雾都孤儿.ppt

Charles Dickens
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Oliver Twist
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Contents
Author
Main characters
Plots
Major themes and symbols
My understandings
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Author: Charles Dickens
Birth: 7 February 1812
Death: 9 June 1870 (aged 58)
British novelist, withdrawn from school,12
Describe the ugly masks of the criminals and show the horror areas in London
His other notable works, such as Great Expectations, David Copperfield and so on.
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Main characters
Negative characters:
Fagin - crime leader, trains Oliver as a pickpocket.
Bill Sikes -another main antagonist, who kills Nancy.
Jack Dawkins -gives Oliver a meal and takes Oliver to see Fagin.
Monks-Oliver’s older brother, doesn’t split his inheritance.
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Positive characters:
Oliver Twist –orphan, a kind and pure-hearted child ,suffers in huge pain.
Mr. Brownlow - A well-off, erudite gentleman who serves as Oliver’s first benefactor.
Nancy -one of Fagin’s former child pickpockets, Mr. Sike’s girlfriend, but she shows sympathy to Oliver.
Mrs. Maylie - A kind, wealthy older woman, adopts Rose-Oliver’s aunt .
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Plots
Born in a workhouse as an orphan ,Oliver is forced to work there without being given enough food.
Oliver is sold to Mr. Sowerberry , an undertaker (unhappy there, Oliver runs away to London)
Please, sir, I want some more.
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Meets the Artful Dodger and joins a pickpocket gang led by Fagin.
First steal –Oliver is caught (a bookstall holder clears Oliver , Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver home)
Oliver is bundled back to Fagin's lair .(Nancy saves Oliver from beatings given by Fagin and Sikes.)
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Oliver is shot while helping Sikes to burgle the house of a Mrs Maylie (Oliver is adopted and looked after by Rose and Mrs Maylie)
The mystery of Oliver’s parents, Mr. Brownlow is a friend of Oliver’s father(Nancy helps to save Oliver ,Sikes beats her to death .)
The endings: Sikes hangs himself to death ,Fagin is arrested and, Monks dies in prison. Oliver finds his aunt—Rose and is adopted by Mr. Brownlow.
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