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David Copperfield ist ein US-amerikanischer Zauberkünstler. Seit den er Jahren ist er durch zahlreiche TV-Auftritte bekannt geworden. Er gibt jedes Jahr bis zu Live-Shows in aller Welt und hat so viele Tickets wie kein anderer Solokünstler. David Copperfield (geboren am September in Metuchen, New Jersey, als David Seth Kotkin) ist ein US-amerikanischer Zauberkünstler. Seit den. David Copperfield, Originaltitel David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of. David Copperfield steht für: David Copperfield (Roman), Roman aus dem Jahr von Charles Dickens · David Copperfield (), Film aus dem Jahr David Copperfield – Einmal Reichtum und zurück (Originaltitel The Personal History of David Copperfield) ist ein Filmdrama von Armando Iannucci, das im. den Fugen gerät? Wir haben ein Vorbild für Sie: Dev Patel streift in "David Copperfield" frohgemut durch eine Welt, die einem Irrenhaus gleicht. Entdecken Sie David Copperfield und weitere TV-Serien auf DVD- & Blu-ray in unserem vielfältigen Angebot. Gratis Lieferung möglich.

Barkis , Mr. Chillip , David Copperfield , Mr. Horace Crewler , Uriah Heep , Mr. Joram , Mr. Jorkens , Littimer , Jack Maldon , Mr.
Charles Mell , Mr. Mills , Mr. Edward Murdstone , Mr. Quinion , Mr. Francis Spenlow , James Steerforth , Dr. Strong , Mr. Tiffey , Thomas Traddles , Mr.
Wickfield , Mrs. Clara Copperfield , Mrs. Creakle , Miss Creakle , Mrs. Crewler , Mrs. Gummidge , Mrs. Heep , Mrs. Marckleham , Mrs. Steerforth , Mrs.
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How much similarity does the book have with Charles dickens's life? Huda Aweys Of course there are similarities between the life of Charles Dickens and the novel, to some extent, as in all his novels often, but this particular st …more Of course there are similarities between the life of Charles Dickens and the novel, to some extent, as in all his novels often, but this particular story actually the closest resemblance to his life less.
Is it recommended for young adults? Nich I read the book when I was 15 I think. I would recommend it for anyone at any age who is comfortable reading a long dense book because you really need …more I read the book when I was 15 I think.
I would recommend it for anyone at any age who is comfortable reading a long dense book because you really need to stick to it to be able to appreciate it.
There is a lot to enjoy and learn from it, in my opinion, at any age. See all 21 questions about David Copperfield…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews.
Showing Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of David Copperfield. Creakle's guiding hand with laziness and scorn!
Spenlow and his partner are wise to your gambits! Lattimer and poor umble Uriah Heep behind bars! View all comments. Charles Dickens can do no wrong, except perhaps keep around pages of rather irrelevant tangents in this book.
It was such a powerhouse of characterisation and world-building that I barely know where to begin. All of the characters were utterly divine, even the detestable Uriah Heep and the unbelievably pathetic Dora, and most especially the wonderful early Feminist icon that is Betsy Trotwood.
I often have my doubts on first-person narrative, but Dickens is one of the few who can do it so well without losing many of the great advantages of reading with an omnipotent narrator.
David Copperfield is unreliable in many fields-mostly his blind-spot for falling in love-but he is in-tune with his surroundings and can express what he feels other characters around him are feeling so suitably that it matters not that we are seeing the world through his young eyes only.
The world was fantastic: I am always immediately transported to these places when I read 19th Century fiction and this was no exception.
The strife of the poor and the decadence of the indifferent rich is interwoven here like smoke billowing in to pure oxygen. There were so many nooks and crannies to be explored that it took me a while to get through this nigh-on page book, but it was worth it.
Aside from one or two tangents which meant the story-line stalled ever so slightly, it flowed magnificently and I don't remember laughing so much at a book that wasn't a straight humour novel.
Dickens has a way of writing with such endearment about his characters and society, but also tearing them apart at the same time. It was a beautiful ride through the English countryside and a nice run through the heavy streets of London and I don't think Thackeray was wrong when he said, "Bravo Dickens.
View all 7 comments. It was first published as a serial in —50, and as a book in Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens's own life, and it is often considered as his veiled autobiography.
It was Dickens' fa It was Dickens' favourite among his own novels. In the preface to the edition, Dickens wrote, "like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child.
And his name is David Copperfield. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, England, six months after the death of his father.
David spends his early years in relative happiness with his loving, childish mother and their kindly housekeeper, Clara Peggotty.
They call him Davy. When he is seven years old his mother marries Edward Murdstone. To get him out of the way, David is sent to lodge with Peggotty's family in Yarmouth.
Her brother, fisherman Mr Peggotty, lives in a beached barge, with his adopted relatives Emily and Ham, and an elderly widow, Mrs Gummidge.
They call him Master Copperfield. On his return, David is given good reason to dislike his stepfather, who believes exclusively in firmness, and has similar feelings for Murdstone's sister Jane, who moves into the house soon afterwards.
Between them they tyrannize his poor mother, making her and David's lives miserable, and when, in consequence, David falls behind in his studies, Murdstone attempts to thrash him — partly to further pain his mother.
David bites him and soon afterwards is sent away to Salem House, a boarding school, under a ruthless headmaster named Mr Creakle.
There he befriends an older boy, James Steerforth, and Tommy Traddles. He develops an impassioned admiration for Steerforth, perceiving him as someone noble, who could do great things if he would, and one who pays attention to him.
View all 8 comments. Jul 14, Violet wells rated it it was ok Shelves: classics. Because the sentimentality is like a sickly sweet smell on virtually every page of this novel.
Perhaps because of its autobiographical nature he enjoyed writing this a bit too much. When an author gets carried away with the delights of his own story perhaps the inner editor goes into abeyance.
Mr and Miss Murdstone are pantomime baddies, as lacking in subtlety as their name suggests; Peggoty, his nurse, is a paragon of virtue.
Cruelty has no meaningful effect on his character. David is a neutered foolproof moral touchstone. The novel throughout has a pantomime binary moral system.
A character, with one or two exceptions, is either wholly good or wholly bad. So, the first pages were a bit of a struggle for me.
I found Peggoty and the evil Murdstones tiresomely predictable. It was therefore a massive relief when the morally ambiguous Steerforth arrives on the scene.
Finally we sense David might evolve from a potted plastic flower into one rooted in soil and subject to weather. Finally we see his moral judgements are subject to error.
Finally we see the possibility of him being influenced by something other than unadulterated virtue. Unfortunately though Dickens soon repeats the early template of moral absolutes with a new set of characters.
Even as an adult David still seems like a ten year old. No surprise then that he falls in love with a female counterpart — an adult ten year old female.
Before reading this I would have nominated Dorothea and Casaubon in Middlemarch if someone had asked me which couple in the history of literature I found it most difficult to imagine having sex together.
However David and Dora now get that award. In fact, sex, like everything else that happens to him, has no notable effect on his character.
The moral light in this novel is glaring; it hurts the eyes. No surprise then that the unpredictable dark charge of sex is hostile to its regulated lighting system and so ignored.
The sentence writing is consistently brilliant. And as ever Dickens creates his characters with the startled wide-eyed wonder of a child — always they have an almost hallucinated detailed vividness, that larger than life quality, a single oddball defining trait, with which we tend to see grownups as children.
We magnify one detail which comes to represent the person in question. It was probably his most inspired feature, his ability to see the world through the eyes of a child but narrate his findings with the eloquence of an adult.
The surface of this novel reminded me of a gaudy birthday card with embossed pink hearts and ribbons splashed all over it. For me Dickens is the master purveyor of the novel as light entertainment.
But this was more soap opera than novel. View all 94 comments. Jun 07, Dolors rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Absolutely everybody with no exception!
Shelves: best-ever , read-in But is that aspect what I most value of this work? Far from it. Marriage, friendship, betrayal, the multifarious forms of parenthood, and the eternal battle between good and evil are the axes around which the personal growth of naive, almost seraphic-like David will revolve.
As I followed David from boyhood to adulthood and all the tragedies and unexpected gifts life throws on his way, I started to wonder about his real role in the story.
Or is he a mere bystander, a passive witness that chronicles events unfolding around him without taking action in them?
Maybe the real protagonists are the motley array of characters, so rich in description and recognizable for the repetitive idiomatic expressions that identify their eccentricities and foibles that make them unique….
But for this particular reader, David Copperfield goes beyond the realm of literary fiction; he has won a permanent place in my personal journey towards wholeness.
He is a role model to look up to. His observant glance bespeaks of obstinate compassion and blind blindness is not always bad! There is not an ounce of cheap sentimentalism in the numerous pages of this epic tale, but one will find an overdose of tenderness and smart humor that shine with intelligence and soul, that dares to approach life and its archetypical structures from other perspectives, that embraces those who are different as dear life.
The concept of family has drastically expanded and reached a superior level for me. View all 59 comments. Apr 11, Sean Barrs rated it liked it Shelves: classics , 3-star-reads.
David Copperfield is a story about growing up. It is a story about understanding people; it is a story about understanding that our perceptions of people do not always match the reality of that person.
We can idealise them. We can believe in them. We can love them. But that does not necessarily mean they are what we believe them to be or what we want them to be.
In classic Dickensian fashion, this is not a happy story; it is one full of hardship and harsh realisations, but it is also one of growth David Copperfield is a story about growing up.
In classic Dickensian fashion, this is not a happy story; it is one full of hardship and harsh realisations, but it is also one of growth: it is one about the potential of becoming a better and stronger person despite the inherent pain that comes with this thing called life.
We can learn from it. It is a great story, one full of memorable and interesting characters. Some are awkwardly eccentric and some plain villainous.
Here the marvel of Dickens shines through because he can capture people so incredibly well: he is the master of description.
The way he writes brings all the quirks and individualism of his characters to life. There are few writers who can do this so well and with such a vast multitude of subjects.
Each character is unique because the observation skills of his narrators scrutinise and report in such a detailed manner. I cared about David.
I wanted to see the world do him right after his unfortunate early experiences. And the conclusion was everything the story needed to be. But, for me, that is where it all ends.
I do not have anything else positive to say because David Copperfield did not make me think nor did it make me consider anything else beyond the plot level.
It gave me everything and it left me nothing to chew over. Let me try to explain myself a little better. To compare this to Great Expectations , a sweeping story of love and tragedy, it is totally vanilla.
That book is intriguing and mysterious. There is an element of the unknown. There are shadows that linger over the writing and it is a story that remains with me many years after reading it.
It is that powerful. With David Copperfield , though, I feel like I could quite easily and happily forget most of what happened here.
It is a story I enjoyed but that is all, so three stars seems about right here. Tepid is the word that comes to mind when I think about David Copperfield.
View all 9 comments. There are plenty of other splendid, erudite assessments on this site if you are so inclined and which I highly recommend! This was very intriguing to me, as neither of my parents could be called avid readers by any means.
To my delight, the box contained several very old volumes of Dickens novels. It turns out these were passed on from my grandfather, who as far as I know, never picked up a book for pleasure in his life!
It was a mystery of sorts as to where these books originated in the first place. I thought, perhaps after all I had an ancestor that treasured books as I do!
In any case, David Copperfield was among those volumes. It was too irresistible to pass up the chance to read a book that maybe a great-grandfather or great-grandmother had at one time held lovingly in his or her hands.
I liked to imagine such a thing while reading it at that time. I always felt a little alone in my reading endeavors and this gave me a wee bit of comfort.
As to the book itself, the most vivid memories are of my experience finding it rather than actually reading it.
I recalled it was long, much longer than anything I would ever have picked up at that age. I also remember there being a profusion of characters!
Whether I liked it or not, I have no idea… thus, when the opportunity to read it once again presented itself to me, I jumped on it.
I left the old volume behind when I moved out of my childhood home, so this time I decided to listen to the audio version. Not just any audio would do, however — the Richard Armitage narration!
There is no voice, other than those of my children, that gives me greater pleasure to listen to than his divine tongue.
Have you ever listened to him? Please do. His performances are excellent, and he does a range of voices that would please, thrill and amuse any listener!
Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade.
This book is semi-autobiographical in nature, so one can see a bit of Dickens in young Copperfield. Your heart will break with his misfortunes as he goes forth alone in the world at far too young an age.
He makes mistakes, sometimes misplaces loyalties, and continues to grow as a result. His vivid depictions will keep them in the forefront of your mind to be quickly retrieved when you meet them once again in later pages.
Some may argue they are just caricatures, and that is perhaps true for some. But there are others, like David, who are not merely cut-outs, but like living beings who develop and mature.
There are depths to be explored within them. What I loved most about David Copperfield is the message that families can be made up of a myriad of individuals.
These are not necessarily blood relatives but persons that come into your life and take on the roles of mother, father, sister, brother and so forth.
They do so with an abundance of protection and devotion that will make your spirit soar and once again restore your faith in the decency of some human beings.
I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
View all 93 comments. Feb 12, mark monday rated it it was amazing Shelves: alpha-team , masterpiece-theatre , these-fragile-lives , time-to-come-of-age.
Status Report: Chapters 1 - 8 i had forgotten how much i love Dickens. David is merely an irritation that they want to dispense with, rather than harm.
Dick are two more wonderful Dickens creations. David is rather a tabula rasa of a character. Wickfield and Agnes is not heartwarming.
David Copperfield is kind and good, but he is also a passive, foolishly naive fellow whose kindness and naivete often does nothing but make situations worse - especially in nearly every instance involving his relationship with Steerforth.
Agnes is also kind and good, but her passivity makes her function as a sort of enabler to her father. Steerforth is a callous and feckless villain, but has moments of genuine warmth and kindness.
Uriah Heep is an unctuous, slimy kiss-ass and back-stabber Dickens is not necessarily an 'even-handed' author, but he is one who is clearly aware of context.
David Copperfield is one of my favorite novels. View all 74 comments. David Copperfield is an early queer novel by Charles Dickens. It follows David Copperfield, a gay man in early 19th century England, as he tries to seduce and betroth another gay man, James Steerforth.
Copperfield first sets his eyes on Steerforth at Salem House where they both must subdue their love for each other, giving their age difference and the society of the time.
However, as the novel progresses, Copperfield and Steerforth live openly as a homosexual couple. Their relationship comes int David Copperfield is an early queer novel by Charles Dickens.
Their relationship comes into peril when Dora Spenlow, a jealous fag hag, refuses to continue living as Copperfield's beard and forces him to marry her.
Thus, Copperfield and Steerforth break apart. All seems lost until Copperfield befriends Tommy Traddles, another boy whose acquaintance he had made at Salem House.
They partake in a salubrious love affair to which Dickens pens several hundred pages of steamy man-on-man action.
However, once again this relationship is cast into peril by that bitter old queen Uriah Heep. Uriah Heep is a mean gay and the epitome of masc4masc culture.
However his plan is spoiled after his findom daddy, Mr. Micawber the man who famously threw the first brick at Stonewall , repossess his pearls because Heep refuses to send him any more daguerreotypes of his feet.
Or, in other words: David Copperfield is more of the same from Dickens. More straight-forward than some of his previous novels, Dickens instead relies on verisimilitude rather than ridiculousness in order to tell this story.
It is a pity as the more outrageous Dickens is, the more I enjoy him. However, despite this novel only receiving three-stars from me, it is still better than most novels ever written.
It is only 'three-stars' within Dickens' own bibliography and not the greater Western canon. It probably would have been four-stars if he had included more chapters with Miss Mowcher.
View all 10 comments. Apr 17, Carlie rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: lovers, innocents, justice seekers, and those who are depressed.
This novel is poetry. To truly appreciate the beauty of the English language, one must read David Copperfield. This book cannot be classified.
It is a love story, a drama, and a comedy. It has elements of horror and suspense. I laughed hysterically, sobbed uncontrollably, and threw it to a wall in a fit of anger.
It annoyed, bored, and entrapped me. Th "I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. The characters in this novel are like real people to me and I feel for them as I feel for living creatures.
I despise Mr. It was such a memorable experience that more than 15 years later, I can still recall certain scenes as if they were part of my actual memory.
All that is good about this world innocence, justice, truth can be found within these pages. I cannot reccommend it highly enough.
But I have one helpful suggestion: Do not read it without notebook and paper in hand to keep track of characters.
They are often introduced nonchalantly only to reappear later as central to the storyline. View all 20 comments. Shelves: stand-alone-read , recommendations , massive-tomes , , 4-star , My first Dickens, this book came highly recommended to me and after jumping around this for almost three years I finally managed to read it this time.
This book was also a big achievement for me in terms of classics last year. I started three classics, putting them on halt for other books at different times.
This is the only tome classic that I finished. So yeah, it was a huge achievement for me, especially because I loved it. So am not going to write here what this book is about as almost ever My first Dickens, this book came highly recommended to me and after jumping around this for almost three years I finally managed to read it this time.
So am not going to write here what this book is about as almost everyone must be aware of its content here.
My heart went out for this afraid, stammering kid. And perhaps this hard behavior honed him into something strong that held him up in the tough times, inspired him to go on and never stop.
It was just so beautiful to see them carve him into a good man. As he became a man, friends i. Micawber and Traddles, taught him to smile and made him an honest man.
But Agnes put soul into this hard, strong, and loving man. She inspired him to keep doing good deeds.
She calmed him in spite of going through hell herself. This book left me bittersweet. Bitter because I was not ready to say good bye to these characters yet and sweet because it ended on a high note.
I heaved a huge sigh of relief after seeing my favorite people getting what they deserved. Such a simple yet an absolutely beautiful book.
View all 16 comments. Jun 25, Lisa rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , charles-dickens , books-to-read-before-you-die.
Bravo, Dickens! I have to say that, copying Thackaray for the millionth time, probably. What a difference to read the original, compared to the watered-down versions I was familiar with from my childhood.
It took me quite a lot of time to get into the rich flow of words, the beautiful allusions, and the dry humour, but then I was hooked.
My family will always remember the Christmas vacation when I was in a rage against Uriah Heep, not able to contain my anger, sharing my frustration loudly!
But Bravo, Dickens! But it wasn't only annoyance with the blatant hypocrisy, vulgarity and opportunism, of course. I fell in love with the minor characters, as I usually do when reading Dickens.
And just following their paths, walking through 19th century London, is a delight! Update: My eldest son finished it as well now, and interestingly he was more annoyed with David's naivety than with Uriah's hypocrisy and criminal activities.
By now fully acquainted with the Copperfield universe, he read a comment in The Economist, and burst out laughing at the notoriously self-promoting, self-indulgent, deceptive politician of our days, who claimed to be "very humble indeed - people wouldn't believe really how humble I am!
Well, Uriah ended up playing his tricks in prison The 'umble scoundrel cited in The Economist later moved into the Bleak House , eh Wrong again?
Well, in a world turned upside down, it is a pure pleasure to read Dickens and to know that his characters get the fate they deserve, and that poetical justice will come, after a long nail-biting adventure, originally delivered in the newspapers just like global day-to-day politics!
So, Uriah! I would appreciate if you could just 'umbly stay a fictional character! View all 33 comments. In your reading life you encounter all sorts of books; books you like; books you love; and books perhaps you wish not to have come your way.
On rare occasions, you come across a book, which you feel privileged to have read. David Copperfield undoubtedly falls into this rare category.
The book needs no praise from me. It is only yet another addition to the millions of readers who have loved and appreciated this great work from the time of its first publication.
Charles Dickens himself had said th In your reading life you encounter all sorts of books; books you like; books you love; and books perhaps you wish not to have come your way.
Charles Dickens himself had said that David Copperfield was his "favourite literary child". All these are proof of the book's worth and greatness.
Charles Dickens has written so many great books. There is no argument about it. But if he ever wrote a book with his whole heart and soul, it is David Copperfield.
Even though I haven't read all his books, I've read enough to be assured of that, for how it could be otherwise, when it is almost autobiographic of the author?
Dickens is well known for his clever and witty writing, his satirical observations on English society. But if Dickens is ever known for beautiful, passionate, and sincere writing, the credit falls upon David Copperfield.
The experience which David obtains at a very young age helps him learn about life and the need to work hard with consistency and devotion to become successful in life.
He was a self-made man, whose craving for knowledge and learning made him successful despite the difficulties that surrounded his childhood.
Like David, Dickens was a Parliamentary reporter before completely turning in to authorship. In short, David is his literary presentation of himself, more or less.
The main story in David Copperfield is the life journey of David Copperfield from birth to old age, filled with loss, hardship, struggle, adventure, success, and happiness; and is narrated by him.
The story is also about the moral and personal development of David from his childhood to youth to adulthood; how he grows up from his childhood fantasies and mistaken impressions, shaking off his vanity, self-importance, and mistakes of the undisciplined heart and learning the true meaning and value of life.
Also are included the stories of the other characters which are closely connected with his. These stories allow the reader to gain a broad perception on the then English society, the differences of people according to their classes, the vain superiority of the rich, the difficulties and struggles of average men and women, and tragic lives of young innocent girls who become victims of wicked and lustful men.
A wider area of life, of the relationship between parent and child, husband and wife, of morals and principles, of tragic lives of "fallen women" due to no fault of theirs , of society, are addressed in these stories making it a complete work.
David Copperfield is truly a great book. In my reading life, I have come across many that emotionally affected me; but only a handful had been able to tug at my heartstrings.
David Copperfield is certainly one. The stories, the characters, all were so true and so real. If anyone thinks of reading only one book of Dickens, it should, without doubt, be David Copperfield.
David is the hero of his life because of the unconditional love and support of two heroines: his aunt Betsy and Agnes.
Shelves: family-drama , fun-for-the-whole-family , classic , romance , epic-reads , must-read , coming-of-age , favorites , delicious-writing , inspiring.
I laughed along with him and hi "Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
I laughed along with him and his carer, Peggotty, as they played together. I settled in by the fire with David and his widowed, childlike mother to bask in the warmth of their family and, as Master Copperfield grew, my love for him swelled.
But this tale is not all sunshine and lollipops - far from it! By the time I had realized what lay ahead, I was too enmeshed to turn back.
I cursed those who had hurt my treasured lad, but David remained ever hopeful and bright, even in the face of impossible odds. He shared this faith with me, along with laughter, love, and hope of a more glorious day to come.
David Copperfield will, from this day forth, be one of my favorite books. Dickens' writing, of course, is pure gold with delicious, buttery prose gracing every page.
A big thank you to Martha. Her passionate review convinced me to add this! Markleham dropped the newspaper, and stared more like a figure-head intended for a ship to be called The Astonishment, than anything else I can think of.
View all 56 comments. Oct 02, Luffy rated it really liked it. What can be said of David Copperfield that hasn't been said before? I've been told that the book is funny.
Edward Murdstone. One day Mr. Murdstone takes David to his bedroom to beat him, and David bites his hand. After that, the eight-year-old David is sent to a boarding school run by the sadistic Mr.
There David becomes friends with the kind and steadfast Tommy Traddles and with the charismatic and entitled James Steerforth. After that, Peggotty is dismissed, and she marries Barkis , who drives a wagon.
He lodges at the home of Mr. Micawber , a generous couple who are constantly facing financial disaster. Eventually, Mr.
Dick , she takes him in. Miss Betsey arranges for David to go to a school run by Doctor Strong and to stay with her business manager, Mr.
Wickfield, and his daughter, Agnes. Working for Mr. Wickfield is an off-putting teenaged clerk named Uriah Heep. After David completes his schooling, he goes to visit Peggotty.
He maintains his friendship with Steerforth, though Agnes Wickfield disapproves. David finds that Traddles is now a boarder with Mr. Upon learning that Barkis is on the point of death, he returns to Yarmouth.
Peggotty vows to find her. David returns to London and becomes engaged to Dora. Uriah Heep hires Mr. Micawber as a clerk. Eventually, David marries Dora.
After she suffers a miscarriage, she never regains her strength and she dies. During this time Emily returns to London after being abandoned in Naples by Steerforth.
Plans are then made for Mr. Micawber to join Mr. Peggotty and Emily when they immigrate to Australia to make a fresh start.
Ahead of the departure, David goes to Yarmouth to deliver a letter from Emily to Ham, but a dangerous storm arises.
Several ships are lost, and one shipwreck occurs close enough to shore that Ham tries to swim out and save the last two survivors.
Ham drowns, and, when the body of one of the sailors is washed ashore, it proves to be Steerforth. David spends the next three years in continental Europe, and, when he returns, he marries Agnes.
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Contrary to Charles's frustrated love for Maria Beadnell, who pushed him back in front of his parents' opposition, David, in the novel, marries Dora Spenlow and, with satisfaction ex post facto , writes Paul Davis, virtually "kills" the recalcitrant stepfather.
David's natural modesty alone does not explain all these changes; Paul Davis expresses the opinion that Dickens recounts his life as he would have liked it, and along with "conscious artistry", Dickens knows how to borrow data, integrate them to his original purpose and transform them according to the novelistic necessities, so that "In the end, Copperfield is David's autobiography, not Dickens's".
David Copperfield is the contemporary of two major memory-based works, William Wordsworth 's The Prelude , an autobiographical poem about the formative experiences of his youth and Tennyson 's In Memoriam which eulogises the memory of his friend, Arthur Hallam.
According to Andrew Sanders, David Copperfield reflects both types of response, which give this novel the privileged position of representing the hinge of the century.
The memories of Dickens are, according to Paul Schlicke, remarkably transmuted into fiction. Dickens's youthful passion for Maria Beadnell resurfaces with tenderness, in the form of David's impractical marriage with Dora Spenlow.
Dickens's decision to make David a novelist emphasises how he used this book to re-invent himself as a man and artist, "The world would not take another Pickwick from me, but we can be cheerful and merry, and with a little more purpose in us".
Unlike Thackeray, who adored it, Dickens claims years later to have never read it. A rivalry existed between the two writers, though it preoccupied Thackeray more than Dickens.
The most direct literary influence is "obviously Carlyle" who, in a lecture given in , the year of his meeting with Dickens, on "On Heroes, Hero-Worship" and "the Heroic in History", claims that the most important modern character is "the hero as a man of letters".
Lemon was a founding editor of Punch , and soon a contributor to Household Words , the weekly magazine Dickens was starting up; he co-authored Mr Nightingale's Diary , a farce, with Dickens in A week after his arrival in Yarmouth, his sixth son, Henry Fielding Dickens, was named after Henry Fielding , his favorite past author.
Per Forster, Dickens refers to Fielding "as a kind of homage to the novel he was about to write". As always with Dickens, when a writing project began, he was agitated, melancholy, "even deeper than the customary birth pangs of other novels"; [28] as always, he hesitated about the title, and his working notes contain seventeen variants, "Charles Copperfield" included.
Contrary to the method previously used for Dombey and Son , Dickens did not elaborate an overall plan and often wrote the summary of a chapter after completing it.
Four character names were found at the last moment: Traddles, Barkis, Creakle and Steerforth; [31] the profession of David remains uncertain until the eighth issue printed in December , containing Chapters 22—24, in which David chooses to be trained as a proctor ; and Paul Schlicke notes that the future of Dora was still not determined on 17 May when 37 chapters had been published in the first 12 monthly instalments.
Other major aspects of the novel, however, were immediately fixed, such as David's meeting with Aunt Betsey, Emily's fall or Agnes's role as the "real" heroine of the story.
Once launched, Dickens becomes "quite confident". Never, it seems, was he in the grip of failures of inspiration, so "ardent [is his] sympathy with the creatures of the fancy which always made real to him their sufferings or sorrows.
Changes in detail occur during the composition: on 22 August , while staying on the Isle of Wight for a family vacation, he changed on the advice of Forster, the theme of the obsession of Mr Dick, a secondary character in the novel.
This theme was originally "a bull in a china shop" and became "King Charles's head" in a nod to the bicentenary of the execution of Charles I of England.
Although plunged into the writing of his novel, Dickens set out to create a new journal, Household Words , [34] the first issue of which appeared on 31 March This daunting task, however, did not seem to slow down the writing of David Copperfield : I am "busy as a bee", he writes happily to the actor William Macready.
A serious incident occurred in December: Mrs Jane Seymour Hill, chiropractor to Mrs Dickens , [36] raised the threat of prosecution, because she recognised herself in the portrait of Miss Mowcher; Dickens did not do badly, [37] gradually modifying the psychology of the character by making her less of a caricature and, at the very end of the novel, by making her a friend of the protagonist, whereas at the beginning she served rather contrary purposes.
His third daughter was born on 16 August , called Dora Annie Dickens, the same name as his character's first wife. The baby died nine months later after the last serial was issued and the book was published.
Dickens marked the end of his manuscript on 21 October [9] and felt both torn and happy like every time he finished a novel: "Oh, my dear Forster, if I were to say half of what Copperfield makes me feel to-night, how strangely, even to you, I should be turned inside out!
I seem to be sending some part of myself into the Shadowy World. It begins, like other novels by Dickens, with a rather bleak painting of the conditions of childhood in Victorian England, notoriously when the troublesome children are parked in infamous boarding schools, then he strives to trace the slow social and intimate ascent of a young man who, painfully providing for the needs of his good aunt while continuing his studies, ends up becoming a writer: the story, writes Paul Davis, of "a Victorian everyman seeking self-understanding".
The last instalment was a double-number. Whatever the borrowings from Dickens's own life, the reader knows as an essential precondition, that David Copperfield is a novel and not an autobiography ; a work with fictional events and characters — including the hero-narrator — who are creations of Dickens' imagination.
The use of the first person determines the point of view: the narrator Copperfield, is a recognised writer, married to Agnes for more than ten years, who has decided to speak in public about his past life.
This recreation, in itself an important act, can only be partial and also biased, since, a priori , Copperfield is the only viewpoint and the only voice; not enjoying the prerogatives of the third person, omnipotence, ubiquity, clairvoyance, he relates only what he witnessed or participated in: [40] all the characters appear in his presence or, failing that, he learns through hearsay, before being subjected to his pen through the prism of his conscience, deformed by the natural deficit of his perception and accentuated by the selective filter of memory.
His point of view is that of the adult he has become, as he expresses himself just as he is writing. At the end of his book, he feels a writer's pride to evoke "the thread[s] in the web I have spun" [42].
How well I recollect the kind of day it was! I smell the fog that hung about the place; I see the hoar-frost, ghostly, through it; I feel my rimy hair fall clammy on my cheek; I look along the dim perspective of the schoolroom, with a sputtering candle here and there to light up the foggy morning, and the breath of the boys wreathing and smoking in the raw cold as they blow upon their fingers, and rap their feet upon the floor.
In such passages, which punctuate the retrospective chapters, the relived moment replaces the lived, the historical present seals the collapse of the original experience and the recreation of a here and now that seizes the entire field of consciousness.
Without being Dickens, this narrator, Copperfield, is very like him and often becomes his spokesperson. It adds to his point of view, directly or indirectly, that of the author, without there necessarily being total match between the two.
As such, Copperfield serves as "medium", mirror and also screen, Dickens sometimes subverting his speech to get to the forefront or, on the contrary, hide behind this elegant delegate to the nimble pen.
Dickens' voice, however, is in general well concealed and, according to Gareth Cordery, the most difficult to detect because mostly present by implication.
For example, in chapter 21, the two friends arrive by surprise at the Peggotty home, and Copperfield presents Steerforth to Emily at the very moment when her betrothal with Ham has just been announced.
This sudden intrusion stops the girl as she has just jumped from Ham's arms to nestle in those of Mr Peggotty, a sign, says Cordery in passing, that the promise of marriage is as much for the uncle as for the nephew.
The text remains brief but Phiz interprets, anticipates the events, denounces even the future guilt of Copperfield: all eyes are on the girl, her bonnet, emblem of her social aspirations and her next wanderings with Steerforth, is ready to be seized.
Copperfield, dressed as a gentleman, stands in the doorway, one finger pointing at Steerforth who is taller by one head, the other measuring the gap between Ham and Dan Peggotty, as if offering Emily to his friend.
Emily, meanwhile, still has her head turned to Ham but the body is withdrawn and the look has become both challenging and provocative.
Phiz brings together in a single image a whole bunch of unwritten information, which Dickens approved and probably even suggested.
A third perspective is the point of view of the discerning reader who, although generally carried away by sympathy for the narrator's self-interested pleading, does not remain blissfully ignorant and ends up recognizing the faults of the man and of the writer, just as he also learns to identify and gauge the covert interventions of the author.
The discerning reader listens to the adult Copperfield and hears what this adult wants or does not want them to hear.
So, when Dora dies, the reader sees that the topic of grief is dropped in a hurry, as if Copperfield had more important things to do than to indulge in sorrow: "this is not the time at which I am to enter a state of mind beneath its load of sorrow", [52] which creates a question and an embarrassment: is Copperfield protecting himself from his confusion, or does he shed some crocodile tears for form?
Copperfield also examines some of his most culpable weaknesses, such as unconscious connivance his "own unconscious part" in the defilement of the Peggotty home by Steerforth, which he remains forever incapable of opposing: "I believe that if I had been brought face to face with him, I could not have uttered one reproach.
These underground currents are thus revealed in David's psychological struggle, Gareth Cordery concludes, currents that his narrative unconsciously attempts to disguise.
The story is a road from which different paths leave. The road is that of David's life, the main plot; the branches are born of meetings with him and lead to several secondary intrigues taken more or less far along.
Each is represented by an important figure: Mr Micawber, Steerforth, little Emily, Uriah Heep; there are side stories, that of Martha Endell, Rosa Dartle, and, along the main road, stretch some parallel paths on which the reader is from time to time invited: the Traddles, Betsey Trotwood, the Peggotty family, Dan and Ham in particular, Peggotty herself remaining from start to finish intimately related to David.
The different tracks do not move away from the main avenue, and when they do, a narrative "forceps" brings them together again.
Hence the retrospective chapters and the ultimate recapitulation were written. The narrative is linear in appearance, as is usual in traditional first-person form.
It covers the narrator's life until the day he decides to put an end to his literary endeavor. However, whole sections of his life are summarized in a few paragraphs, or sometimes just a sentence or two, indicating that three or ten years have passed, or that Dora is dead, necessary to keep the story moving along.
Thus, the long stay of reflection in Switzerland which leads to the recognition of love for Agnes, or the lapse of time before the final chapter, are all blanks in the story.
Besides the hero, this story concerns important secondary characters such as Mr Micawber or Uriah Heep, or Betsey Trotwood and Traddles, the few facts necessary for a believable story are parsimoniously distilled in the final chapters: an impromptu visit to a prison, the unexpected return of Dan Peggotty from the Antipodes; so many false surprises for the narrator who needs them to complete each person's personal story.
As such, the epilogue that represents the last chapter Ch 64 is a model of the genre, a systematic review, presumably inspired by his memory, without true connection.
There is the desire to finish with each one, with forced exclamations and ecstatic observations, scrolling through the lives of those who are frozen in time: Dick with his "Memorial" and his kite, Dr Strong and his dictionary, and as a bonus, the news of David's "least child", which implies that there have been other children between him and eldest child Agnes of whom the reader has never heard by name.
So also goes the story of Dan Peggotty relating the sad tale of his niece. The four chapters called "Retrospect" Ch 18 A Retrospect, Ch 43 Another Retrospect, Ch 53 Another Retrospect and Ch 64 A Last Retrospect are placed at strategic moments of the general discourse, which play a catch-up role more than one of meditation by the narrator, without venturing into event details.
Here, the narration has disappeared, it has given way to a list, an enumeration of events. Dickens' approach, as shown in David Copperfield , does not escape what fr:Georges Gusdorf calls "the original sin of autobiography", that is to say a restructuring a posteriori and in this, paradoxically, it demonstrates its authenticity.
It is a succession of autonomous moments which do not end up amalgamating in a coherent whole and that connect the tenuous thread of the "I" recognizing each other.
In this reconstruction, one part of truth and the other of poetry, the famous Dichtung und Wahrheit From my Life: Poetry and Truth; — , autobiography of Goethe , there is the obligatory absence of objectivity, the promotion of oblivion as an integral part of memory, the ruling power of the subjectivity of time found.
Thus, to use George Gusdorf's words again, David Copperfield appears as a "second reading of a man's experience", in this case, Charles Dickens, when he reached the fullness of his career, tried to give "a meaning to his legend".
This novel's main theme arises from the fact that it is a bildungsroman , a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, which is common in Dickens's novels, [61] and in which character change is extremely important.
Other important themes relate especially to Dickens's social concerns, and his desire for reform. This includes the plight of so-called 'fallen women', and prostitutes, as well as the attitude of middle-class society to these women; the status of women in marriage; the rigid class structure; the prison system; educational standards, and emigration to the colonies of what was becoming the British Empire.
The latter was a way for individuals to escape some of the rigidity of British society and start anew. Some of these subjects are directly satirized, while others are worked into the novel in more complex ways by Dickens.
Copperfield's path to maturity is marked by the different names assigned to him: his mother calls him "Davy"; Murdstone calls him as "Brooks of Sheffield"; for Peggotty's family, he is "Mas'r Davy"; en route to boarding school from Yarmouth, he appears as "Master Murdstone"; at Murdstone and Grinby, he is known as "Master Copperfield"; Mr Micawber is content with "Copperfield"; for Steerforth he is "Daisy"; he becomes "Mister Copperfield" with Uriah Heep; and "Trotwood", soon shortened to "Trot" for Aunt Betsey; Mrs Crupp deforms his name into "Mr Copperfull"; and for Dora he is "Doady".
It is by writing his own story, and giving him his name in the title, that Copperfield can finally assert who he is. David's life can be seen as a series of lives, each one in radical disjunction from what follows, writes Paul Davis.
For example, in Chapter 17, while attending Canterbury School, he met Mr Micawber at Uriah Heep's, and a sudden terror gripped him that Heep could connect him, such as he is today, and the abandoned child who lodged with the Micawber family in London.
So many mutations indicate the name changes, which are sometimes received with relief: "Trotwood Copperfield", when he finds refuge in Dover at his Aunt Betsey's house, so the narrator writes, "Thus I began my new life, in a new name, and with everything new about me.
There is a process of forgetfulness, a survival strategy developed by memory, which poses a major challenge to the narrator; his art, in fact, depends on the ultimate reconciliation of differences in order to free and preserve the unified identity of his being a man.
David opens his story with a question: Will I be the hero of my own life? This means that he does not know where his approach will lead him, that writing itself will be the test.
As Paul Davis puts it, "In this Victorian quest narrative, the pen might be lighter than the sword, and the reader will be left to judge those qualities of the man and the writer that constitute heroism.
However, question implies an affirmation: it is Copperfield, and no one else, who will determine his life, the future is delusory, since the games are already played, the life has been lived, with the novel being only the story.
Copperfield is not always the hero of his life, and not always the hero of his story, as some characters have a stronger role than him, [67] Besides Steerforth, Heep, Micawber, for example, he often appears passive and lightweight.
Hence, concludes Paul Davis, the need to read his life differently; it is more by refraction through other characters that the reader has a true idea of the "hero" of the story.
What do these three men reveal to him, and also to Dora, whom he marries? The dictionary of Strong will never be completed and, as a story of a life, will end with the death of its author.
As for Mr Dick, his autobiographical project constantly raises the question of whether he can transcend the incoherence and indecision of his subject-narrator.
Will he be able to take the reins, provide a beginning, a middle, an end? Will he succeed in unifying the whole, in overcoming the trauma of the past, his obsession with the decapitated royal head, so as to make sense of the present and find a direction for the future?
According to Paul Davis, only Copperfield succeeds in constructing a whole of his life, including suffering and failure, as well as successes, and that is "one measure of his heroism as a writer".
The past "speaks" especially to David, "a child of close observation" chapter 2 ; the title of this chapter is: "I observe", [68] and as an adult he is endowed with a remarkable memory.
The past tense verb is often the preterite for the narrative , and the sentences are often short independent propositions, each one stating a fact.
Admittedly, the adult narrator intervenes to qualify or provide an explanation, without, however, taking precedence over the child's vision.
And sometimes, the story is prolonged by a reflection on the functioning of the memory. So, again in chapter 2, the second and third paragraphs comment on the first memory of the two beings surrounding David, his mother, and Peggotty:.
I believe I can remember these two at a little distance apart, dwarfed to my sight by stooping or kneeling on the floor, and I going unsteadily from the one to the other.
I have an impression on my mind, which I cannot distinguish from actual remembrance, of the touch of Peggotty's forefinger as she used to hold it out to me, and of its being roughened by needlework, like a pocket nutmeg-grater.
This may be fancy, though I think the memory of most of us can go further back into such times than many of us suppose; just as I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy.
Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in this respect may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.
David thus succeeds, as George Orwell puts it, in standing "both inside and outside a child's mind", [5] a particularly important double vision effect in the first chapters.
The perspective of the child is combined with that of the adult narrator who knows that innocence will be violated and the feeling of security broken.
Thus, even before the intrusion of Mr Murdstone as step-father or Clara's death, the boy feels "intimations of mortality".
Bewitching Mrs Copperfield's incumbrance? Somebody's sharp. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. I was quite relieved to find that it was only Brooks of Sheffield, for, at first, I really thought it was I.
There seemed to be something very comical in the reputation of Mr Brooks of Sheffield, for both the gentlemen laughed heartily when he was mentioned, and Mr Murdstone was a good deal amused also.
The final blow, brutal and irremediable this time, is the vision, in chapter 9, of his own reflection in his little dead brother lying on the breast of his mother: "The mother who lay in the grave was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms was myself, as I had once been, hushed forever on her bosom".
David Copperfield is a posthumous child , that is, he was born after his father died. His first years are spent with women, two Claras, [N 8] his mother and Peggotty, which, according to Paul Davis, "undermines his sense of masculinity".
Steerforth is not mistaken, when from the outset he calls Copperfield "Daisy"—a flower of spring, symbol of innocent youth.
To forge an identity as a man and learn how to survive in a world governed by masculine values, instinctively, he looks for a father figure who can replace that of the father he did not have.
Several male models will successively offer themselves to him: the adults Mr Murdstone, Mr Micawber and Uriah Heep, his comrades Steerforth and Traddles.
Mr Murdstone darkens Copperfield's life instead of enlightening him, because the principle of firmness which he champions, absolute novelty for the initial family unit, if he instills order and discipline, kills spontaneity and love.
The resistance that Copperfield offers him is symbolic: opposing a usurper without effective legitimacy, he fails to protect his mother but escapes the straitjacket and achieves his independence.
Mr Murdstone thus represents the anti-father, double negative of the one of which David was deprived, model a contrario of what it is not necessary to be.
The second surrogate father is just as ineffective, although of a diametrically opposed personality: it is Mr Micawber who, for his part, lacks firmness to the point of sinking into irresponsibility.
Overflowing with imagination and love, in every way faithful and devoted, inveterate optimist, he eventually becomes, in a way, the child of David who helps him to alleviate his financial difficulties.
The roles are reversed and, by the absurdity, David is forced to act as a man and to exercise adult responsibilities towards him. However, the Micawbers are not lacking in charm, the round Wilkins, of course, but also his dry wife, whose music helps her to live.
New avatar of this quest, Uriah Heep is "a kind of negative mirror to David". For David, Steerforth represents all that Heep is not: born a gentleman, with no stated ambition or defined life plan, he has a natural presence and charisma that immediately give him scope and power.
However, his failure as a model is announced well before the episode at Yarmouth where he seizes, like a thief, Little Emily before causing her loss in Italy.
He already shows himself as he is, brutal, condescending, selfish and sufficient, towards Rosa Dartle, bruised by him for life, and Mr Mell who undergoes the assaults of his cruelty.
The paradox is that even as he gauges his infamy, David remains from start to finish dazzled by Steerforth's aristocratic ascendancy, even as he contemplates him drowning on Yarmouth Beach, "lying with his head upon his arm, as I had often seen him at school".
Now consider Traddles, the anti-Steerforth, the same age as the hero, not very brilliant at school, but wise enough to avoid the manipulations to which David succumbs.
His attraction for moderation and reserve assures him the strength of character that David struggles to forge. Neither rich nor poor, he must also make a place for himself in the world, at which he succeeds by putting love and patience at the center of his priorities, the love that tempers the ambition and the patience that moderates the passion.
His ideal is to achieve justice in his actions, which he ends up implementing in his profession practically. In the end, Traddles, in his supreme modesty, represents the best male model available to David.
There are others, Daniel Peggotty for example, all love and dedication, who goes in search of his lost niece and persists in mountains and valleys, beyond the seas and continents, to find her trace.
Mr Peggotty is the anti-Murdstone par excellence, but his influence is rather marginal on David, as his absolute excellence, like the maternal perfection embodied by his sister Peggotty, makes him a character type more than an individual to refer to.
There is also the carter Barkis, original, laconic and not without defects, but a man of heart. He too plays a role in the personal history of the hero, but in a fashion too episodic to be significant, especially since he dies well before the end of the story.
It is true that David's personal story makes it more difficult for him to access the kind of equilibrium that Traddles presents, because it seems destined, according to Paul Davis, to reproduce the errors committed by his parents.
The chapters describing their loves are among the best in the novel [65] because Dickens manages to capture the painful ambivalence of David, both passionately infatuated with the irresistible young woman, to whom we can only pass and forgive everything, and frustrated by his weak character and his absolute ignorance of any discipline.
For love, the supreme illusion of youth, he tries to change it, to "form her mind", which leads him to recognize that "firmness" can to be a virtue which, ultimately, he needs.
However, finding himself in a community of thought, even distantly, with his hateful and cruel stepfather whom he holds responsible for the death of his mother and a good deal of his own misfortunes, it was a troubling discovery.
It is his aunt Betsey who, by her character, represents the struggle to find the right balance between firmness and gentleness, rationality and empathy.
Life forced Betsey Trotwood to assume the role she did not want, that of a father, and as such she became, but in her own way, adept at steadfastness and discipline.
From an initially culpable intransigence, which led her to abandon the newborn by denouncing the incompetence of the parents not even capable of producing a girl, she finds herself gradually tempered by circumstances and powerfully helped by the "madness" of her protege, Mr Dick.
He, between two flights of kites that carry away the fragments of his personal history, and without his knowing it, plays a moderating role, inflecting the rationality of his protector by his own irrationality, and his cookie-cutter judgments by considerations of seeming absurdity, but which, taken literally, prove to be innate wisdom.
In truth, Aunt Betsey, despite her stiffness and bravado, does not dominate her destiny; she may say she can do it, yet she cannot get David to be a girl, or escape the machinations of Uriah Heep any more than the money demands of her mysterious husband.
She also fails, in spite of her lucidity, her clear understanding, of the love blindness of her nephew, to prevent him from marrying Dora and in a parallel way, to reconcile the Strongs.
In fact, in supreme irony, it is once again Mr Dick who compensates for his inadequacies, succeeding with intuition and instinctive understanding of things, to direct Mr Micawber to save Betsey from the clutches of Heep and also to dispel the misunderstandings of Dr Strong and his wife Annie.
As often in Dickens where a satellite of the main character reproduces the course in parallel, the story of the Strong couple develops in counterpoint that of David and Dora.
While Dora is in agony, David, himself obsessed with his role as a husband, observes the Strongs who are busy unraveling their marital distress.
Two statements made by Annie Strong impressed him: in the first, she told him why she rejected Jack Maldon and thanked her husband for saving her "from the first impulse of an undisciplined heart".
He concludes that in all things, discipline tempered by kindness and kindness is necessary for the equilibrium of a successful life.
Mr Murdstone preached firmness; in that, he was not wrong. Where he cruelly failed was that he matched it with selfish brutality instead of making it effective by the love of others.
It is because David has taken stock of his values and accepted the painful memories of Dora's death, that he is finally ready to go beyond his emotional blindness and recognize his love for Agnes Wickfield, the one he already has called the "true heroine" of the novel to which he gives his name.
Paul Davis writes that Agnes is surrounded by an aura of sanctity worthy of a stained glass window, that she is more a consciousness or an ideal than a person, that, certainly, she brings the loving discipline and responsibility of which the hero needs, but lacks the charm and human qualities that made Dora so attractive.
That said, the writer David, now David Copperfield, realised the vow expressed to Agnes when he was newly in love with Dora, in Chapter Depression : "If I had a conjurer's cap, there is no one I should have wished but for you".
Thus, David Copperfield is the story of a journey through life and through oneself, but also, by the grace of the writer, the recreation of the tenuous thread uniting the child and the adult, the past and the present, in what Georges Gusdorf calls "fidelity to the person".
Admittedly, it is not the primary interest of David Copperfield that remains above all the story of a life told by the very one who lived it, but the novel is imbued with a dominant ideology, that of the middle class , advocating moral constancy, hard work, separate spheres for men and women, and, in general, the art of knowing one's place, indeed staying in that place.
Further, some social problems and repeated abuses being topical, Dickens took the opportunity to expose them in his own way in his fiction, and Trevor Blount, in his introduction to the edition Penguin Classics, reissued in , devotes several pages to this topic.
However, Gareth Cordery shows that behind the display of Victorian values, often hides a watermarked discourse that tends to question, test, and even subvert them.
Among the social issues that David Copperfield is concerned with, are prostitution, the prison system, education, as well as society's treatment of the insane.
Dickens' views on education are reflected in the contrast he makes between the harsh treatment that David receives at the hands of Creakle at Salem House and Dr Strong's school where the methods used inculcate honour and self—reliance in its pupils.
Through the character of "the amiable, innocent, and wise fool" Mr Dick, Dickens's "advocacy in the humane treatment of the insane" can be seen.
So Betsy Trotwood, continuing Mr Dick's story in Chapter 14, stepped in to suggest that Mr Dick should be given "his little income, and come and live with" her: "I am ready to take care of him, and shall not ill-treat him as some people besides the asylum-folks have done.
The employment of young children in factories and mines under harsh conditions in the early Victorian era disturbed many.
There was a series of Parliamentary enquiries into the working conditions of children, and these "reports shocked writers Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Charles Dickens.
Young David works in a factory for a while after his mother dies and his stepfather showed no interest in him. Such depictions contributed to the call for legislative reform.
Dickens satirises contemporary ideas about how prisoners should be treated in Chapter 61, 'I am Shown Two Interesting Penitents'. In this chapter, published in November , David along with Traddles is shown around a large well-built new prison, modelled on Pentonville prison built in , where a new, supposedly more humane, system of incarceration is in operation, under the management of David's former headmaster Creakle.
In the prison David and Traddles encounter 'model prisoners' 27 and 28, who they discover are Uriah Heep and Mr Littimer. Both are questioned about the quality of the food and Creakle promises improvements.
Dickens's ideas in this chapter were in line with Carlyle , whose pamphlet, "Model Prisons", also denounced Pentonville Prison, was published in the spring of Article Contents.
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Although no exact dates are given in the novel, David is supposed to be writing his memoirs in , at a time when he is the father to at least four children born after the events of the last chapter.
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