Oliver Twist: Desire and fear

1. Mrs. Mann (The baby farm manager)

Desire/Fear Main Action Result &impact
 Desire:  Result:
 Greedy: she kept for her  She can get more
own use the money that money to fulfill
she was given for the her needs in her
children’s food. living.
 Abuse: she pretends to  Impact:
care for the children in  The children
the workhouse, but in didn’t have much
actual fact bullies, food to eat or
abuses, and mistreats much clothing
them. She didn’t show  Children live with
any affection or look starvation and
after the baby. lack of 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
 Desire
 He wants to gain attention
when he lived in Mr.
Sowerberry’s house
 He wants to destroy
Oliver’s life because he
jealous of Oliver
Main action Result& Impact
 He bullied Oliver by  Result
mocking him  He becomes an
 He stole the wealth important witness for
from Mr. Sowerberry the police to arrest
 He joins the Gang of Fagin.
Fagin  He got a free pardon
for telling 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 not
attention or admiration take people who
from Mr. Sowerberry were a criminal to
 He has fear of being a work in their
criminal because he was department
caught in the crime  People who did
something wrong
should get
punishment

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

4. Nancy
Desire/ Fear Main Action Result & Impact
 Desire  She helps Oliver from  Result
 To protect Oliver Getting hurt by Sikes  She sacrifices her own
from Fagin and Fagin life in order to protect
 To protect Mr. Sikes  She plays an Oliver.
from being caught important role in the
 He cares for Mr. Sikes story because she was
and looks after him the one who is
when he was sick revealing the plot
 She loves Bill Sikes between Monk and
even though he treats Fagin to save Oliver
her cruelty
 Fear  Impact
 Fear of Oliver getting  Losing her own life
hurt  She made her Gang
 Fear of she was group became
finding out by Fagin remained. That why’s
for revealing the Bill Sikes was
conversation of Fagin arrested for
between Monk to committing a crime
Rose and Mr. and then he died while
Brownlow 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 and  Results
 He wants to get the homeless boy how  He was died by rope
money by using to be a pickpocket and hung for committed
orphaned children to then fence their stolen the crime.
be a pickpocket foods.
 He wants to get Oliver  He convinces Bill
in his clutch because Sikes to kill Nancy
he gets money from  He abused those
Monks to turn Oliver homeless boys who
into a criminal join in his group
 Impact
 Fear  Make innocent children
 He might be arrested become criminals and
because Nancy destroy their future
reveals the secret to  Proving more security in
Mr. Brownlow and the society
Rose  He might get betrayed
 His fear about Oliver and arrested by police in
would tell the judges case members of his
in the courtroom gang report to the police
about 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 full Oliver into a criminal  Everything was revealed.
 family inheritance that then he can get full of  The half the remaining
half of the family’s inheritance. money from the will was
inheritance supposed to given to Monks and the
share with Oliver other half to Oliver.
 Trying to fake the  He went off with his
Oliver’s true identity money to the other side
 He wants Fagin to turn of the world, where he
Oliver in to criminal 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 bad
 Afraid of others knew condition and he
his plan suffered alone
 Fear of Mr. Brownlow  He was treated badly
finding out the from the people
inheritance will of his around him expect
father Mr. Brownlow and
Nancy who willing to
help him