رد مع اقتباس[align=left]List of Characters
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Oliver Twist—Son of Edwin Leeford and Agnes Fleming, he is thought to be an orphan. A dear, grateful, gentle child, who “instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much.” He had not learned “that self-preservation is the first law of nature.”
Sally Thingummy—An old pauper woman who is an inmate of the workhouse and later dies there. She attends at Oliver’s birth, “rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer.”
Agnes Fleming—Oliver’s mother; the daughter of a retired naval officer. “She was found dying in the street . . . but where she came from, or where she was going to, nobody knows.”
Mrs. Mann—An elderly woman who conducts an infant farm (the then equivalent of a foster home). “A woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was good for children,” so of the funds provided for their sustenance “she appropriated the greater part . . . to her own use.”
Mr. Bumble—The parish beadle (a minor church official); “a fat man, and a choleric (cranky show-off) [with] a great idea of his oratorical powers and his importance.” “He had a decided propensity for bullying: derived no inconsiderable pleasure from the exercise of petty cruelty; and, consequently, was (it is needless to say) a coward.”
Mr. Limbkins—Head of the parish board; “a particularly fat gentleman with a very round, red face.”
The Workhouse Master—”A fat, healthy man.”
Gamfield—A chimney sweep, “whose villainous countenance was a regular stamped receipt for cruelty.”
Mr. Sowerberry—An undertaker; “a tall, gaunt, large-jointed man,” in matrimonial disputes denominated “a brute, an unnatural husband, an insulting creature, a base imitation of a man.”
Mrs. Sowerberry—”A short, thin, squeezed-up woman, with a vixenish [literally, fox-like] countenance, [having] a good deal of taste in the undertaking way.”
Charlotte—The Sowerberry’s maidservant; a somewhat sloppy girl, she is “of a robust and hardy make.”
Noah Claypole—Charity boy employed by Sowerberry, he later joins Fagin’s gang under the name of Morris Bolter. “A large-headed, small-eyed youth of lumbering make and heavy countenance.”
Little Dick—Oliver’s companion on the infant farm, with whom he “had been beaten, and starved, and shut up.”
John (Jack) Dawkins—The Artful Dodger; Fagin’s most esteemed pupil. A pickpocket and thief, he is a dirty “snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy . . . short of his age; with rather bowlegs, and little, sharp, ugly eyes.”
Fagin—The master criminal; “a very old shriveled Jew, whose villainous-looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair.”
Charles Bates—One of Fagin’s gang; “a very sprightly” young boy given to uproarious laughter.
Betsy—Member of the Fagin gang. “Not exactly pretty, perhaps; but . . . looked quite stout and hearty.”
Nancy—Trusted and resourceful member of Fagin’s gang. Untidy and free in manner, but “there was something of the woman’s original nature left in her still.”
Mr. Brownlow—”A very respectable-looking personage” with a heart “large enough for any six ordinary old gentlemen of humane disposition.”
Mr. Fang—A notorious magistrate; a “lean, long-backed, stiff-necked, middle-sized man, with no great quantity of hair.”
The Bookseller—”An elderly man of decent but poor appearance.”
Mrs. Bedwin—Brownlow’s housekeeper; “a motherly old lady, very neatly and precisely dressed.” [/center]
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