【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 cheming and plotting away ,every hour that I’ve laid shivering and burning here。 and Bill was to do this 。 and Bill was to do that ,and Bill was to do it all, dirt cheap ,as soon as he got well 。and was quite poor enough for your work.”[5](p120) Sikes understands they have not any value in Fagin‘s eyes. Sikes, Nancy and other children who services for Fagin, if they cannot do things for him, they are nothing to him. They are only tools serving for Fagin. When Nancy is about to get money from Fagin, she es across Monks. Nancy follows them and overhears their conversation. Fagin notice that Nancy‘s face is so pale. Nancy pretends to be alarmed and Fagin does not ask any more about this. Maybe Fagin begin to distrust what the girl says, because he takes so much notice on her from then on. On the night, Nancy tries to leave for London Bridge. Fagin is visiting Sikes, Both Fagin and Sikes notice Nancy is very uneasy. When Fagin departs, he asks that Nancy conduct him downstairs .He whispers to her he will help her leave the brute Sikes if she wants. He hopes to persuade to murder Sikes and bring her new love into his gang. Fagin always make every chance to know others‘ information. Thereby he can solidify his control over her. Fagin sends Noah to watch Nancy and knows the details of her meeting with Rose and Mr. Brownlow. Fagin and Noah relate the details of Nancy‘s trip. Fagin purposely does not tell Sikes that Nancy insisted that her associates not get into trouble. In a rage, Sikes rushes home and beats Nancy to death while she begs for mercy. The Attitude to Sikes in Different Time When Nancy and Sikes drag Oliver to Fagin‘s den, they see some people are hung on gallows. Nancy says to Sikes, “I wouldn’t hurry by, if it was you that was ing out to be hung, the next time eight o’clock struck, Bill, I’d walk round and round the place till I dropped, if the snow was on the ground , and I hadn’t a shawl to cover me,” “And what good would that do? ” inquired the unsentimental Mr. Sikes.[6](P96) It is Nancy‘s loyalty to Sikes, but Sikes does not care about it at all. When Sikes falls ill with a fever, Nancy still takes good care of him despite his irritable manner. “Such a number of night ,”said the girl with a touch of woman’s tenderness ,which municated something like sweetness of tone ,even to her voice ?！痵uch 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 significance. In much of Oliver Twist, morality and nobility are blackandwhite issues, but Nancy‘s character suggests that the boundary between virtue and vice is not always clearly drawn. 2 The Reason of Nancy’s Double Character England in the 1830s was rapidly undergoing a transformation from an agricultural, rural economy to an urban, industrial nation. In the extremely stratified English class structure, the highest social class belonged to the ―gentleman,‖ an aristocrat who did not have to work for his living. The growing middle class had achieved an economic influence equal to, if not greater than, that of the British aristocracy. Many members of the middle class were anxious to be differentiated from the lower classes, and one way to do so was to stigmatize the lower class as lazy goodfor –nothings. Victorian society interpreted economic su