The Analysis of Nicholas Nickleby Novel

Nicholas Nickleby

By Charles Dickens

Character
1.Nicholas Nickleby : Protagonist figure. He is the main character in this story. He is timid and quiet person. He also has strong mind and willingness. He loves to help the others. He is the son of Nicholas Nickleby senior.
2.Nicholas Nickleby senior: Protagonist figure. He is father of Nicholas Nickleby.
3.Ralph Nickleby : Antagonist figure. He is greedy and ambitious person. He is the brother of Nicholas Nickleby senior and the uncle of Nicholas Nickleby.
4.Mrs. Nickleby : Protagonist figure. She is kind and patient woman. Se is the wife of Nicholas Nickleby senior and the mother of Nicholas Nickleby.
5.Kate Nickleby : Protagonist figure. She is the girl with strong willingness. The sister of Nicholas Nickleby.
6.Mr. and Mrs. Squeers : Antagonist figures. They are greedy and cruel people. They are the partner of Ralph Nickleby.
7.Smike : Protagonist figure. He is kind of weak and full of frighten feeling person. He is friend of Nicholas Nickleby.
8.The cheerybles : Protagonist figures. They are kind and generous people. They like to help the others. They are bosses of Nicholas Nickleby.
9.Newman Noggs : Protagonist figure. He is quiet and honest person. He is the clerk of Ralph Nickleby.
10.Arthur Gride : Antagonist figure. He is greedy and careless man. He is the old friend of Ralph Nickleby.
11.Madeline Bray : Protagonist figure. Smart and kind girl. Wife of Nicholas Nickleby.

Plot
It has up and down plot. The problem has started in the beginning and in the middle.

The story started from poor Mr. Godfrey Nickleby . Then he had received the inheritance from his rich uncle. Mr. Godfrey Nickleby married and had two sons. They were young Nicholas Nickleby senior and the elder Ralph Nickleby. When Mr. Godfrey Nickleby dead, the elder Ralph Nickleby went to town of London and left his brother Nicholas Nickleby senior. While Ralph Nickleby worked as a merchant, Nicholas Nickleby senior lived in quiet and peaceful village as the farmer of his own farm. The Nicholas Nickleby senior merried and had a son named Nicholas Nickleby and a daughter named Kate Nickleby. Life was going difficult when Nicholas Nickleby senior dead. By death of Nicholas Nickleby senior, Mrs. Nickleby and her children asked generous Ralph Nickleby to help them getting out from their poverty. Ralph Nickleby gave Nicholas the job as a headmaster’s assistant in out of London. It didn’t take long time for Nicholas to leave his mother and sister. Nicholas worked for Mr. squeers who was the headmaster of the school for poor children. Mr. and Mrs. Squeers were really cruel in facing the boys at school. Nicholas couldn’t stand with the situation at the school, so he decided to fight Mr. Squeers and came back to London. He also brought the boy whose name was Smike. He was so pity boy, and he always had been kicked by Mr. Squeers. The Uncle Ralph Nickleby heard this story and got very angry to Nicholas and his family. By the time, Nicholas tried looking for job in London. Fortunately, he met with the cheerybles who employed him as the merchant in their office. Nicholas’s life was getting better.
On the other side, Ralph Nickleby was still want to give revenge to Nicholas. Ralph and Mr. Squeers tried to capture Smike, but it useless. Then Mr. Squeers was jailed because his crime in the cheerybles’ office. At last, the Mr.Squeers’ school was dispersed, and the children were able to run away.
Ralph Nickleby partnered with Arthur Gride to take Madeline Bray as Arthur’s wife. Madeline’s father was in debt to Arthur. Then Nicholas tried to safe Madeline and brought her to his house. One day, Smike was ill so much and finally he dead.
The truth was discovered by coming the ex of Ralph’s clerk. He told to Ralph that Ralph’s son didn’t die in past time. This clerk had brought Ralph son to the Squeers School because this clerk hated Ralph so much. Then Ralph realized that Smike was his own son. He felt upset and decided to hang himself in his house. Nicholas was sad and felt pity with his uncle’s death. Finally, Nicholas married to Madeline and they had happy life together with the whole of friends and family.

Message
We as the social human should not judge someone by its appearance. Then we also don’t allow humiliating others who have low status or poor people.
We should trust that there is a will there is a way.