reader. Fagin, the cunning and manipulative leader of the pickpocket gang, is portrayed as a complex and morally ambiguous character. He is both a father figure to the boys in his gang and a criminal mastermind. Nancy, a conflicted character, is torn between her loyalty to Fagin and her love for Oliver. Her tragic fate highlights the struggles of those living on the fringes of society. Overall, the characters in "Oliver Twist" reflect the harsh realities of 19th-century London and serve as a powerful commentary on poverty, crime, and social injustice.Translated content:《雾都孤儿》中的人物形象栩栩如生,每个角色都有其独特的特点和动机。

雾都孤儿文学评论-nancy性格分析

雾都孤儿文学评论-nancy性格分析

《Oliver Twist》is one of my favourite novels, the characters and the delicate stories move me deeply.《Oliver Twist》, a realistic novel wrote by English writer Dickens is published in 1838. In this novel, Nancy’s character is complex and ambiguous, and she is just like a unit of angle and evil.On the one hand, she has done numerous crimes under control of Fagin as a young female thief. The first thing which can prove her evil is her effort in the process of recapturing Oliver Twist. Her twice courses of action can prove that the evil inside of her characteristics. On the other hand, she tries all her best to help Oliver out from the thief gang with the awareness of disgrace in herself and evil in her fellow gang, gradually, she wakes up and regrets, stands up and defenses against evil and oppression. Nancy’s good nature mainly embodies in her protection of little Oliver. These words are enough to show her kindness to shock the readers. At last, she overcomes evil by making the sublimating of spirit and break through of nature. It’s just this double nature that well reflects the reality at that time.Nancy in Oliver Twist has also become the most typical image in the literature field. Nancy is not just a signal of simple character but a vivid and unique figure which leaves deepest impression to readers. The significance lies in a scathing indictment of the capitalist society. In despite of the happy ending of Oliver painted a layer of bright color for the novel, it will never cover up critical significance of Na ncy’s double character.。

雾都孤儿南希人物性格分析英语论文资料

雾都孤儿南希人物性格分析英语论文资料

新疆财经大学本科毕业论文题目:雾都孤儿中南希的人物性格分析学生姓名:***学号:**********院部:外国语学院专业:英语年级:2008 级指导教师姓名及职称:王莹()完成日期:2012年3月9日An Analysis of Nancy’s character inOliver TwistA Thesis Submittedto School of Foreign Languages of Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of ArtsByYu QingyaSupervisor:Wang YingMarch9th, 2012AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis.I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Wang Ying who gives me considerable help suggestion, comments and criticism. His encouragement and unwavering support has sustained me through frustration and depression. Without his pushing me ahead, the completion of this thesis would be impossible.I would also want to express my gratitude to Liu Xiaoling, Mr.C , Wang Fengxia, Zhao Weili and other teachers who have taught me during these years for their brilliant and enlightening lectures in literature, translation and linguistics.In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to my parents and my friends who have been assisting, supporting me all of my life.摘要人类的性格是一种矛盾体,有许多色彩丑恶不堪,也有一些极其美丽。

雾都孤儿南希人物性格分析英语论文

雾都孤儿南希人物性格分析英语论文

雾都孤儿南希人物性格分析英语论文本科毕业论文题目:雾都孤儿中南希的人物性格分析学生姓名:学号:院部:外国语学院专业:英语年级:级指导教师姓名及职称:()完成日期:年月日An Analysis of Nancy’s character in OliverTwistA Thesis Submittedto School of Foreign Languages of Xinjiang University of Finance and Economicsin Partial Fulfillment of the Requirementsfor the Degree of Bachelor of ArtsBySupervisor:AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis.I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Wang Ying who gives me considerable help suggestion, comments and criticism. His encouragement and unwavering support has sustained me through frustration and depression. Without his pushing me ahead, the completion of this thesis would be impossible.I would also want to express my gratitude to Liu Xiaoling, Mr.C , Wang Fengxia, Zhao Weili and other teachers who have taught me during these years for their brilliant and enlightening lectures in literature, translation and linguistics.In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to my parents and my friends who have been assisting, supporting me all of my life.摘要人类的性格是一种矛盾体,有许多色彩丑恶不堪,也有一些极其美丽。

An Analysis of the Characters of Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿人物性格分析

An Analysis of the Characters of Oliver Twist  雾都孤儿人物性格分析

An Analysis of the Characters of Oliver Twist雾都孤儿人物性格分析Thesis statement: In this composition, I will share my views on the analyzing for Oliver Twist and its relationship with the characters in the work.AbstractCharles Dickens is one of the most prominent realists in English literature. Oliver Twist is One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories. The novel describes the tragic life of the poor people and reveals the darkness of workhouse in England. Oliver is one of the most successful characters in the novel. He is pure, kind, brave, even in the dark hostile environment; he still remained the perfect character. Dickens has a contradictory opinion about human nature. That is some people’s nature is born with good virtue and will not chan ge with the influence of environment such as Oliver while some people’s character is easily influenced by the environment, such as Nancy.This paper consist of five parts : firstly ,brife introduction to the works , the second part mainly ananlysis the Characters of Oliver Twist. the third part from the persperctive of social view ananlysis the works characters. the fourth part :the author , associated with morden society ,expose people indifferent and cold relationship . Finally, there will be a conclusion .Key words: purity; kindness; brave; nature.摘要查尔斯. 狄更斯是英国文学史上最著名的现实主义作家之一。

一朵开在冬天的花——剖析《雾都孤儿》中南希的双重性格毕业论文

一朵开在冬天的花——剖析《雾都孤儿》中南希的双重性格毕业论文

学科分类号0502本科学生毕业论文(设计)题目(中文):一朵开在冬天的花—剖析《雾都孤儿》中南希的双重性格(英文):A Flower Blossoming in Winter —Expoundingthe Double Character of Nancy in Oliver Twist毕业设计(论文)原创性声明和使用授权说明原创性声明本人郑重承诺:所呈交的毕业设计(论文),是我个人在指导教师的指导下进行的研究工作及取得的成果。

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雾都孤儿 南希 宿命

雾都孤儿 南希 宿命

矛盾性导致她的宿命--《雾都孤儿》中南茜性格解析摘要:本论文主要分析查尔斯.狄更斯的作品«雾都孤儿»中南茜的矛盾性格以及导致她宿命的原因。

通过南茜的悲惨命运,真实地表现当时伦敦贫民窟的惨痛生活。

通过南茜的性格成因解析,我们可以透视当时整个英国社会制度的腐朽性和阴暗面,充满着对穷人的欺压和不公。

而正是这种腐败的资本主义社会制度成为了主人公南茜最终命运的刽子手和掘墓者。

关键词:《雾都孤儿》南茜矛盾性性格Contradictions Leading To Her Fatality--Analysis of Nancy's Characteristics in Oliver TwistAbstract: This paper focuses on the analysis of Nancy----a character full of contradictions in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and on the causes that lead to her fatality. It truly shows us the miserable life of the LUNDON slum at that time by Nancy's fatality. Through analyzing the forming cause of Nancy's fatality, we could perspective the feudualideology of the whole British social political system, It is full of unfairness and oppress to the poor; It is this kind of rotted capitalism system that killed Nancy finally.Key words: Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Nancy Contradictory CharacterⅠ引言众所周知,查尔斯.狄更斯是十九世纪英国著名的小说家,他在英国文学史上享有非凡的、具有影响力的胜誉。

毕业论文- 雾都孤儿 中南希的双重性格研究

毕业论文- 雾都孤儿 中南希的双重性格研究

毕业论文- 雾都孤儿中南希的双重性格研究毕业论文-[雾都孤儿]中南希的双重性格研究本科学生毕业论文题目(中文)—剖析《雾都孤儿》中南希的双重性格(英文):A Flower Blossoming in Winter —ExpoundingContents摘要 (Ⅰ)Abstract .................................................................... (Ⅱ)Introduction ................................................................ (1)1. Nancy’s Double Character Acts in Oliver Twist (4)1.1 The Attitude to Oliver in Different Time (4)1.2 The At titude to Fagin in Different Time............................. . (6)1.3 The Attitude to Sikes in Different Time ................... ...... .. (9)2. The Reason of Nancy’s Double Character.......... ........... (13)2.1Social Environment‘s Influence to Nancy‘s Double Character (13)2.2 Human Nature‘s Influence to Her Double Character..... . (17)3. Nancy’s Incorruptibility of Goodness in Double Character (20)3.1 Nancy‘s Resistance to Crime .......... .......................... .. (20)3.2 Nancy‘s Love to Oliver........................................................ .. (22)Conclusion ................................................................... . (25)Notes ...................................... .. (27)Bibliography ................................................................. . (28)Acknowledgements《雾都孤儿》是查尔斯·狄更斯第一部重要的反映社会问题的小说。

Dickens 雾都孤儿 人物赏析

Dickens 雾都孤儿 人物赏析
Ⅰ. As a pickpocket Ⅱ. For her master Fagin Ⅲ. For her lover Bill Sikes Ⅳ. Recapture of Oliver twist
Nancy’s Angel Part
Be sympathetic towards Oliver Remind of her own long-lost innocence Recognize evil in herself
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3.Nancy’s paradoxical value and philosophy
One hand, the philosophy makes her do the good things; on the other hand, the value makes her do the bad things.
Notable works: 《Great expectations》 《David Copperfield》 《Oliver Twist》
About the plot of Oliver Twist
Work at the coffin-maker’s shop
In London, be trained as a pickpocket Adopted by a nice old man
Recaptured by the“pickpocket group” Bad guys get the punishment and Oliver Twist release from the suffering.
Is Nancy a demon or an angel?
Nancy’s Demon Part

试析《雾都孤儿》二稿

试析《雾都孤儿》二稿

渤海大学本科毕业论文试析《雾都孤儿》中南希形象及其悲剧成因An analysis of the image of Nancy in Oliver Twist and its sadPlay Genesis学院(系):文学院中文系专业:汉语言文学(师范)学号:09010147学生姓名:侯金凤入学年度:2009年指导教师:倪红雨完成日期:2013年5月9日摘要长篇小说《雾都孤儿》是19世纪英国批判现实主义代表作家狄更斯最杰出的作品之一。

在作品中,狄更斯虽然以奥立弗·退斯特为主人公,但是许多学者都认为,《雾都孤儿》中刻画得最成功的人物应该是南希这一形象。

南希是一个有着悲惨身世的孤儿,从小流落街头。

由于生活所迫,她被迫成为盗贼团伙的一员,但她心地善良,同情奥利弗的不幸遭遇,舍生忘死,帮助奥利弗从囹圄中逃脱出来,成为一个让人肃然起敬的侠女。

南希的孤儿身世为她的不幸预设了前提条件;再加她生活在19世纪英国资本主义急遽发展阶段,物质利益观念深入人心之时,人们在财富与物质面前变得利欲熏心失去良知,金钱成为人们心中衡量一切的唯一标准,政府无视人民的苦难,漠视人民的悲苦,所以,走投无路的南希只能流露街头,深陷贼窝,这些构成了她悲剧命运外部原因;再加上她性格懦弱,缺乏自信、勇气、和自控力等主观原因,使这一人物的命运注定是悲剧性的。

关键词:《雾都孤儿》;南希;形象;悲剧原因An Analysis of the Image of Nancy in Oliver Twist and its SadPlay GenesisAbstractNovel Oliver Twist is the 19th century United Kingdom representative of critical realism writers Charles Dickens, one of the most outstanding works.In his works, Dickens ' Oliver·Sturt as the hero back, but many scholars agree that, of the Oliver of the most successful characters should be portrayed in this image from Nancy. Nancy is a tragic story of an orphan, grew up on the streets. Forced by living, she was forced to become a member of the rogues gang, but her heart and sympathy for Oliver's misfortune isn't helping Oliver escape from the prison, the man who became a respectable woman. Nancy of orphans story for she of unfortunately preset has premise conditions; again plus she life in 19th century United Kingdom capitalism sharply development stage, material interests concept people of Shi, people in wealth and material before became greed lost conscience, money became people heart measure all of only standard, Government ignored people of suffering, ignored people of misery, so, desperate of South Greek only revealed Street, mired in den, these constitute has she tragedy fate external causes; again plus she character cowardly, lack confident, and courage , And self-control, subjective reasons, making the character's fate is tragic.Key Words:of the oliver; Nancy; image; Tragedy reasons目录摘要 (I)Abstract (II)引言 (1)一、可怜、善良、舍身忘死的侠女 (2)二、悲剧命运的成因 (5)(一)外部原因——出生背景及社会背景 (5)(二)内部原因——缺乏自信、勇气、理智、感情自控力 (6)结论 (9)注释 (10)参考文献 (11)引言长篇小说《雾都孤儿》是19世纪英国批判现实主义代表作家狄更斯最杰出的作品之一。

英语毕业论文—从对《雾都孤儿》中奥利弗、南希和露西的性格分析审视良知的光辉

英语毕业论文—从对《雾都孤儿》中奥利弗、南希和露西的性格分析审视良知的光辉

西南交通大学本科毕业设计(论文)从对《雾都孤儿》中奥利弗、南希和露西的性格分析审视良知的光辉年级: 级学号:**:***专业:英语****:***年月Glory of Conscience—— a Character Analysis of Oliver, Nancy and Rose inOliver TwistStudent: Zhang SainanSupervisor: He FengwenA Thesis Submitted to the School of Foreign Languagesin Partial Fulfillment of Requirementsfor Degree of Bachelor of ArtsSchool of Foreign LanguagesSouthwest Jiaotong UniversityJune 2008院 系 外国语学院英语系 专 业 英语年 级 08级 姓 名 张赛男题 目从对《雾都孤儿》中奥利弗,南希和露西的性格分析审视良知的光辉 Glory of Conscience—— a character Analysis of Oliver, Nancy and Rose inOliver Twist指导教师 何凤文评 语指导教师 (签章)评 阅 人评 语评 阅 人(签章)成 绩答辩委员会主任 (签章)年 月 日毕业设计(论文)任务书班 级08级 学生姓名张赛男 学 号 20084493 发题日期:2012年 3月 5日 完成日期: 6 月 13 日题 目从对《雾都孤儿》中奥利弗、南希和露西的性格分析审视良知的光辉Glory of Conscience—— a character Analysis of Oliver, Nancy and Rosein Oliver Twist1、本论文的目的、意义本文从《雾都孤儿》中对奥利弗,南希和露西的性格分析入手,对良知做了进一步的分析和阐释,从而探索良知的深意,找到人性的闪光点,引发人们对良知的思索,发扬良知的荣光,呼唤良知的归来。

An Analysis of Nancy’s Character in Oliver Twist雾都孤儿中南希双重性格的分析三稿电子版

An Analysis of Nancy’s Character in Oliver Twist雾都孤儿中南希双重性格的分析三稿电子版

Foreign Language DepartmentGraduation ThesisAn Analysis of Nancy’s Character in OliverTwistName: Ma YanClass: 09-1Major: EnglishAdvisor: Chen TanglongTime: May 15, 2013毕业论文(设计)任务书系别外语系专业英语班级09级英本1学生姓名马艳2012年11月8日毕业论文(设计)任务书毕业论文(设计)评语及成绩摘要查尔斯·狄更斯是19世纪批判现实主义小说家,是英国批判现实主义作家中的杰出代表。

《雾都孤儿》中虽然奥利弗是主角,但刻画得最具特色的人物却是南希,一个四岁后就被迫成为小偷的女性,她的角色有较强的现实意义。

作者通过用大量的语言、对话来塑造这一人物的矛盾性格,真实地表现了资本主义社会穷苦儿童的悲惨生活。

本文首先从作者的理想化的现实主义入手,着重从南希的一系列行为分析她的双重性格,以及形成这个性格的原因。

通过对南希的双重性格的分析来呼唤人类的善良本性及憧憬美好的未来,南希的死亡不仅是对黑暗资本主义社会的批判,对现代社会的发展和建设也有巨大的现实意义。

关键词:《雾都孤儿》;南希;双重性格;理想化的现实主义AbstractCharles Dickens was a critical realist in the 19th century; he was the most outstanding representative of English critical realism writers. Although Oliver is the leading role of Oliver Twist, but Nancy who was being a thief after four is depicted as the most distinctive character, Nancy’s role has a strong practical significance. The author uses a large number of words and dialogues to shape the contradictive personality of Nancy and truthfully reflects the poor children’s miserable life in the capitalist society. This thesis dissect the author’s idealized realism, and then emphatically dissect Nancy’s double character s by series of behaviors from analysis and the reason of becoming such a character. It looks forward to the human kind and bright future by analyzing Nancy’s double character s. And Nancy’s death not only criticizes the dark capitalist of society but also has a great practical significance for the developing and the construction of the modern society.Key words:Oliver Twist; Nancy; double characters; idealized realismContents摘要 (i)Abstract ....................................................................................................................................... i i Contents ..................................................................................................................................... i ii1 Introduction (1)2 Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist (3)2.1 Charles Dickens (3)2.2 Oliver Twist (4)3An A nalysis of Nancy’s Character s (6)3.1 Charles Dickens’s Idealized Realism (6)3.2 Nancy’s Double Characters (7)3.2.1 Nancy’s Demon Part (8)3.2.2 Nancy’s Angel Part (9)4 The Reasons for Nancy’s Double Character s (12)4.1 Social Background at That Time (12)4.2 The Double Characters of Charles Dickens (13)4.3 Nancy’s Paradoxical Value and Philosophy (14)5 Conclusion (16)References (18)Acknowledgements (19)1 IntroductionCharles Dickens was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and the creator of some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters. During his lifetime Dickens’s works enjoyed unprecedented popularity and fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was fully recognized by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to enjoy an enduring popularity among the general reading public. Due to his experience, he exposes the social injustice and the voices of the upper class and put his heart into describing the miser of the ordinary people. Oliver Twist, reflecting the tragic fact of the life in 19th century, marks the very beginning of Dickens’s literary life. This novel is a powerful exposure of the bourgeois socie ty. It shows the extreme brutality and corruption of oppose and reveals the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London.Oliver Twist, Dickens’s second novel, shocked re aders with its images of poverty and crime. It destroyed middle class polemics about criminals, making any pretense to ignorance about what poverty entailed impossible.A major concern of Oliver Twist is the question of whether a bad environment can irrevo cably poison someone’s character and soul. As the novel progresses, the character who best illustrates the contradictory issues brought up by that question is Nancy. As a child of the streets, Nancy has been a thief and drinks to excess. The narrator’s reference to her “free and agreeable . . . manners” indicates that she is a prostitute. She is immersed in the vices condemned by her society, but she also commits perhaps the noblest act in the novel when she sacrifices her own life in order to protect Olive r. Nancy’s moral complexity is unique among the major characters in Oliver Twist. The novel is full of characters who are all good and can barely comprehend evil, such as Oliver, Rose, andBrownlow; and characters who are all evil and can barely comprehend good, such as Fagin, Sikes, and Monks. Only Nancy comprehends and is capable of both good and evil. Her ultimate choice to do good at a great personal cost is a strong argument in favor of the incorruptibility of basic goodness, no matter how many environmental obstacles it may face. In this novel, Nancy is a typical character who had the same suffering with Oliver Twist but the different ending from him.This paper consists of five chapters. Firstly, brief introduction to the works, the second part mainly introduce Charles Dickens and Oliver Twist. The third part from Charles Dickens’s idealized realism and Nancy’s double characters to analyses Nancy’s Characters. The fourth part is about the reasons for. Finally, there will be a conclusion.Due to the de scription of Nancy’s double characters in the novel, the image of the dark society becomes more vivid and the theme of the novel is more profound and the book wins more readers.2 Charles Dickens and Oliver TwistCharles Dickens was a prominent critical realist in the mid 19th century. He has a world of sympathy for the misseries and a strong feeling for the poor laboring masses. This chapter shows the life of Charles Dickens and his work. He cried flout loud against social injustice but he had never thought of overthrowing the existing social order. Oliver Twist is one of his masterpieces which marked the beginning of his literary life. This novel was famous for exposing the dark sides of people lived out of that time.2.1 Charles DickensCharles Dickens, one of the most famous writers, is the founder of critical realistic literature in the 19th century. Most of his works all belong to the literary masterpieces at home and abroad, which have the far-reaching influence upon the literature. The age he lived was the rising period of English capitalism. The transformation and the development of the society provided rich materials for his writing. Dickens wrote many works, connecting his miserable experiences with the capitalist society. In addition, a part of Dickens’ success was due to the influence of other critical writers. In that period, Dickens was “the classics known by everyone” and “the symbol of the mythic nationalism”, which was described by the modern literature critic, Phil Collins. This thesis will introduce him from three aspects: what is critical realism, Dickens’ life and his writing styles.Charles Dickens was Born on 7 February 1812 in Portsea, England and died on 9 June 1870 (aged 58). He spent most of his childhood in Kent where he based many of his novels. When he was 9 he went to school, but had to leave when he was 12 because of his families’ financial difficulties (his dad was put in prison for being in debt).After that, Charles was left to look after himself and with the help of a relative, he found a job pasting labels on bottles in a blacking warehouse. At 15, Charles began working as a lawyer’s office boy, studyingshorthand and reading in his spare time. His first published sketch appeared in the Monthly Magazine in 1833 when he was 21. Then a series of his stories and sketches followed in that magazine.As an English novelist, Charles Dickens is generally considered as the greatest of the Victorian period, and the greatest representative of English critical realism. He enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters. In the history of English literatures, only Charles Dickens can have the same honor with William Shakespeare.2.2 Oliver TwistOliver Twist, also known as The Parish Boy’s Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens and was published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful activities. Though Nancy is a minor character in Dickens’ famous novel Oliver Twist, she is the most typical character. Unlike other characters throughout Oliver Twist, she is not entirely good or entirely bad. She has conflicts between her inner conscience and her devotion to Sikes. In fact, Nancy was a prostitute. She had been trained by Fagin to be a thief since half of Oliver’s age. That means she was only about 5 years old then. And now, 12 years later, being 17 years old, she became a prostitute. All her life, what she had experienced was nothing but loneliness, unhappiness, fear, guiltiness and humiliation. She laughed hysterically partly because she is hopeless towards her life and felt her life meaningless. Sh e laughed also because she couldn’t do anything else to help Oliver, who would very likely end his life as a thief and to a certain degree; she was responsible for poor Oliver’s sad fate.Oliver Twist is famous for Dickens’ unromantic portrayal of criminal s and their sordid lives. The book exposed the cruel treatment of many a waif-child in London, which increased international concern in what is sometimes known as “The Great London Waif Crisis”: the large number of orphans in London in the Dickens era. The book’s subtitle, The Parish Boy’s Progress, alludes to Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and also to a pair of popular 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress and A Harlot’s Progress.An early example of the social novel, the bo ok calls the public’s attention to various contemporary evils, including the Poor Law, child labor, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of ‘street children’. Dickens mocks the hypocrisies of his time by surrounding the novel’s seriou s themes with sarcasm and dark humor. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of hardships as a child laborer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens’s own early youth as a c hild laborer contributed to the story’s development.3An A nalysis of Nancy’s Character sThis paper will make an analysis of Nancy’s characters. Stated in Charles Dickens’s idealized realism, it is the essential reason of Nancy’s characters. Then it analyses Nancy’s own characters from two parts, demon and angel. On the one hand, she has done numerous crimes under control of Fagin as a young female thief. On the other hand, she tries all her best to help Oliver out from the thief gang with the awareness of disgrace in herself and evil in her fellow gang, gradually, she wakes up and regrets, stands up and defenses against evil and oppression.3.1 Charles Dickens’s Idealized RealismDuring the time of creating Oliver twist, Dickens who was only 25 years old decided to face the life and reflect the miserable life of London slum at that time truthfully. He saw the tragic experience of the poor and tried to use his own words to depict the disadvantages of society. But because of the special temperament and personality of Dickens, there were many discrepancies between Dickens’s original intention and what people thought.It is hard not to sympathy with Oliver’s miserable life. He grew up in workhouse and be taken care by poor law, and cannot feed or warm himself .he should work for 10 hours above, and if he gets any slack at his work, he will be punished. And he was a little devil because he begging for some more porridge. He contacted with hypocrite and reprobates and had never received any good education, but he did have a gentle nature, good character and kindness of thought. Not only that but he has a beautiful mind and talk like a gentleman, though he lives in the bottom of society, don’t even know what is so called stealing. But he is still kind to the people who bully him for no reason. The most outrageous behavior of Oliver is fighting with Noah Clay pole when Noah insulted his mother. Before he was sent to steal, he get along well with Feign and his apprentices, no matter what kind of tricks they play on him, he alwaysoptimistic about it.By contrast all of this, we can see there is a greatly shortcoming of Dickens’s ideology. If Oliver was born in a middle class family with his parents who love him, maidservants who take care of him, family teacher who teach him knowledge and manners. It won’t be surprise that he has such a good personality. But it is very strange that Oliver lives in a bad environment but has so many virtues. So, the character of Oliver is far from real. Dickens arranged a lot of coincidence in the fiction. The person who has been stolen by the thieves and Oliver at the first time is his father’s best friend, Mr. Brownlow. And then he was saved by Mr. Brownlow. The thieves found his trail when Mr. Brownlow dumped Oliver’s shabby clothes, and then he was caught back to the den. Oliver’s second pilferage was forced by Bill Sikes,and the person who was stolen by is Oliver’s aunt, Rose Maylie. And then he met the Maylie’s family, and got a new life.Stand to the reason that all this coincidences don’t make sense. It is more like a fairy ta le which give children a sweet hope ending with happy ever after. And Dickens makes Nancy just like a fairy helps Oliver out of all this suffering. This character comes through this entire story and makes every circumstance make sense. Without Nancy this fairy tale cannot be fulfilled. And Dickens is the man makes Nancy as a fairy.3.2 Nancy’s Double Character sThere are many different opinions on whether people are born well or bad. Chinese Confucianism says that all human are born with good nature. While the Bible says that people all sinned to Adam.In this novel, Nancy’s character is complex and ambiguous, and she is just like a unit of angle and demon. On the one hand, she has done numerous crimes under control of Fagin as a young female thief. On the other hand, she tries all her best to help Oliver out from the thief gang with the awareness of disgrace in herself and evil in her fellow gang. Gradually, she wakes up and regrets, stands up and defenses against evil and oppression. At last, sheovercomes evil by making the sublimating of spirit and breakthrough of nature. It’s just this double nature, demon nature and angel part, that well reflects the reality at that time.3.2.1 Nancy’s Demon PartThe demon part of Nancy is mainly manifested in what she has done for the sake of her master Fagin and her lover Bill Sikes as well as what she had done as a pickpocket when she was as young as Oliver. Simply put, in order to help Fagin and Bill Sikes improper interest, Nancy cheats and hurts the innocent Oliver again and again. The following two parts will show us the demon Nancy.The first thing which can prove her evil is her effort in the process of recapturing Oliver twist. When Oliver Twist innocently goes out to “make handkerchiefs”, Oliver realizes too late that their real mission is to pick pockets. Dodger and Charley steal the handkerchief of Mr. Brownlow, and promptly flee. To the judge’s disappointment, a bookstall holder who saw Dodger commit the crime and cleared Oliver who now is sickness and faints in the courtroom. Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver home. Sikes and Fagin worried that Oliver might inform them. So she decides that Oliver must be brought back to his hideout. They wanted to ask Betsy to go out in search of direction in which Oliver has gone, but Betsy was unexpectedly tactful and cleverly refused it. Then they convinced Nancy that find Oliver and take him back, although she was reluctant to do this, she actually did a good job. She dressed like a gentlewoman so that she could easily get Oliver’s information where Oliver is from the policeman. She told Sikes and Fagin that Oliver wasn’t accused of thieving and removed to a gentleman’s house. Nancy knew that this means to bring Oliver back to the hell again, she winded up attending it, presumably after physically threatened by Fagin and Sikes as she has the mind of listening to the fate and she didn’t figure out of her expectation by her innocence. Nancy regretted deeply for her wrongdoings, but we can’t deny that it is her that finds out where Oliver lives and it is her that draws Oliver back to the Fagin’s gang, the social evil. Her twice courses of action can prove that the evil inside of her characteristics.In the later part of the novel, when Nancy decides to help Oliver get out of Monks’ trap, she also shows the protection of their gang by saying that she will not betray her companions. There is no doubt that it will cause negative social influence. More and more innocent children like Oliver will be hurt if theft gang doesn’t get punishment. She encourages bad atmosphere, and she just makes the world darker. She can be called as a demon.3.2.2 Nancy’s Angel PartNancy’s angle part mainly embodies in her protection of little Oliver. After Oliver was caught and taken to the dirty room again, he felt dismayed. He fled and attempted to call for police assistance, but he was ruthlessly dragged back by the Dodger, Charley and Fagin. Nancy, however, was sympathetic towards Oliver and saves him from beatings by Fagin and Sikes.The Jew inflicted a sm art blow on Oliver’s shoulders with the club. It was rising for a second. When the girl rushed forward and wrested it from his hands. She flung it into the fire, with a force that brought some of the glowing coals whirling out into the room. “I won’t stand by and see it done, Fagin,” cried the girl, “you have got the boy, and what more would you have?”She seems to be reminded of her own long-lost innocence when she looks at Oliver. When Sikes shows his dog to Oliver, she jumps to his defense trying to help Oliver for the first time, and yells at Fagin: “I thieved for you when I was a child not half as old as this (pointing to Oliver). I have been in the same trade, and in the same service, for twelve years since; don’t you know it? ”Beyond doubt, it is her that finds out where Oliver is and catches him back. But when Fagin inflicts a smart blow on Oliver’s shoulders with the club, she is shocked. She stands up for protection of Oliver and cries out to Fagin and Sikes. It’s the first time she has the courag e to stand up against her evil leaders and fellow gangs. These words are enough to show her kindness to shock the readers.Nancy’s later behavior is even more marvelous than we can imagine. As stated in last section, Nancy has recognized evil in herself and her fellow gang. So she tries her best to help Oliver out from the hurt and corruption of the gang. The deserted child Oliver doesn’t know who his parents are, not to speak of his old brother. But Monks knows Oliver is his brother. It is Miss Rose and M r. Brownlow’s victory of justice over Monks, Fagin and Sikes with the help of Nancy that reveals mystery of Oliver’s birth. Monks comes to London not for the reunion of brothers but for his father’s heritage. According to his father’s will, if Oliver indulges in any crime in society, he would be denied the right of heritage. After investigation in secret, Monks finds Oliver is in the hands of Fagin. And he makes a deal with Fagin-if Fagin can hold Oliver tightly and train him to be a thief so that Oliver would be put into prison, he would get a large sum of money without dividing any part to his younger brother. In order to get his father’s heritage, Monks has destroyed all the subjects which can prove Oliver is his brother. All the things seem to be processed and be planned very well. But Nancy hears their conspiracy in a dark corner and is exceedingly shocked again. Before she is determined to tell Miss Rose the entire secret, while she experiences severe struggle in her heart:From the quotations above, it is obvious that she suffers the struggle of whether she should tell Miss Rose of Monks and Fagin’s conspiracy. But several days later, her goodness in her nature finally overcome her evil in heart. So she is determined to tell Miss Rose the entire secret at London Bridge. She shows her fearless self-sacrifice to prevent Oliver from being kidnapped a second time. As a member of Fagin’s gang, she really has done a lot of thefts, but when Oliver is in danger, she immediately gives a hand to save this child’s fate. It is her who reveals mystery of Oliver’s birth and changes his fate. She cares for Oliver so profoundly that it results her death. She falls on blood and draws from her bosom a white handkerchief which Rose gives her.Her image is so mixed and complicated for her special characteristics. In nature, shefinishes the baptism of her soul from evil to angle this time. With remorse and awareness, she finishes the great turning from evil to good and makes the remarkable breakthrough in her mind and action.4 The Reasons for Nancy’s Double CharactersOliver twist successfully created the image of the character Nancy. She reflects the complexity and authenticity of human. Readers can not only learn about her good quality but also her bad behaviors. Under the influence of strict hierarchy, Nancy eventually cannot escape the bad luck to choose her own fate. And her firm love for Sikes eventually leads to her demise. We know that Nancy has two different characters. But what kind of reason can make her act like that and why Dickens shapes her like that. The following three parts gives the reasons.4.1 Social Background at That TimeThe creations of Dickens are always with the trend of the times synchronization. In the middle of the 19 century is the early time of Queen Victoria, the entire British society faced with the rapid economic development and serious social problems, experienced earth-shaking changes of the industrial revolution.On the one hand, Britain, once known as “world factory”, became the first economic power of the world by accumulating great wealth from overseas market and various resources of the colony. Mammonism and utilitarianism were widely accepted, and utility almost became the only inspection standard of everything. Then the deprecation of cultural value and interpersonal indifference comes. In the society of worshiping money, people want to make money, aspiring material enjoyment, and completely ignore love. But the poor and unfortunate of working class is under the cover of this prosperity and wealth, to make a living, even the women and children will be employed to the dirty factory, it can say that the contradiction became sharpened for social class.And on the other hand, Victoria period is a democracy, universal education, fraternity infancy. Therefore, there also having love quality people. As a representative of the periodnovelist, D ickens’s writing technique also includes two aspects, one is to use realism brushwork to reveal the hypocrisy, greed, brutality of social upper and bourgeois.Dickens was filled with hot blood and deep sympathy to lower society, especially women, children and the old man’s miserable situation, and describe the struggle of people who start to awake with serious and careful attitude. The other, he still eulogizes human nature of the true, the good and the beautiful, looks forward to more reasonable society and a better life with idealism and romantic.4.2 The Double Characters of Charles DickensAfter his indebted father went to jail, eight-year-old Dickens followed his mother to go to prison to make shoelace with his father. He became a child laborer in the factory of shoeshine at the age of eleven. His whole childhood was full of insecurity and lack of partisans made him feel lonelier. Miserable reality made his heart full of fear and having no alternative. So Dickens formed a double character of brightness and darkness.He loved the nice things in life such as game and amateurish drama, full of unlimited delusion to future, and looking forward irra diant illumination of human nature but he couldn’t open his mind to anyone.T he character Nancy absolutely wasn’t the product that the writer imagined. And the writer didn’t create groundless rumors. He gave the rein to “imagination of being grateful as a personal favor’’, combining the character closely with individual fate.Dickens was faithful to the teaching, and to the general theological framework, of Christianity as a moral basis for his thought, his action, above all, for his writing, nevertheless.A critical awareness that there was something deeply wrong with the society in which he lived sharpened the nature of his fiction and gave it its distinct political edge.As a great writer of realism, he is not only the witness of British society in the 19th century but was also the people of experiencing the bitterness like Nancy, Oliver and other thousands of poor children. Slender income could hardly make a living under the exploitingof capitalistic factory owner. Dickens who became famous could not bear to walk past the door of the factory where he labored during his childhood again so as not to evoke painful memories unbearable to recall. In a word, unmerciful capital exploitation caused serious result, which had become decadent situation beyond retrieval of British ruler. Nancy was only the embodiment of thousands of unemployed man and homeless people above.4.3 Nancy’s Paradoxical Value and PhilosophyWhat struggle in Nancy’s mind are the philosophy and value. One hand, the philosophy makes her do the good things; on the other hand, the value makes her do the bad things.In the view of life, Nancy is eager to be engaged in the legitimate industry, but she doesn’t want others know her number, and do not willing to do illegal business deals and punished by the law, and conscience condemnation. But because she lead a vagrancy traveling life, she lost the best opportunity of learning life skills, during the formation period of outlook on life, world outlook, the values, she only can do stealing and illegal business deals for a living. It is fine to say she is getting something for nothing or forced to support herself, in fact, no one is able to understand her inner torment.In values, she has the correct judgment ability, but this kind of values can’t g uide her practical action. One is the call from deep conscience, sympathy to Oliver fate; the other is to get away with crime life chain, feelings of guilt to betray the companion. She succumbed to the threat of Fagin, helped him to catch the Oliver back but with full of regret. When Fagin exalted wooden stick to hit Oliver, when Sikes wanted to kill Oliver when he was going to escape, Nancy shocked, she grabbed the big stick, desperately prevented from the power of Sikes. Later, she risked her life in danger of telling Mrs. Maylie and Mr. Brownlow the truth secretly, finally Oliver saved out. In Nancy’s inner awakening process, even if “shame”, “inferiority complex” once let her halt, trembling restlessness, linger for a long time in rose’s house door, but in the end she still said: “but my heart is still not completely corrosion off by。

毕业论文设计《英语专业毕业论文对《雾都孤儿》中南希的性格分析

毕业论文设计《英语专业毕业论文对《雾都孤儿》中南希的性格分析

对《雾都孤儿》中南希的性格分析摘要《雾都孤儿》是狄更斯的早期作品,虽然作品以奥利弗为主角,但刻画最成功的人物却是南希,她仅仅是小说中的一个次要角色,但却是小说中一个极为典型的人物,她不像小说中其他人物一样表现出或者好或者坏的某一面。

她徘徊于善恶之间,是整个故事圆满结局的关键人物。

南希这一人物有着无比丰富,复杂的内心世界,具有典型的双重性格。

本文将详细地分析她的复杂性格,得出了南希性格形成是当时时代的产物的结论:资本主义制度剥削人的产物。

她的复杂性格和内心争斗是由残酷的资本主义制度造成的,在当时的社会背景下,她的悲剧结局无法避免。

她在内心良知和爱塞克斯之间斗争。

正因为这样,这个人物才更贴近于生活,这个人物的人性之复杂才值得我们来探究。

本文将重点探讨其性格特点及成因。

关键词:南希善良复杂性格Analysis on Nancy's Character in Oliver TwistABSTRACTOliver Twist was Dickens 'early work. Though Oliver is regarded as the protagonist, the character Nancy is the most successful character. Though Nancy is a minor character in the novel, she is the most typical character. Unlike other characters throughouOt liver Twist, she is not entirely good or entirely bad. She is between good and evil, but it is hard to put a simple label on her. Nancy has an incomparably plentiful and contradictory inner world. She has typical double character. This paper will analyze her complex character in detail, and comes to the conclusion that the forming of her character is the product of that age: the product of capitalist system 's exploiting people. Her complex personality and inner conflicts are caused by the cruel capitalism. Under the dark social background, her tragic ending is inevitable. She has conflicts between her inner conscience and her devotion to Sikes. As a result of this, this character is more accessible to common daily life than any other characters in this novel. Thus her complex nature is worth us to explain. This paper will mainly discuss her feature of character and the causes. Keywords: Nancy kindness complex characterCONTENTS摘要 (I)ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................... I.I.1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................... 错误!未定义书签。

The Analysis on Nancy's Character雾都孤儿南希性格分析

The Analysis on Nancy's Character雾都孤儿南希性格分析

Analysis on Nancy’s Contradictary Character(英教2班 030112217 吴珏)Introduction of Charles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens is regarded as one of the greatest representatives of English critical realism. Nancy is likely to be considered as the most successful character that Dickens describes in Oliver Twist. Although Oliver is the hero of the story, Nancy, this character, has a great significance of reality.Introduction on Nancy’s Miserable FateNancy is a complex young woman. She grows up in a gang of thieves but is treats badly, and nobody knows her lot. Nancy appeared in the latter part of the story.Nancy’s Contradictory characterIn this novel, Nancy’s character is complex and ambiguous. Sometimes she is so kind, and sometimes she perfoms as a bad woman. This complex nature well reflects the reality at that time.The scene that Nancy met Miss Maylie shows her internal dignity. Facing the criticism from other women, Nancy turns a deaf ear. But when meeting such a cultivated woman, who has a warm family, Nancyadmires so much and feel ashamed at the same time. She doen’t go forward to meet Miss Maylie at first, because she cares about her humble origins. When Miss Maylie wants to offer her a safe house to keep away from the gang, she refused. Nancy can risk her life to send a message to Miss Maylie, but she thinks she cannot leave Sikes and betray him, which shows her complex and contradictary character.Nancy’s good nature mainly appears in her brave behaviors to protect the little Oliver. In chapter 16, when Oliver is caught by Bill and nearly bite by the dog, Nancy come forward and shows her good nature. “Keep back the dog, Bill!”cried Nancy, springing before the door, and closing it, as the Jew and his two pupils darted out in pursuit; “keep back the dog; he’ll tear the boy to pieces,” struggling violently with the man: “the child shan’t be torn down by the dog, unless you kill me first.”screamed the girl.①This really shocks the readers, because she is a member of Fagin’s gang, she did many bad things with them, but, unexpectedly, she chooses to risk her life to save a child at that time.Although Nancy has good nature, because she was brought up by thieves, she inevitably has to be a thief. Moreover, some thoughts are rooted in her mind. For example, in the later part of the story, whenOliver had been trapped by Monk and Nancy decided to help him to get out, she still expressed that she would protect the gang and wouldn’t betray her companions, but more and more people will suffer from theft if the gang does not get punished.②ConclusionThe contradictory characterof Nancy, to an extent, are related with her growth background that lacks parents and the warmth of family, so she was mostly affected by the gang of thieves. However, she is still different from those cruel people, she has the good nature. Maybe she can be a good person if she is put into a different circumstance.①Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Chapter 4, Tsinghua university press, 2008②宋静,On the Character Nancy “Oliver Twist”, 晋中师范专科学校学报,2000。

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本科毕业论文题目:雾都孤儿中南希的人物性格分析学生姓名:学号:院部:外国语学院专业:英语年级:级指导教师姓名及职称:()完成日期:年月日An Analysis of Nancy’s character in OliverTwistA Thesis Submittedto School of Foreign Languages of Xinjiang University of Finance and Economicsin Partial Fulfillment of the Requirementsfor the Degree of Bachelor of ArtsBySupervisor:AcknowledgementsI would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis.I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Wang Ying who gives me considerable help suggestion, comments and criticism. His encouragement and unwavering support has sustained me through frustration and depression. Without his pushing me ahead, the completion of this thesis would be impossible.I would also want to express my gratitude to Liu Xiaoling, Mr.C , Wang Fengxia, Zhao Weili and other teachers who have taught me during these years for their brilliant and enlightening lectures in literature, translation and linguistics.In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to my parents and my friends who have been assisting, supporting me all of my life.摘要人类的性格是一种矛盾体,有许多色彩丑恶不堪,也有一些极其美丽。

这是一种矛盾,一种异态,一种表面看来不可能的现象,然而这是真实。

狄更斯在小说《雾都孤儿》中塑造的南希这一人物形象仅仅是小说中的一个次主要角色,但却是小说中一个极为典型的人物。

她不像小说中的其他人物一样表现出或者好或者坏的某一面,而是在某些时刻表现出来的好的一面,某些时刻又表现出坏的一面。

正因为这样,这个人物才更贴近于生活,这个人物性格之复杂才值得我们来探究。

本文以英国批判现实主义大师查尔斯·狄更斯的小说《雾都孤儿》为主要研究资料。

首先,本文从英国批判现实主义的定义及作者生平入手,再重点从她的一系列行动来分析她的双重性格及成因。

无论环境多么恶劣,它都无法泯灭人类本性中的善良成分并由此引出作者对人类善良本性的呼唤及对现代教育体系的批判,这不但能引起读者对这位迷途知返的“女贼”的同情,更有助于我们认识她所处的那个社会的真面目。

关键词:雾都孤儿;南希的双重性格;等级制度;批判主义AbstractHuman personality is a contradiction, there are many colors ugly bear, there are some extremely beautiful. This is a contradiction, an anomaly, a seemingly impossible situation, but it is true. Nancy is only one of the secondary major roles in the novel—"Oliver Twist" which written by Charles Dickens but it is a very typical figure in the novel. She was not like the other characters just show good side or the bad, but at some point, shows the positive side, sometimes show the mean one. Because of this, this figure is more close to life, its complexity character worth us to study. This thesis takes Oliver Twist written by famous critical realist author Charles Dickens as major material. Firstly, this article will begin with the definition of critical realism and Dickens’ life, then focus on a series of actions from her to analysis her character and factors. No matter how cruel the surrounding is, goodness will never be eliminated and the author wants to call for the nature of goodness and to criticize the education system in England. This can not only cause read ers to sympathy with this “Women Thief” who realize her errors and mend her ways, but also helps us to know the true features of that society.Key words:Oliver Twist; Nancy's double character; Hierarchy; CriticismTable of Contents Acknowledgements (I)Abstract (Chinese) (II)Abstract (III)Table of Contents (IV)Part One Introduction (1)Part Two An Introduction to the Author (1)2.1 The Author: Charles Dickens (1)2.1.1 The Definition of Critical Realism (2)2.1.2 Dickens’Life (2)2.1.3 Dickens’ Writing Style (3)2.2 The main story of Oliver Twist (4)Part Three An Analysis of Nancy’s Double Character (5)3.1 Nancy Hold a Candle to the Devil (5)3.1.1 Nancy is to Bug and Intercept Oliver (5)3.1.2 The Protection of Theft Gang (6)3.2 Nancy’s Good Nature (6)3.2.1 Nancy Saves Oliver in Distress (6)3.2.2 Nancy Reveals inside Story of Oliver’s Birth (7)3.2.3 Faithful to the Love (8)Part Four The Reasons for Nancy’s Complicated Characte r (9)4.1 Tragic Life of Nancy (9)4.1.1 Comparison between Nancy and Rose’s Birth (9)4.1.2 Significant Contrast between Nancy and Oliver’s Birth (10)4.2 Influence of Feudal Society on Nancy’s Character (10)4.2.1 Interpersonal Apathy Effects on Nancy’s Character (10)4.2.2 The Heavily Fortified Hierarchy (10)Part Five Associated with Modern Society (11)5.1 The Call of Goodness (11)5.2 Education System Needs to be Improved (11)Part Six Conclusion (12)Notes (13)Bibliography (14)Part One IntroductionCharles Dickens was a prominent critical realist in the mid 19th century. He has a world of sympathy for the misseries and a srong feeling for the poor laboring masses. He cried flout loud against social injustice but he had never thought of overthrowing the existing social order. By exposing the social injustice and the vices of the upper class, he puts his heart into depicting the miserable existence of the common people. He gives a truthful picture of capitalist England of the time.Dickens’vivid description creates many lifelike characters which impress the readers deeply in their memory after reading.Oliver Twist is one of his masterpieces which marked the beginning of his literary life. This novel was famous for exposing the dark sides of people lived out of that time. In this novel, Nancy is a typical character who lived in the bottom of the society. She had the same suffering with Oliver Twist, but she didn’t have a happy end like Oliver Twist. This thesis is provided to help readers appreciate this critical novel by analyzingNancy’s complex character. I’m going to explore the reasons of shaping her double characters from different aspects. By discovering the root of Dickens’ mind and association with modern society, I hope that will be helpful to understand his work. First, the basic information will be introduced to you.Part Two An Introduction to Oliver Twist2.1 The Author: Charles DickensCharles Dickens, one of the most famous writers, is the founder of critical realistic literature in the 19th century. Most of his works all belong to the literary masterpieces at home and abroad, which have the far-reaching influence upon the literature. The age he lived was the rising period of English capitalism. The transformation and the development of the society provided rich materials for his writing. Dickens wrote many works, connecting his miserable experiences with the capitalist society. In addition, a part of Dickens’ success was due to the influence of other critical writers. In that period, Dickens was “the classics known by everyone” and “the symbol of the mythic nationalism”, which was described by the modern literature critic, Phil Collins. This thesis will introduce him from three aspects: what is critical realism, Dickens’life and hiswriting styles.2.1.1The Definition of Critical RealismAs we all know that Dickens is a representative critical realist, but what is critical realism? Critical realism is a philosophical view of knowledge. On the one hand it holds that it is possible to acquire knowledge about the external world as it really is, independently of the human mind or subjectivity. That is why it is called realism. On the other hand it rejects the view of naïve realism that the external world is as it is perceived. Recognizing that perception is a function of, and thus fundamentally marked by, the human mind, it holds that one can only acquire knowledge of the external world by critical reflection on perception and its world. That is why it is called critical2.1.2 Dickens’ LifeCharles Dickens, the greatest representative of English critical realism, was born in 1812 at Portsmouth, where his father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. When he was about four yearsof age, his family moved to Chatham, and the five years he spent there were the happiest of all his boyhood. What schooling Dickens had he got at Chatham at a small day-school.In 1821 the Dickens family moved to a poor quarter in London. Mr. Dickens was heavily in debt and did not know which way to turn for money. The few possessions they had were sold one by one, but things still went from bad to worse. Finally Mr. Dickens was taken to the Marshalsea Prison, London, for debt. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Dickens and the younger children went to the prison to join the father.Meanwhile the 12-year-old Charles, weak and sensitive, was sent to work in an underground cellar at a blacking factory in the East End of London. Work there began at eight in the morning and ended at eight at night. His job was "to cover the pots of paste-blacking; first with a piece of oil-paper, and then with a bit of blue paper; to tie them round with a string; and then to clip the paper close and neat, all round, until it looked as smart as a pot of ointment from an apothecary's shop". After this, he had to paste on the printed label. He worked thus at the scanty wage of 6 shillings a week. It was the most unhappy time throughout his whole life. He was lonely and hungry. He felt his early hope of growing up to be a learned and famous man crushed in his heart. Years later he wrote: "I never said, to man or boy, how it was I came to be there, or gave the least indication of being sorry that I was there. That I suffered in secret, and that I suffered exquisitely, no one ever knew but me."Sundays he spent at the prison, and during the week he was out working all day. He had to keep himself in food on his own wages. "I tried, but ineffectually, not to anticipate my money, and to make it last the week through; by putting it away in a drawer … wrapped up in six little parcels, each parcel containing the same amount, and labeled with a different day. I know that I lounged about the streets, insufficiently and unsatisfactorily fed. I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been … a little robber or a little vagabond."Then his fortune took a turn for the better. He left the blacking factory and studied at school again. But his miserable life at the factory left an everlasting, painful brand on the boy's mind. Years later, when he was a man, he would not walk by the place where the factory had been situated. All this had a deep influence on Dickens's thought and work in after years.When Dickens was 15, he left school for good and became a lawyer's clerk. After work, he learned shorthand and visited the British Museum Library, filling up the gaps in his education by reading. The work at the lawyer's office afforded him the basis of a confirmed opinion of the law of England, "which one is likely to derive from the impression that it puts all the honest men under the diabolical hooves of all the scoundrels". Then he became a Parliamentary reporter for newspapers. Thus Dickens gained first-hand knowledge of the parliamentary government under capitalism and he never wavered in his understanding of it as an instrument for wielding and disguising the power of the upper classes. In 1834 he was taken on the staff of a newspaper and went all over the country getting news, writing stories, meeting people and learning about life in general.2.1.3 Dickens’ writing styleCharles Dickens has a very distinct writing style; he writes in a poetic way and uses a lot of satire and consequently humor. Since Dickens's started off his literary career writing papers for newspapers most of his stories are in an episodic form. He is a master using this method in his stories, using cliff hanger endings he was able to keep his readers interested in his stories. Dickens use idealized characters in his books, but this in itself can be a very bad thing because an idealized character does not have any room to grow throughout the course of the book. However Dickens does not make all of his characters perfect, rather he uses his idealized characters to contrast the ugly side of life that he so often portrays. Oliver Twist is an example of one of his idealized characters, during the course of the book Oliver is put through many trialsincluding an evil orphanage and a small training center for thieves. Throughout all of this Oliver is naive and his values are never compromised even though he is put in very difficult situations. Seeing the ugly circumstances that Oliver so often occupies, it is no wonder that Dickens chose to idealize Oliver and give the reader something to love completely. If Dickens had not idealized Oliver the book would have been dark with very little joy in it.Dickens also loves to employ incredible circumstances in his books. In Oliver Twist, Oliver turns out to be the nephew of the rich high class family that rescues him from the gang of thieves that Oliver had fallen in with. Using these incredible coincidences was popular for authors during Dickens's time, but he uses it in a distinct way. While other authors of the period would use the method to further their plot in their simple picturesque stories, Dickens's took the approach that good will triumph over evil sometimes even in very unexpected ways and he used the method of incredible circumstances to show his outlook.2.2 The Main Story of Oliver Twist"Oliver Twist", written in 1837-38, tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provide a description of the lower depths of London. Oliver Twist is of unknown parentage. He is born in a workhouse and brought up under cruel conditions. The tyrant at whose hands he especially suffers is Bumble, the parish beadle. After serving an unhappy apprenticeship to an undertaker, he runs away to London, where he falls into the hands of a gang of thieves. The head of the gang is old Fagin, and the other chief members are the burglar, Bill Sikes, his mistress Nancy, and the Artful Dodger, a young pickpocket. Every effort is made to convert Oliver into a thief. He is rescued by the benevolent, rich Mr. Brownlow, but the thieves kidnap him, make him join them once again and participate in their foul dealings. A bad person named Monks, hand in glove with the thieves, has somehow a special interest in keeping Oliver in the gang. Then Oliver is made to accompany Bill Sikes on a burgling expedition, in the course of which he receives a gun-shot wound, and comes into the hands of Mrs. Maylie and her protégée Rose, by whom he is kindly treated. After a time, Nancy reveals to Rose that Monks knows Oliver's parentage, and wishes all proof of it destroyed; also that there is some relationship between Oliver and Rose herself. They make some inquiry about the matter. But Fagin discovers Nancy's action and tells Sikes, who, in a fit of rage, murders her. A hue and cry is raised. Sikes, trying to escape, accidentally hangs himself and the rest of the gangs are arrested and Fagin executed. Monks isnow compelled to confess what remains unknown. Rose is the sister of Oliver's unfortunate mother. Oliver is adopted by Mr. Brownlow. Monks dies in prison. Bumble, the cruel persecutor of Oliver, ends his career in the workhouse over which he formerly ruled.Part Three An Analysis of Nancy’s Double Character There are many different opinions on whether people are born well or bad. Chinese Confucianism says that all human are born with good nature. While the Bible says that people all sinned to Adam. In this novel, Nancy’s character is complex and ambiguous, and she is just like a unit of angle and evil. On the one hand, she has done numerous crimes under control of Fagin as a young female thief. On the other hand, she tries all her best to help Oliver out from the thief gang with the awareness of disgrace in herself and evil in her fellow gang, gradually, she wakes up and regrets, stands up and defenses against evil and oppression. At last, she overcomes evil by making the sublimating of spirit and breakthrough of nature. It’s just this double nature that well reflects the reality at that time.3.1 Nancy Hold a Candle to the Devil3.1.1 Nancy is to Bug and Intercept OliverThe first thing which can prove her evil is her effort in the process of recapturing Oliver Twist. When Oliver Twist innocently goes out to “make handkerchiefs” because of no income coming in, with two of Fagin’s underlings: the artful Dodger and a boy of a humorous nature named Charley Bates, Oliver realizes too late that their real mission is to pick pockets. Dodger and Charley steal the handkerchief of Mr. Brownlow, and promptly flee. To the judge’s evident disappointment, a bookstall holder who saw Dodger commit the crime and clears Oliver who now is sickness and faints in the courtroom. Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver home and along with his housekeeper Mrs. Bedwin cares for him. Sikes and Fagin worried that Oliver might inform on them. So decides that Oliver must be brought back to his hideout. They want to ask Betsy go out in search of direction in which Oliver has gone, but Betsy unexpectedly tactful and cleverly refused. Then they convinced Nancy to find Oliver and take him back, although she was reluctant to do this, she actually does a good job. She dressed like a gentlewoman so that she could easily get Oliver’s information where Oliver is from the policeman. She tells to Sikes andFagin that Oliver wasn’t accused of thieving and removed to a gentleman’s house. Nancy knows that this means to bring Oliver back to the hell again, she winds up attending it, presumably after physically threatened by Fagin and Sikes as she has the mind of listening to the fate and she doesn’t figure out of her expectation by her innocence. Nancy regrets deeply for her wrongdoings, but we can’t deny that it is her that finds out where Oliver lives and it is her that draws Oliver back to the Fagin’s gang, the social evil. Her twice courses of action can prove that the evil inside of her characteristics.3.1.2 The Protection of Theft GangIn the later part of the novel, when Nancy decides to help Oliver get out of Monks’ trap, she also shows the protection of their gang by saying that she will not betray her companions. There is no doubt that it will cause negative social influence. More and more innocent children like Oliver will be hurt if theft gang doesn’t get punishment. She encourages bad atmosphere, she just makes the world darker.3.2 Nancy’s Good NatureSo far we have discovered her villainous facet. However, the conscience and sympathy for the poor child don’t extinct in her nature.In this novel, Nancy first appears in chapter 19. Dickens describes her from Oliver’s point of view. “She is not exactly pretty, but she has a great deal of color in her face, and looks quite stout and hearty.” This description shows that Nancy isa good girl. Her later behavior shows that she is clever, kind and cautious.3.2.1 Nancy Saves Oliver in DistressNancy’s good nature mainly embodies in her protection of little Oliver. After Oliver is caught and taken to the dirty room again, he feels dismayed, flees and attempts to call for police assistance, but is ruthlessly dragged back by the Dodger, Charley and Fagin. Nancy, however, is sympathetic towards Oliver and saves him from beatings by Fagin and Sikes:The Jew inflicted a smart blow on Oliver’s shoulders with the club: and was raising it for a second, when the girl, rushing forward, wrested it from his hands. She flung it into the fire, with a force that brought some of the glowing coals whirling out into the room. “I won’t stand by and see it done, Fagin, ”cried the girl, “you have got the boy, and what more would you have?”She seems to be reminded of her own long-lost innocence when she looks at Oliver. When Sikes shows his dog to Oliver, she jumps to his defense trying to help Oliver for the first time,and yells at Fagin:I thieved for you when I was a child not half as old as this (pointing to Oliver). I have been in the same trade, and in the same service, for twelve years since; don’t you know it?①Beyond doubt, it is her that finds out where Oliver is and catches him back. But when Fagin inflicts a smart blow on Oliver’s shoulders with the club, she is shocked. She stands up for protection of Oliver and cries out to Fagin and Sikes. It’s the first time she has the courage to stand up against her evil leaders and fellow gangs. These words are enough to show her kindness to shock the readers.3.2.2 Nancy Reveals inside Story of Oliver’s BirthHer later behavior is even more marvelous than we can imagine. As stated in last section, Nancy has recognized evil in herself and her fellow gang. So she tries her best to help Oliver out from the hurt and corruption of the gang. The deserted child Oliver doesn’t know who his parents are, not to speak of his old brother. But Monks knows Oliver is his brother. It is Miss Rose and Mr. Brownlow’s victory of justice over Monks, Fagin and Sikes with the help of Nancy that reveals mystery of Oliver’s birth. Monks comes to London not for the reunion of brothers but for his father’s heritage. According to his father’s will, if Oliver indulges in any crime in society, he would be denied the right of heritage. After investigation in secret, Monks finds Oliver is in the hands of Fagin. And he makes a deal with Fagin-if Fagin can hold Oliver tightly and train him to be a thief so that Oliver would be put into prison, he would get a large sum of money without dividing any part to his younger brother. In order to get his father’s heritage, Monks has destroyed all the subjects which can prove Oliver is his brother. All the things seem to be processed and be planned very well. But Nancy hears their conspiracy in a dark corner and is exceedingly shocked again. Before she is determined to tell Miss Rose the entire secret, while she experiences severe struggle in her heart:When the girl got into the open street, she sat down upon a doorstep; and seemed, for a few moments, wholly bewildered and unable to pursue her way. Suddenly she arose; and hurrying on, in a direction quite opposite to that in which Sikes was awaiting her return, quickened her space, until it gradually resolved into a violent run. After completely exhausting herself, she stopped to take breath; and, as if suddenly recollecting herself, and deploring her inability to do something she was bent upon, wrung her hands, and bursting into tears. It mightbe that her tears relieved her or that she felt the full hopelessness of her condition; but she turned back.②From the quotations above, it is obvious that she suffers the struggle of whether she should tell Miss Rose of Monks and Fagin’s conspiracy. But several days later, her goodness in her nature finally overcome her evil in heart. So she is determined to tell Miss Rose the entire secret at London Bridge. She shows her fearless self-sacrifice to prevent Oliver from being kidnapped a second time. As a member of Fagin’s gang, she really has done a lot of thefts, but when Oliver is in danger, she immediately gives a hand to save this child’s fate. It is her who reveals mystery of Oliver’s birth and changes his fate. She cares for Oliver so profoundly that it results her death. She falls on blood and draws from her bosom a white handkerchief which Rose gives her.Her image is so mixed and complicated for her special characteristics. In nature, she finishes the baptism of her soul from evil to angle this time. With remorse and awareness, she finishes the great turning from evil to good and makes the remarkable breakthrough in her mind and action.3.2.3 Faithful to the LoveIn Oliver Twist, Nancy is the mistress of Sikes who is the second leader of theft. The author has an ulterior motive when he named Nancy and Sikes while N and S are just like two poles of the magnetic needle. This suggests that these two people themselves are a pair of irreconcilable contradictory unity which is both opposite and unitary, also live together. Maybe she knows that Sikes is just regard her as a maid, but she still treats him as her beloved at his mercy. She can’t betray Sikes the man she loves deeply and blindly.When Rose learns about Nancy’s tragic fate, she shows great sympathy to her and tries to help her to find a new life. But Nancy declines over and over again. She says: “I told you about a man who is the most ruthless of the outlaws. But I can’t leave him, even if you can let me get out of the sufferings, I also can’t leave him” Ironically, when Sikes mistakenly believes that she has informed on him, he killed her. In face of death, she pleaded: “They can give me a house in abroad and let me live quietly and peacefully. Let me see once again with them and let me kneeling in front of them, asking for their forgiveness for both of us. Then we leave this place. In addition to pray, we will no longer mention our past.” But the angered Sikes is unlikely to forgive her, let alone together with her go away from the land. Nancy’s love for Sikes suggeststhat the boundary between virtue and vice is not always clearly drawn. No matter what factors in support of Nancy’s love, also ignore the result of her love, readers will be moved by her love and also feel sorry for Nancy’s cost of her love.Part Four The Reasons for Nancy’s Complicated Character 4.1 Tragic Life of NancyThough the author does not designedly give a detailed description and concrete information about Nancy’s identity and age in the book, it might be transpired from the whole novel that Nancy was corrupted at the age of six by Fagin, the receiver of stolen goods who persuades downtrodden youths to do this bidding. When she made her first appearance she has already been a young thief and has evidently been a prostitute and lived with Sikes for 12 years, so she is visibly in her teens. But where is her family? Where are her parents? Presumably she is a child deserted by parents for poverty or has no parents as Dodger and Oliver. There is a kind angle in the bottom of her heart while she has no choice but to steal just for surviving. She is not the result of Dickens’ imagination, but it is the mirror and epitome of the nineteenth century.4.1.1 Comparison between Nancy and Rose’s BirthThe meeting of Rose and Nancy represents that two girls hold the same purity and goodness. It is not Nancy’s choice to have the miserable life. Nancy’s parentless background and living with criminals also determined her ruin. It’s obvious that Nancy failed to avoid or run away from the cruel service and life. Nancy says this when she meets Rose:“ ‘Thank heaven upon your knees, dear lady,’ cried the girl, ‘ that you and friends to care for and keep you in childhood, and that you were never in the midst of cold and hunger, and riot and drunkenness, and-and something worse than all –as I have been from my cradle. I may use the world, for the ally and the gutter were mine, as they will be my death’”.③Nancy’s words indicate that she feels the unbreakable bond with the underworld. It is apparent that the unavoidable fate is on Nancy’s life when we compare Rose’s birth with Nancy’s. There is also illegitimacy and unhappiness in Rose’s life. Rose is a sister who has different mother from Oliver’s mother, Agnes Fleming, and their father died of a broken heart and left Rose and Agnes in his sister. Later Agnes gave a birth to Oliver as an unmarried motherand died alone in her youth. In contrast, Rose was fortunately saved by Mrs. Maylie after she was brought up by the poor cottagers. Despite Rose’s illegitimate birth, as reed points out, Rose is clearly marked virtuous predominance and described as the moral excellence in the novel. Considering Rose’s fortunes, I believe that Nancy’s double character can be explained partly from her tragic life or being as a thief’s instrument.4.1.2 Significant Contrast between Nancy and Oliver’s BirthOliver is a boy who is born in a workhouse. He has no idea of his parents’ identity. His mother Agnes died in childbirth. So he is a poor boy when he is a little boy. When worked in the workhouse, by a pure chance he is chosen as a scapegoat by the other starving boys to ask for an extra helping at a mealtime. So, he said “Please, sir, I want some more.” As a result, he is sold by the workhouse as an undertaker’s apprentice. The cruelty he suffers at the hands of an older apprentice causes him to run away. He finds his way to London. So we can see that when Oliver Twist is a young boy, he lived in a world filled with dirty and criminal. Compared with Nancy, they are all tortured by the terror and violence but the difference is Oliver has gotten some warm help from good people such as Brownlow, Rose and Nancy. They are living in a similar environment but have vastly different fate.4.2 Influence of Feudal Society on Nancy’s Character4.2.1 Interpersonal Apathy Effects on Nancy’s CharacterWhen Dickens is writing the novel Oliver Twist, the whole England was in the first Industrial Revolution period. The Industrial Revolution was a time of dramatic change. Workers became more productive, and since more products were manufactured, prices of goods dropped. It makes more products available to the poor and the rich. Inventions and technological innovation have brought new forces to the national economy. England became a “world factory”. But under the mask of prosperity and wealth of the working class, lower class has experienced poverty and misfortune. In order to make a living, even women and little children should go to dangerous dirty factories to sell coolies. So in this situation, this novel is a reflection of the real life of England, especially the poor life of lower class. In this kind of realistic society, between the person and person’s sentiment is getting much fainter. Just because of this apathy that formeda complex character of Nancy.4.2.2 The Heavily Fortified Hierarchy。

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