Oliver Twist

The first Oliver Twist film was released in 1907. It does not appear to be available.

A review of movies based on Oliver Twist can be found on a number of websites. IMDB is a good one.

In the musical, at least, it was a miniature portrait of Agnes herself.

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In Dicken's novel "Oliver Twist" (1838), Noah Claypole is about the same age as Oliver, which is about 9 or 10 years old.

Some believe that the book is better and some believe the movie is better. I have not read the book before but remember what's in the book isn't always in the movie.

Charles Dickens Started Writing Oliver Twist In 1837 And Finished Writing The Whole Book In 1838. (It Only Took A Year To Write The Whole Book, Wow!)

Oliver Twist:

The Son of Agnes Fleming and Edwin Leeford. Leeford disappeared while guarding an inheritance. Agnes died in childbirth. He was a gentle child with a sweet and noble nature. He seemed not to have learned that "self preservation is the first law of nature." Sally:

She attended Oliver's birth at the workhouse and later dies a pauper in there. Not much is described in the book. Mrs. Mann:

An old woman who runs a "baby farm." To be blunt, she actually starved the children. More than half the funds meant to sustain the children went to her own personal use. Oliver was sent here for the first 9 years of his life. Mr. Bumble:

A beadle (A minor parish official formerly employed in an English church to usher and keep order during services. {answers.com}). He is very prominant in the book. He seemed to like flogging Oliver. This needs more indepth comparisons. The Workhouse Master:

Not much so say. He's a "Fat, healthy man." Gamfield:

When Oliver had asked for another protion of gruel (the boys at the workhouse had barely one helping) the board asked anyone to apprentice him for 5 pounds. Gamfield, an old chimney sweeper, say this advertisement and went to claim the five pounds. Oliver was stricken with fear ( I wouldn't want to go with a chimney sweep, would you?) and a kindly board member (name?) saw this. The request was rejected and Oliver remained at the workhouse. Fagin:

A master criminal. he is the leader of an infamous ring of thieves including the Artful Dodger, Bates, Nancy and Bill Sikes. He was described as a Jew having Red hair. He tried to lure Oliver into a life of thieving(yoho yoho a pirates life for me). There is plenty of information in the book, too much to list here. Oliver encountered him when a boy saw him hungry and sleeping on a doorstep. The boy took him to a bar where a warm hot drink lulled Oliver to sleep. I think Fagin took him to the thieves headquarters after. Bill Sikes:

Nancy's lover. he's also a fellow thief, a very violent one at that. He owns Bulls-eye, his pet dog which he often mistreats. He also Murders [Sorry, no-can-tell ;)]. He wanders off for a day comprehending what he had just done. He hangs himself while trying to escape from an angry mob. The Artful Dodger:

Jack Dawkins is his real name. He is a pick-pocket trained by Fagin. He was eventually found out the shipped off to Australia. Charley Bates:

A friend of Fagin and the Artful Dodger. He helped the dodger steal an old man's wallet, a crime whom Oliver is blamed for. At the end of the novel, he reforms and no longer lives a life of thieving.

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Fagin was a Jewish receiver of stolen goods and leader of a gang of young theives and pickpockets in London. Many interpret the descriptions of Fagin to imply pedophelia. He's hired by Oliver's half-brother Monks to corrupt and later to kill Oliver, so Monks can inherit a fortune that should go to Oliver. Fagin is captured at the end of the book and hanged.

Not only because it's short and poignant, but because it's representative of the plight of all workhouse inmates and the truly horrible--deliberately horrible--conditions in which they were forced to live.

If you are a member of Netflix, you can watch the 1985 version on your computer.

Because he was born in the workhouse and was not looked after properly, the little Oliver Twist was undernourished, but he was not crippled.

A melodrama is defined as having a romantic plot with a sensational development, usually relying heavily on the evocation of the audience's feelings and with a superficial arrival to poetic justice. Superficial in the sense that the ending is usually happy, and characters are punished accordingly based on their deeds. Oliver Twist can certainly be looked upon in that way--it's a pretty dramatic plot that uses extreme events to stir the audience's emotions, and Oliver sees a happy ending, while the crooks are all jailed and/or eventually killed. But Oliver Twist is a lot more complex than just that. Dickens is trying to point to a variety of social issues through the plot, and there is quite a bit of character development, not to mention murkier elements, i.e. the death of Nancy? Take a look here for more answers on these complexities, and character developments: http://www.shmoop.com/intro/literature/charles-dickens/oliver-twist.html

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Bill Sikes is a friend of Nancy which is Fagins friend. Bill Sikes trys to teach Oliver how to be a criminal that steals stuff from people. He keeps stealing Oliver from other people.

They dont ever say for the 1968 musical of Oliver but the 2005 version Charley Bates is played by Lewis Chase (born 1991)

Oliver can't sleep because he is afraid of Fagin and Bill Sykes.

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