| Summary: | Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a novel which is analysed in
this research. The novel consists of the author�s negative view towards
Jews through one of characters named Fagin. The author keep giving bad
image towards a Jewish character in the novel as an evil or villainous
character. The bad description about the Jew not only on his performance,
but also on his words, behavior, and his place.
The purpose of this research is to determine world vision of the
author�s social class in Oliver Twist by using theory of genetic
structuralism from Lucien Goldmann. Having analysed the structure of
the novel and the structure of social structure of English society in
nineteenth century, the result of this research shows that there is coherence
between them in relation with negative description towards Jews.
The structure of Oliver Twist consists of binary oppositions which
come to one center opposition, harmony and disharmony. The cathegory
of characters in the novel consisits of characters who represent God,
cahracters who represent the world, and characters who represent human.
The characters who represent human must choose between God and the
world, or take both of them at once. Based on cathegorization of characters
which is analized, there is different attitude towards Jewish character and
non-Jewish characters by the author. The discriminative attitude shows
that there is an influence of antisemitism world vision on the author.
The negative desciption toward Jews character in Oliver Twist has
proved that there is antisemitism world vision as representation of the
social class� world vision of the author, Charles Dickens, who come from
middle class of English society in the nineteenth century.
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