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The Beggar’s Opera · Character

Filch

A young pickpocket in Peachum's employ.

minor

Also known as Filch Betty

First appearance: act i

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BMBlack MollPPPolly PeachumBDBetty DoxyFIFilch

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupEscalationClimax
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  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Closing

Macheath’s psychological peak is his oscillation between defiant bravado (drinking to scorn death) and abject…

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See Filch in act i