Oliver Twist: Desire and fear

1. Mrs. Mann (The baby farm manager)

Desire/Fear Main Action Result &impact
 Desire:  Result:
 Greedy: she kept for  She can get
her own use the more money to
money that she was fulfill her
given for the needs in her
children’s food. living.
 Abuse: she pretends  Impact:
to care for the  The children
children in the didn’t have
workhouse, but in much food to
actual fact bullies, eat or much
abuses, and mistreats clothing
them. She didn’t  Children live
show any affection with starvation
or look after the and lack of
baby. hygiene
 Fear:
 She was afraid of being
caught by the board that
she didn’t look after the
children, and treat them
badly and she took
advantage of them.

2. Noah Claypole

Desire/ Fear Main action Result& Impact

  He bullied Oliver  Result
 Desire
by mocking him  He becomes an
 He wants to gain
 He stole the important witness
attention when he
wealth from Mr. for the police to
lived in Mr.
Sowerberry arrest Fagin.
Sowerberry’s house
 He wants to destroy  He joins the Gang  He got a free
Oliver’s life because of Fagin pardon for telling
he jealous of Oliver police about Fagin.
 He became
employed as an
informer for the
police, spying on
people and telling
the police about
anyone who had
broken the law.
 Fear  Impact
 He has fear of losing  Police should
attention or admiration not take people
from Mr. Sowerberry who were a
criminal to
 He has fear of being a work in their
criminal because he department
was caught in the  People who did
crime something
wrong should
get punishment

3. Mr. Brownlow
Desire/ Fear Main action Result& Impact
 Desire  Help Oliver  Result
 He wants to save  Putting Posters to  He gets successful in
Oliver from Fagin to find Oliver proving Oliver’s
prove that Oliver is  Investigating innocence
an innocent boy Oliver’s background  He adopts Oliver as
 He helps Oliver find  Trying to prove that his son
his true identity and  At the end of the
 helps Oliver to get Oliver is an innocent story, after the true
an inheritance child identity of Oliver
 He adopts Oliver as  Kidnapping Monks was revealed,
his son because Monks pay Fagin’s Gang
Fagin to make remained.
Oliver into a
criminal then he will
claim all the
family’s full
inheritance.
 Fear:  Impact
 Fear of Oliver is  Oliver was living a
being hurt or sick better life
 Fear of Oliver is  Oliver was knowing
becoming a about his true
criminal identity and his
family’s background
 Saving other thieves
indirectly

4. Nancy
Desire/ Fear Main Action Result & Impact
 Desire  She helps Oliver  Result
 To protect Oliver from Getting hurt  She sacrifices her
from Fagin by Sikes and Fagin own life in order to
 To protect Mr.  She plays an protect Oliver.
Sikes from being important role in
caught the story because
 He cares for Mr. she was the one
Sikes and looks who is revealing
after him when he the plot between
was sick Monk and Fagin to
 She loves Bill save Oliver
Sikes even though
he treats her
cruelty
 Fear  Impact
  Fear of Oliver  Losing her own
getting hurt life
 Fear of she was  She made her
finding out by Gang group
Fagin for revealing became remained.
the conversation of That why’s Bill
Fagin between Sikes was arrested
Monk to Rose and for committing a
Mr. Brownlow crime and then he
died while
dangling from a
building by a rope
around his body
because he
attempts to swing
to another building
to escape the mob
then he got shot by
police officer.

5. Fagin
Desire& Fear Main action Result & Impact
 Desire  He trains Oliver  Results
 He wants to get and the homeless  He was died by
money by using boy how to be a rope hung for
orphaned children pickpocket and committed the
to be a pickpocket then fence their crime.
 He wants to get stolen foods.
Oliver in his clutch  He convinces Bill
because he gets Sikes to kill Nancy
money from  He abused those
Monks to turn homeless boys
Oliver into a who join in his
criminal group
  Impact
 Fear  Make innocent
 He might be children become
arrested because criminals and destroy
Nancy reveals the their future
secret to Mr.  Proving more
Brownlow and security in the society
Rose  He might get
 His fear about betrayed and arrested
Oliver would tell by police in case
the judges in the members of his gang
courtroom about report to the police
his gangs. about his business.

6. Monks
Desire/ Fear Main action Result& Impact
 Desire  He pays Fagin to turn  Result
 He wants to get the Oliver into a criminal  Everything was
full family then he can get full of revealed.
inheritance that half inheritance.  The half the
of the family’s remaining money
inheritance supposed from the will was
to share with Oliver given to Monks and
 Trying to fake the the other half to
Oliver’s true identity Oliver.
 He wants Fagin to  He went off with his
turn Oliver in to money to the other
criminal side of the world,
where he spent it
quickly and was soon
in prison for another
act of fraud. Then he
became ill and died
in prison.
 Impact
 Fear  Oliver’s living in
 Afraid of others bad condition and
knew his plan he suffered alone
 Fear of Mr.  He was treated
Brownlow finding badly from the
out the inheritance people around
will of his father him expect Mr.
Brownlow and
Nancy who
willing to help
him