Fagin represents a time in London that was corrupt, disorganized, and old. Dickens emphasizes the old London in Fagin by connecting him to the streets, he states, “The mud lay thick upon the stones, and a black mist hung over the streets; the rain fell sluggishly down, and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch. It seemed just the night when it befitted such a being as the Jew to be abroad. As he glided steadily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in slime and darkness through which he moved, crawling forth by night in search of some rich offal for a meal” (153). Just like Saffron Hill, Whitechapel is described as an area of darkness and filth.
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Andrzej Diniejko describes Whitechapel in his article “Slums and Slumming in Late-Victorian London” as an area that was prosperous at the end of the seventeenth century but changed into an area of crime in the middle of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century. This change was caused by an influx of working immigrants which Diniejko lists as people of extreme poverty such as Irish, Central and Eastern European, Russian, Polish, German, and
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Andrzej Diniejko describes Whitechapel in his article “Slums and Slumming in Late-Victorian London” as an area that was prosperous at the end of the seventeenth century but changed into an area of crime in the middle of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century. This change was caused by an influx of working immigrants which Diniejko lists as people of extreme poverty such as Irish, Central and Eastern European, Russian, Polish, German, and