Vaidehi Hariyani

1. Character of ‘Nancy’ from “Oliver
Twist” in comparison with the
Bollywood Female Characters
Prepared by
Vaidehi Hariyani
Semester 2
Batch 2015-17
Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. “Oliver Twist”
• “Oliver Twist”, or
“The Parish Boy's
Progress”.
• Second novel by
Charles Dickens.
• Published in 1938.

3. The Victorian “Angel in the House”
• Victimization of women characters in
the novel. Example:- “Nancy”

5. “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’???

6. 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.”

8. Bollywood Female Characters

9. • 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.

10. Thank You

11. Open for Questions and Suggestions
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