Motif: Haunting Eyes

From Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Eyes--especially Nancy's after her murder--become a relentless motif of conscience and surveillance pursuing Sikes to his death.
Chapter 48

Sikes flees the murder scene but cannot escape the image of Nancy's upturned eyes.

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Chapter 50

On the rooftop, Sikes cries 'The eyes again!' and falls to his death.

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