Why did police hang the boy in the story Fagin told Oliver?
In Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" (2005), in the morning when Fagin has brought Oliver breakfast to the bedroom he locked him in for the night he tells Oliver that he caused him and the other boys great anxiety and he tells a short story.
The story is about a lad he once had and he eventually ran away and went to the police and when Fagin asks Oliver "Can you guess how he ended up?"
Fagin says "They hanged him. You don't have to be guilty you see. They hang you for anything these days that because they're so very fond of hanging".
But why would they hang him if he did nothing wrong?
Was it like that back in the 19th Century?
Best Answer
Your parents never told you that if you won't behave bad man will come and take you? Or that people will give you drugs for free to get you hooked on them? Or other stories that you later discovered were lie told to you just so you would behave?
In Oliver Twist Fagin is the bad man. And only thing worst than him, that can make him "good" in comparison is death. He's basically guilt tripping Olivier into:
A) feeling bad that he caused other people problems when they wanted to help him
B) other people will harm him and Fagin is only one who can help him.
It's "How to be Manipulative Exploiter 101"
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