Question

Based on your reading of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, match the character traits to the characters who exhibit them.

Answer 1

Answer:

Oliver Twist - innocent, good- hearted, cheerful.

Charlotte the maid - devoted, biased.

Noah Claypole - cowardly, dishonest, malicious.

Explanation:

Charles Dickens' famous children novel "Oliver Twist" centers around the character of Oliver Twist, an orphaned boy. It covers his childhood years, born in a workhouse and then apprenticed to an undertaker from a very young age.

The character traits of the three characters given in the question are-

Oliver Twist, though an orphan, was a cheerful, good- hearted and innocent child.

Charlotte the maid was biased but deeply devoted to her lover Noah Claypole.

Noah Claypole was a very dishonest, cowardly and malicious man who bullied Oliver.

Answer 2

Answer:

• Oliver Twist: innocent, good-hearted
• Charlotte the maid: biased, devoted
• Noah Claypole: cowardly, malicous, dishonest

Explanation:

Oliver Twist is a novel by Charles Dickens that chronicles the adventures and misadventures of an orphaned boy. It is one of the novels where the author deals with the phenomenon of delinquency provoked by the precarious conditions of English society of the time. It was the first English novel starring a child and is considered a masterpiece of English literature.