In which Dickens' novel do the characters Aunt Rose, Charley Bates and Toby Crackit appear?
Charley Bates is possible for even the most degraded characters. Lord Acton considered the portrayal of Charley and Nancy to indicate that "Oliver Twist" was a much more profound work than Dickens' earlier novel "The Pickwick Papers". He wrote that "Nancy's refusal to be delivered from Sikes after her love for the child had brought her a chance of redemption and Charley Bates turning against the murderer are surely in a higher style than anything in Pickwick". It was Dickens' friend John Forster who persuaded him to show Charley finally escaping a life of crime. Charley Bates Charley Bates is a supporting
Charley Bates in the 1948 David Lean film. Charley is regularly referred to as "Master Bates". Whether this is an intentional pun on "masturbates" is disputed. The word existed at the time, derived from the Latin verb "masturbari", but it was relatively obscure, and it is not recorded as a verb until 1857, 19 years after the novel was published. Edward Le Comte considered it to be a Freudian slip. John Sutherland considered it to be too puerile, a "schoolboy joke", to be intentional, since Dickens' use of names is generally much more sophisticated. Like Nancy, Charley represents the idea that redemption