David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
"David Copperfield" charts a little boy's wretched childhood and his progress to a successful novelist and his finding true love along the way. The author made a romantic effort to be realistic and thus captured the essence of all parts of human life in the pages of this book. David Copperfield is the main character of the novel, but he is not the hero of the novel.
David, a fatherless child born in a little village in Victorian
England is deeply attached to his mother and his nurse Peggotty. His world turns upside down when his mother marries a man by the name of
Murdstone. The pain that his stepfather and his "murdering woman of a sister" inflict upon David leads to his untimely loss of …show more content…
From that instance onwards, the barbaric schooling of Salem House is replaced by the kind instruction of Mr. Wickfield and Dr. Strong, and the cruel neglect of his stepfather is replaced by the love and care of his aunt. After his schooling, he moves to London to become a proctor. However, David's professional accomplishments are of less importance as compared to his emotional attachments to James
Steerforth and Dora Spenlow. Both relationships are portrayed as the
"mistaken impulses of an undisciplined heart." Copperfield confesses that he "loved Dora to idolatry" and later gets married to her. Dora's death in labour leaves the protagonist in a state of deep gloom and he travels to Europe to search for his answers to the bitter realities of life. The protagonist's relationship to Steerforth is also characterized by idolatry. David unwittingly assists Steerforth in the seduction of Little Em'ly away from her uncle.
Dickens captures the whole art of growing up in the pages of this book and the essential experiences of life we have all undergone, such as infatuation, loss of a beloved, and friendship. Dickens also addresses several important social evils of his time: the problem of prostitution in nineteenth-century London, discrimination against women, need for humane treatment of the insane, and the exploitation of the poor by the wealthy. Against these dilemmas, Dickens provides the intuitive wisdom of Mr. Dick, the selflessness of
"David Copperfield" charts a little boy's wretched childhood and his progress to a successful novelist and his finding true love along the way. The author made a romantic effort to be realistic and thus captured the essence of all parts of human life in the pages of this book. David Copperfield is the main character of the novel, but he is not the hero of the novel.
David, a fatherless child born in a little village in Victorian
England is deeply attached to his mother and his nurse Peggotty. His world turns upside down when his mother marries a man by the name of
Murdstone. The pain that his stepfather and his "murdering woman of a sister" inflict upon David leads to his untimely loss of …show more content…
From that instance onwards, the barbaric schooling of Salem House is replaced by the kind instruction of Mr. Wickfield and Dr. Strong, and the cruel neglect of his stepfather is replaced by the love and care of his aunt. After his schooling, he moves to London to become a proctor. However, David's professional accomplishments are of less importance as compared to his emotional attachments to James
Steerforth and Dora Spenlow. Both relationships are portrayed as the
"mistaken impulses of an undisciplined heart." Copperfield confesses that he "loved Dora to idolatry" and later gets married to her. Dora's death in labour leaves the protagonist in a state of deep gloom and he travels to Europe to search for his answers to the bitter realities of life. The protagonist's relationship to Steerforth is also characterized by idolatry. David unwittingly assists Steerforth in the seduction of Little Em'ly away from her uncle.
Dickens captures the whole art of growing up in the pages of this book and the essential experiences of life we have all undergone, such as infatuation, loss of a beloved, and friendship. Dickens also addresses several important social evils of his time: the problem of prostitution in nineteenth-century London, discrimination against women, need for humane treatment of the insane, and the exploitation of the poor by the wealthy. Against these dilemmas, Dickens provides the intuitive wisdom of Mr. Dick, the selflessness of