{"id":454,"date":"2020-09-06T20:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/?p=454"},"modified":"2020-09-06T20:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T20:49:03","slug":"woman-pure-and-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/2020\/09\/06\/woman-pure-and-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Women: pure and evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Charles Dickens\u2019 classic mid-nineteenth century novel,<\/span> there are few characters who show they are kindhearted and have good intentions. The character who embodies this the most is a young woman named <\/span>Rose. She is <\/span>a <\/span>sweet \u201cgirl next door\u201d. As her name hints, she is fem<\/span>inine and beautiful like a flower. Roses symbolize love, and the young woman Rose certainly infiltrates love into this crime ridden storyline.<\/span> There is another young woman, Nancy, who is affiliated with Fagin\u2019s gang and lives her life on the streets trying to<\/span> keep herself alive.<\/span> To Rose, Oliver is an innocent young boy who needs more guidance in his life. Per request of the gan<\/span>g, Nancy kidnaps Oliver. Rose wants nothing but to help other people, <\/span>Oliver in particula<\/span>r, and<\/span> Nancy is interjecting herself into his life and causing havoc<\/span>. To the audience, Rose is portrayed as this <\/span>ultra-feminine<\/span> woman whereas Nancy<\/span> does not even recognize herself as human, let alone feminine.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nancy goes to speak with Rose to inform her that she was the one who kidnapped Oliver. She tells Rose, <\/span>\u201c<\/span>I am<\/span> the infamous creature <\/span>you have <\/span>heard of, that lives among the thieves<\/span>… so help me God! Do not mind shrinking openly from me, lady.<\/span> I am younger than you would think, to look at me, but I am well used to it. The poorest woman <\/span>fall<\/span> back, as I make my way long the crowded pavement\u201d (Dickens 226).<\/span> This entire passage is Nancy degrading herself as not just a woman but from humanity, and she is having this conversation<\/span> with the very entrancing and womanly Rose.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nancy identifies herself as a \u201ccreature\u201d, an entity that is worse than the \u201cthieves\u201d she lives with and she does not f<\/span>it in with <\/span>even the poorest people on the streets.<\/span> She is a woman, but she is also worse than the other people on the Earth. Labeling herself<\/span> as \u201cinfamous\u201d expresses that <\/span>her\u00a0<\/span>unpleasant <\/span>qualities<\/span> are everlasting. Being eternal and<\/span> a monster are qualities typically describing and evil entity. Nancy is deceptive<\/span>, she is older than she looks. <\/span>In actuality, this<\/span> is likely due to her impoverished lifestyle, but<\/span>\u00a0she is \u201cnot what she seems\u201d nonetheless. Deceiving others is a trait the devil often uses.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rose, on the other hand, is the opposite of Nancy. Although they are both women, Nancy calls Rose \u201clady\u201d, a title she does not give herself.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>They are the same, but they are also not, as Nancy would not be offended if Rose visibly showed her disturbance of Nancy\u2019s presence.\u00a0<\/span>Nancy also cries out \u201cso help me God!\u201d in a time that Rose tries to lend a helping hand.<\/span>\u00a0Rose is portrayed as angelic and feminine. A woman with good energy who wishes to assist others in fixing their problems.<\/span>\u00a0This scene stands out in the plot because it is an intimate interaction with two women: one pure and one evil.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Charles Dickens\u2019 classic mid-nineteenth century novel, there are few characters who show they are kindhearted and have good intentions. The character who embodies this the most is a young woman named Rose. She is a sweet \u201cgirl next door\u201d. As her name hints, she is feminine and beautiful like a flower. Roses symbolize love, … Continue reading Women: pure and evil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138877],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}