OVERVIEW 

Looking at all of the differences between the novels, it is obvious that Sarah Waters’ novel is an adaptation of Dickens’ Oliver Twist. While the authors led very different lives, their books are incredibly similar. Although they differ in the way they present some themes, they still share these themes. This is exactly why Fingersmith is a fairly faithful adaptation of Oliver Twist, it takes themes that seem to be downplayed, such as language, gender and sexuality, and amplifies them to make them more evident to the reader and more important to the general context of the book. Though the novels seem to be very different, Waters is just showing the Victorian world through a different point of view. The similarities between the two novels make it even more apparent that Fingersmith is an adaptation of Oliver Twist. Both novels are based on central themes that appear throughout the entire novel. Themes such as the upbringing of the characters, identity, and deceit are what make the novels so similar and easy to compare to each other. For all these reasons, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters is an excellent adaptation of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

Miyata, Masanori. "Types of Linguistic Deviation in Oliver Twist". <http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/dickens/archive/ot/ot-miyata.pdf>.