Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner

Will Eisner had proficient intentions. In his graphic fiction Fagin the Jew, Eisner attempts to redeem the Oliver Twist guinea pig of Fagin, the thief lord by stripping away harmful Jewish stereotypes and injecting backstory and positive contribution traits. However, on his path of rescuing this reference from the prejudices of the time period, Eisner manages to create a new part altogether. Eisner accomplishes this by means of changing Fagins personality, graphically depicting Fagin different than how he is described, and by altering existing events in Oliver Twist. These artistic choices bestow up to a use that is completely different than the one(a) we find in Oliver Twist. Eisner leaves us with a temper that resembles the Fagin we endure in name alone.\nIn Oliver Twist Fagin is a character that Dickens first characterizes barely by his Jewish ethnicity (Dickens 63). However, passim the impudent Fagin manages to overcome scarce be The Jew and evolves into an eff ective, memorable and all-round(prenominal) villain. In Oliver Twist Fagin is presented as having a selfish personality and someone who always be one step frontward of everyone else. He is willing to lie, cheat, bargain and backstab to assure his continued prosperity and freedom from the cells of Newgate prison. For example, in a fit of passion he announces to Nancy that he with six actors line preserve strangle Sikes (Dickens 201). These character traits make Fagin one of the to a greater extent unpredictable characters in the novel and a character whose sight I was increasingly fire in throughout Oliver Twist. In Fagin the Jew Eisner replaces this self-serving nature with an selfless disposition that is completely conflicting to the original Fagin. In Fagin the Jew Fagin becomes a character is who acted upon and reacts to situations, rather than being the puppet master butt end the scenes. An example of this change can be seen when Oliver is selected to accompany Sikes on the robbery of the Mayl...