【正文】 ays all kinds of characters in London, especially those who live in underworld, such as Oliver Twist, Fagin, Bill Sikes, the Artful Doger and Nancy. A major concern of Oliver Twist is the question of whether or not a bad environment can irrevocably poison someone‘s character and soul. As the novel progresses, the character who best illustrates the contradictory issues brought up by that question is Nancy. As a child of streets, Nancy has been a thief and drinks to excess. The narrator‘s reference to her ―free and agreeable…manners‖ indicates that she is a prostitute. She is immersed in the vices condemned by her society, but she also mits perhaps the most notable act in the novel when she sacrifices her own life in order to protect Oliver. Nancy has a double character, with ―soul of goodness in things of evil.‖ Nancy‘s moral plexity is unique among the major characters in Oliver Twist. The novel is full of characters who are all good and can barely prehend evil, such as Oliver, Rose, And Brownlow, and characters who are all evil and barely prehend good, such as Fagin, Sikes, and Monks. Only Nancy prehends and is capable of both good and evil. Her ultimate choice to do good at a great personal cost is a strong argument in favor of the incorruptibility of basic goodness, no matter how many environmental obstacles it may face. She is a good girl, though she grows up in a evil world. There are many researches on Oliver Twist, this poor little boy. This paper is mainly concerned on Nancy. Oliver does not know anything of evil, and he speaks standardized English, though he grows up in a disguised kind society. Comparing with Oliver Twist, Nancy is true. Nancy is different, and she prehends virtue and evil. By concrete description, it reflects the darkness of that society and the plexity of human nature. 1 Nancy’s Double Character Acts in Oliver Twist When Oliver sees Nancy at the first sight, he sees Nancy ―wore a good deal of hair, full of curlpapers in, not very neatly turned up behind。 學(xué)科分類號 0502 本科學(xué)生畢業(yè)論文 題 目 （ 中文） ： 一朵開在冬天的花 — 剖析《霧都孤兒》中南希的雙重性格 （英文）： A Flower Blossoming in Winter — Expounding the Double Character of Nancy in Oliver Twist Contents 摘要 ………………………………………………………………….… .Ⅰ Abstract ………… …………………………………………….… .…… Ⅱ Introduction ……………… … …………………………………… .…… 1 1. Nancy’s Double Character Acts in Oliver Twist………………...… ..4 The Attitude to Oliver in Different Time……………………….… 4 The Attitude to Fagin in Different Time....…………………… .… .6 The Attitude to Sikes in Different Time ……………… .… ...…… ..9 2. The Reason of Nancy’s Double Character……… .……… ..… .........13 Environment‘s Influence to Nancy‘s Double Character..… ..13 Human Nature‘s Influence to Her Double Character… ..……… ....17 3. Nancy’s Incorruptibility of Goodness in Double Character…… ....20 Nancy‘s Resistance to Crime ……… . …………………… ..…… ..20 Nancy‘s Love to Oliver……………… ......................................… ..22 Conclusion………………………………………… … …………… .… ....25 Notes……………………………… ..………………………… ……… .....27 Bibliography……………………………………………………… ..… ....28 Acknowledgements 摘 要 《霧都孤兒》是查爾斯 human nature。’such a number of nights as I’ve been patient with you, nursing and caring for you, as if you had been a child……” [7](P245) It is a woman‘s love expression to a man, although the man is such a vicious person. In her pitiful life, she cannot find any other fort besides giving her broken heart to a man and being loyal to him. As a woman, love is highest spiritual support. Where Nancy lives determines who loves .In her world she has not choice besides being loyal to a man in her way. In other‘s eyes, it is unreasonable. In the meeting with Rose, Nancy refuses Rose‘s help her escape her from her criminal life. Rose can not understand and asks Nancy,. “…. What fascination is that can take you back, and make you cling to wickedness and misery?” The girl replied, “… set our rotten hearts on any man, and let him fill the place that has been a blank through all our wretched lives, who can hope to cure us? Pity us, lady pity us for having only one feeling of the woman left and having that turned, by a heavy judgment, from a fort and a pride into a new means of violence and suffering. ” [8](P259) Sikes and Nancy, the first letter of their name are ?S‘ and ?N‘, they stand for the two poles of the earth, implying two different characters, but they cannot live without each other. Nancy refuses Mr. Brownlow and Rose‘s help, but she says that she is chained to her criminal life. Nancy is passionate and intelligent, While Sikes is a brutal professional burglar brought up in Fagin‘s gang .He treats Nancy with an odd bination of cruelty and grudging familiarity .His murder of Nancy is the most heinous of many crime that occur in the novel. After murdering Nancy, Sikes flees London, only to find that his conscience will not let him escape. The entire account of Sikes‘s flight is also among the most psychologically sophisticated passages in the novel. Up until this point, Sikes has been a pure villain .In his guilt, however, he bees realistically human. Pursued by his guilty conscience and an angry mob, he inadvertently hangs himself while trying to escape. Nancy‘s love for Sikes exemplifies the moral ambiguity of her character. As she herself points out to Rose, devotion to a man can be ―a fort and a pride ―under the right circumstances But for Nancy, such devotion is ―a new means of violence and suffering‖indeed, her relationship with Sikes leads her to criminal acts for his sake and eventually to her own demise .The same behavior, in different circumstances, can have very different consequences and moral signif