The Artful Dodger Oliver Fix «Edge NEWEST»

Moreover, the Dodger challenges the modern reader’s sense of justice. Should a 12-year-old thief be transported across the world? Dickens says no, which is why he makes the Dodger heroic in his defiance. We cheer when the Dodger insults the judge, even though we know he is guilty.

In the sprawling, fog-drenched landscape of Victorian London, few literary partnerships are as iconic or as contradictory as that of the innocent orphan Oliver Twist and the seasoned street urchin, Jack Dawkins—better known to the world as The Artful Dodger. While Charles Dickens’ 1838 novel is ostensibly a social critique of the Poor Laws and a plea for the treatment of the destitute, it is the electric chemistry between these two boys that gives the story its enduring heart. The Artful Dodger Oliver