Brownlow’s pocket the sole representative of the legal profession in the novel depicted as a very unpleasant character. The magistrate: Oliver is presented before him on charge of picking Mr. The co-leader of Fagin’s gang: dirty, unshaven and scowling, looks every inch a criminal that he is: savage, coarse and vicious can scarcely be called a human being brutally murders Nancy though she is very faithful to him: gets accidentally hanged in the end.Ī young girl working for Fagin and his gang, sincerely in love with Sikes but is cruelly murdered by him humane and courageous responsible for capturing Oliver and bringing him back to Fagin later plays a very significant role in restoring him to respectability.Ī minor member of Fagin’s gang: callow and dullheaded mainly used as a foil for the Artful Dodger.Īnother member of Fagin’s gang: a highly professional and skilful robber, accompanies Sikes and Oliver for the robbery at Chertsey.Īnother Jew the waiter at the Three Cripples partly responsible for the management of the burglary at Chertsey.Ī convict who had been transported overseas but had returned illegally appears just once in the novel probably to lend extra colour to the scene of Sikes’ death The usual companion of the Artful Dodger an important member of Fagin’s gang very sprightly: he relieves the gloom and tension of Fagin’s world gets reformed in the end. The chief pupil of Fagin it is he who takes Oliver to Fagin attractive but unscrupulous: like Fagin, his most important principle in life is to take care of number one’. The old Jew in whose hands Oliver falls in London he is ‘a very old, shrivelled Jew, whose villainous-looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair’: a creature of darkness, in the habit of calling everyone ‘my dear’ in complicity with Monks tries to make Oliver a permanent member of his gang publicly hanged in the end. The inmates of the workhouse they too discover the secret of Oliver’s parentage. The old lady who attends Oliver’s mother at the time of his birth she is the one who holds the secret of his parentage.

Bumble marries her and she reduces him to a hen-pecked husband. The matron of the workhouse where Oliver was born greedy, mean and hard-hearted Mr.

Oliver’s little friend and playmate Oliver meets him on his way to London another innocent victim of the parochial system. Mann.Ī charity-boy employed at the Sowerberrys it is because of his bullying that Oliver leaves for London in Londe becomes a spy for Fagin still later is a police informer he is gree and is destined for a life of petty crime.Ī maid-servant at the Sowerberrys soft-hearted blindly devoted to Noah Claypole.

Sowerberry’s wife: ‘a short, thin, squeezed-un woman, with a vixenish countenance’: almost as inhuman as Mrs.

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