Vem är fagin i oliver twist
In a Jewish mother-of-ten called Eliza Davis wrote to berate, in the most charm-mixed-with-chutzpah of ways, the author Charles Dickens about his character Fagin in Oliver Twist. In the preface to the novel, he is described as a "receiver of stolen goods".
Mr. Bumble
He is the leader of a group of children the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates among them whom he teaches to make their livings by pickpocketing and other criminal activities, in exchange for shelter. A distinguishing trait is his constant and insincere use of the phrase "my dear" when addressing others. At the time of the novel, he is said by another character, Monks , to have already made criminals out of "scores" of children.
Nancy , who is the lover of Bill Sikes the novel's lead villain , is confirmed to be Fagin's former pupil. Fagin is a confessed miser who, despite the wealth that he has acquired, does very little to improve the squalid lives of the children he guards, or his own. In the second chapter of his appearance, it is shown when talking to himself that he cares less for their welfare, than that they do not "peach" inform on him and the other children.
Still darker sides to the character's nature are shown when he beats the Artful Dodger for not bringing Oliver back; in his attempted beating of Oliver for trying to escape; and in his own involvement with various plots and schemes throughout the story. He indirectly but intentionally causes the death of Nancy by falsely informing Sikes that she had betrayed him, when in reality she had shielded Sikes from the law, whereupon Sikes kills her.
Near the end of the book, Fagin is captured and sentenced to be hanged, in a chapter that portrays him as pitiable in his anguish. In popular culture, Fagin or at least his name is used in comparison with adults who use children for illegal activities. Fagin is portrayed as a criminal mastermind who kidnaps orphaned children and trains them to be pickpockets in return for sheltering and feeding them; he keeps the ill-gotten money for himself.
He also trained the novel's main antagonist, housebreaker Bill Sikes , who later became his main source of stolen goods. Oliver at first believes that Fagin is an artisan who makes wallets and handkerchiefs which are, in fact, stolen at Fagin's order, and goes along with his new teacher's orders. The only one in the gang to protect Oliver is Nancy, who is also Sikes's lover.
Mr. Brownlow
After Oliver is arrested for supposedly picking the pocket of a gentleman named Mr. Brownlow an act actually committed by the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates , Brownlow takes pity on Oliver and brings him to his house, helping him recover from the abuse and malnourishment he has suffered. Fagin and Sikes, fearing that Oliver will betray him to the police, force Nancy to help Sikes kidnap the boy again. Oliver tries to run away, but Sikes almost beats him into submission, stopping only when Nancy begs him to show mercy while the cowardly Fagin tries to smooth matters over between the two.
Fagin forces Oliver to help Sikes burgle a house owned by the wealthy, elderly widow Mrs. After breaking into the house, Oliver is shot in the arm and Sikes abandons him while he makes his own escape.
Maylie and her niece Rose take Oliver in and raise him in a polite society. Fagin later meets with a fellow criminal, the mysterious Mr. Monks, and plots with him to destroy Oliver's newfound reputation. To make sure Oliver never learns of his true parentage, Fagin and Monks conspire to buy a locket and a ring left to the boy by his late mother from Mr. Bumble and his wife, the former Mrs. Corney, and Monks throws them in the river.
Nancy, ashamed of her role in Oliver's kidnapping, tells Mr. Brownlow and Rose that Oliver is in danger, and secretly joins them in a plan to rescue him. Fagin becomes suspicious of Nancy and has Noah Claypole, who has recently joined his gang, follow her to one of her meetings with Brownlow and Rose. Upon learning what Nancy is up to, Fagin lies to Sikes that she intends to turn him over to the police, provoking Sikes to kill her.
Fagin and Monks attempt to flee London, but both are arrested. Monks, after being forced to confess his part, is given a second chance thanks to Mr. Brownlow and Oliver, but Fagin is sentenced to be hanged for his crimes. The night before Fagin's execution, Oliver visits him in prison, and Fagin rages against the entire world for the sorry end he has come to. The following day, he is hanged. Fagin's name comes from one of Dickens's friends he had known in his youth while working in a boot-blacking factory.
Fagin's character might be based on the criminal Ikey Solomon , who was a fence at the centre of a highly publicised arrest, escape, recapture, and trial. The popularity of Dickens's novel caused "fagin" to replace "kidsman" in some crime circles, denoting an adult who teaches minors to steal and keeps a major portion of the loot. Other sources, such as Howard Mancing in The Cervantes Encyclopedia , claim that Fagin is assumed to be modelled on Monipodio, one of the main characters in Miguel de Cervantes ' Rinconete y Cortadillo Monipodio is the leader of a criminal gang in 17th-century Seville that includes cutpurses and cape stealers.
Fagin has been the subject of much debate over antisemitism , during Dickens' lifetime and in modern times. In an introduction to a Bantam Books reissue of Oliver Twist , for example, Irving Howe wrote that Fagin was considered an "archetypical Jewish villain.