Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner

Will Eisner had good intentions. In his graphic fresh Fagin the Jew, Eisner attempts to carry through the Oliver number reference point of Fagin, the freebooter lord by husking away harmful Judaic stereotypes and injecting backstory and positive character traits. However, on his path of rescuing this character from the prejudices of the age period, Eisner manages to create a reinvigorated character altogether. Eisner accomplishes this through changing Fagins personality, graphically portrait Fagin different than how he is described, and by altering actual events in Oliver Twist. These artistic choices add up to a character that is wholly different than the iodin we stupefy in Oliver Twist. Eisner leaves us with a character that resembles the Fagin we know in name alone.\nIn Oliver Twist Fagin is a character that daimon first characterizes only by his Jewish ethnicity (Dickens 63). However, throughout the novel Fagin manages to overcome simply beingness The Jew and evo lves into an effective, memorable and well-rounded villain. In Oliver Twist Fagin is presented as having a selfish personality and someone who always remains one step ahead of everyone else. He is willing to lie, cheat, steal and backstab to fix his continued prosperity and emancipation from the cells of Newgate prison. For pattern, in a insure of passion he announces to Nancy that he with six words spate strangle Sikes (Dickens 201). These character traits grow Fagin one of the more episodic characters in the novel and a character whose fate I was increasingly interested in throughout Oliver Twist. In Fagin the Jew Eisner replaces this selfish nature with an altruistic lean that is completely incongruous to the sure Fagin. In Fagin the Jew Fagin becomes a character is who acted upon and reacts to situations, rather than being the wight master behind the scenes. An example of this change can be seen when Oliver is selected to accompany Sikes on the robbery of the Mayl.. .