Significance of Water

I've noticed that there appears to be a lot of significant events happening near the water in Oliver Twist. There was the final chase of Sikes in a neighborhood surrounded by the Thames River. At the time of the scene, the Thames river just so happened to have its tide out making the Jacobs island to be surrounded by mud. The mud acts as a sticky medium from the water and the land. This represents the significance of Sikes and how his life is already at the medium or middle point. He has been hunted down for a long time of his life that it seems that hes already become halfway dead. Nancy also meets Rose at the London Bridge which holds a lot of significance because Rose offers Nancy a place to stay and live away from her life of crime. Her offering symbolizes as a bridge for Nancy to crossover to reach to a life similar to Rose and away from her past life of crime. At the beginning Agnes also threw her locket and ring in the river. The river acts kind-of like a halfway point between two areas of land. Agnes herself was at a halfway point in her life being pregnant but not married meant that she was kind-of married but technically also not married. Her ring also only had her first name giving only half of her entire identity.