Oliver Twist

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English

 

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Tracy B

 

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January 13, 2014

 

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When Oliver goes back to Fagin's home, Fagin tells the Dodger to make a bath for Oliver. Throughout the novel, Charles Dickens refers to Fagin as "Jew" or "The Jew." In the 1800's anti-Semitism was rife. Fagin is included in Oliver Twist to show Charles Dickens' opinion of what the Jews were like in the 1800's and so that Charles Dickens could try to tell his readers what life was like from the view of a low-life common thief - the Jew - Fagin...
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At the time many Jews, who had fled to England from persecution abroad, were so discriminated against by the law that they became travelling salesmen and stallholders. In these trades it was very easy to drift into receiving and selling stolen goods. The Jewish thief's characterizations do seem to owe much to ethnic stereotypes...
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