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.

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