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Teachers & SchoolsOliver might be the main character, but he’s not all that complicated (he's an innocent...
Fagin is pretty clearly a bad guy. We're not quibbling with the fact that a dude who thinks,...
Okay, we try to be detached observers and analysts of literature, but sometimes characters just...
The Artful Dodger is one of the most famous and memorable characters in the novel... and it's not...
Charley Bates serves the same role as the Dodger—comic relief—but in a slightly...
Is there anything at all likeable about Sikes? Seriously, what does Nancy see in this guy? Sikes...
Mr. Brownlow is Oliver’s first friend and mentor. He’s had a rough life—he was...
Mrs. Maylie is just so dang good, it’s hard to know what to say about her. She apparently...
Rose is the sweetest, loveliest, most virtuous young lady ever. She’s pretty much a stock...
Harry doesn’t actually appear all that much in the novel, but from what we’re able to...
Mr. Giles is the butler/steward at Mrs. Maylie’s house. This is an odd position: he’s...
Mr. Grimwig is a typical Dickens character: he's eccentric, and his eccentricity takes the form...
Mr. Bumble is the beadle in the town where Oliver is born. As beadle, he’s responsible for...
Mrs. Corney is cautious, distrustful, cruel, and power-hungry. We first meet her when she’s...
Meet our resident Big Bad: Monks is the primary villain of the novel, in that he’s the one...
Noah’s another typical minor Dickens character, in that he’s grotesque, absurd, and...
Agnes gets the first and the last words of the novel, so even though she’s only alive for...