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Line 1: {{work}} {{Infobox book [[File:OliverTwist_6957.jpg\|frame]]▼ \| title = Oliver Twist \| original title = Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress ▲~~[[File:~~ \| image = OliverTwist_6957.jpg~~\|frame]]~~ \| caption = Please, sir, I want some more. \| author = Charles Dickens \| central theme = \| elevator pitch = The life of a young orphan in 1830s London \| genre = Social novel \| publication date = 1838 \| source page exists = yes \| wiki URL = https://oliver-twistcharles-dickens.fandom.com/wiki/Oliver_Twist-Charles_Dickens_Wiki \| wiki name = Oliver Twist Wiki }} {{quote\|''Please, sir, I want some more.''\|'''Oliver Twist'''}} Line 9 ⟶ 21: The story has been adapted many times throughout the years, with some adaptations taking more liberties than others. One in particular, the 1960 [[The Musical\|musical]] version, ''[[Oliver!]]''; the 1968 film version was successful enough to win Best Picture that year. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} ~~=== This book contains examples of: ===~~ * [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Played with. Nancy is fiercely loyal to the abusive Sikes, though she has no illusions about what he is. On the other hand, Rose falls for the [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness\|Incorruptibly Pure]] Harry. * [[The Artful Dodger]]: The [[Trope Namer]] Line 51 ⟶ 63: * [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Oliver and the Maylies. * [[Jerkass]]: Near the beginning, most authority figures. * [[Karma Houdini]]: Several, to varying extents. Charley Bates got off pretty easily, as he was something of a [[Creator's Pet]]. However, Dickens did try to make it realistic in the sense Charely's onscreen villainy was pretty low in the first place and while his [[Heel Realization]] drove him to an honest trade, it was enough to get by and little else. Noah Claypole got off for any criminal involvement with Fagin's gang in exchange for basically selling Fagin out eventually, and while he became a somewhat honest citizen by the end of the story, all of his [[Jerkass]] moments he never really had to answer for. * [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: After years of tyrannizing over the workhouse, the Bumbles {{spoiler\|end the novel ''in'' it.}} * [[Lemony Narrator]]: Dickens' authorial voice is well known for this trope. * [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Or better said, {{spoiler\|"Oliver, I'm your [[Disappeared Dad]]'s best friend".}} * [[May-December Romance]]. {{spoiler\|Edwin ~~Leefort~~Leeford}} was on both ends of this. First he married a much older woman ( {{spoiler\|Monks's mother}}) and theirs was a very unhappy union. Later he met a young girl named {{spoiler\|Agnes}} and they hit it off, but {{spoiler\|he suddenly died and Agnes ran away from her family. [[Death by Childbirth\|And we all know what happened to her]].}} * [[Meaningful Name]]: Many, as Dickens is known for this. * [[Missing Mom]]: Oliver's mother Agnes dies at the beginning of the novel. * [[Orphanage of Fear]]: Though it's actually a workhouse, ''Oliver Twist'' features probably the most infamous orphanage in literature. Line 100 ⟶ 114: ** The execution involves a [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare]]: Fagin is {{spoiler\|given the option of converting to Christianity to save himself}}, which is straight out of ''[[The Merchant of Venice]].'' {{The Big Read}} {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Films of the 1920s]] [[Category:~~Nineteenth~~Literature ~~Century~~of ~~Literature~~the 19th century]] [[Category:~~Oliver~~Public ~~Twist~~Domain Character]] [[Category:Serial Novel]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Literature]] [[Category:Character]] [[Category:British Literature]]