Fagin in the BBC's new serial "Oliver Twist".....?!
Question: Why does Fagin escape in this series, when in Dickens's classic tale, Fagin was caught and hanged for his crimes?
Also, was Dickens's portayal of Fagin as the "archetypal Jewish villain" in any way anti-semitic?
Answers: Why does Fagin escape in this series, when in Dickens's classic tale, Fagin was caught and hanged for his crimes?
Also, was Dickens's portayal of Fagin as the "archetypal Jewish villain" in any way anti-semitic?
Yes, it was anti-semetic. Dickens was portraying the general feeling of the time.
I am not saying he was right to do so, but historically it is accurate.
you mean Bill Sykes Fagin did hang in the bbc.s adaptation
Bill Sykes went down the sewers
bill Sykes did hang in the BBC adaptation he hung himself and Fagin was caught and hung it showed him on the gallows.