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Character of ‘Nancy’ from “Oliver Twist” in comparison with the Bollywood Female Characters
Prepared byVaidehi Hariyani
Semester 2Batch 2015-17
Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English,Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
“Oliver Twist”• “Oliver Twist”, or
“The Parish Boy's Progress”.• Second novel by
Charles Dickens.• Published in 1938.
The Victorian “Angel in the House”
• Victimization of women characters in the novel. Example:- “Nancy”
“Nancy”
• Nancy is a prostitute, and she is a symbol of ‘fallen woman’.
• She is part of the criminal world as well.
• Murdered by his own lover Bill Sikes.
Why a ‘fallen woman’???
Role of Society
“Nancy’s living is the living of England, a nightmare society in which drudgery is endless and stupefying, in which the natural affections are warped, and the dignity of man appears only in resolution and violence.”
Bollywood Female Characters
• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
-Simone de Beauvoir • Similarly, One is not born Fallen, but the society forces and tags One as Fallen.
Thank You
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