《A Character Analysis of Nancy in Oliver Twist》.docVIP

成绩 重庆邮电大学本科生 课程论文 论文题目： A Character Analysis of Nancy in Oliver Twist 课程名称： 英国文学选读 任课教师： 王江 专 业： 英语 班　　级： 0511001 学　　号： 2010212309 姓　　名： 刘冬潇 2013年 1 月 15 日 重庆邮电大学外国语学院制 A Character Analysis of Nancy in Oliver Twist LIU Dongxiao Abstract: Nancy is one of the few characters in Oliver Twist to display and illustrate much ambivalence of a poor female who is a full-fledged criminal and also an innocent victim and sacrifice of the murky and decaying capitalism in the 19th century. She is an indispensible role for the happy ending of this gripping and unforgettable story棗Oliver Twist. 王The swing between good and evil, kidnapping and rescuing made her role more realistic and authentic as well as more close to the life of low class. The struggle and torture of her innate heart made us constantly focus on the deliberate change of her character. The miserable ending of her fate was inevitable in that complicated social background, so this essay will analyze the reasons that caused the formation her double character under that social background and environment. Key words: Oliver Twist, Nancy, character Charles Dickens is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period in Britain and he created some of the worlds most memorable fictional characters in the 19th century. In the Oliver Twist, although the fictional pure and innocent light from little poor Oliver’s eyes was an unforgettable plot after the reading of this book, the secondary character棗 Nancy who is very tcomplicated in the novel also lingers on and can’t escape from reader’s mind. In the Oliver Twist, the character of Nancy was tramped in the good and evil and full of contradictions in her deep heart. It seemingly that she can’t control her own fate. The depiction of the Nancy made her r