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David Copperfield
What has always bothered me about David Copperfield is that it is too idealistic. Dickens presents a picture of David marrying a girl who is really all wrong for him, but then David is released...
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David Copperfield
One of the best ways you can tell that this is a story about growing up is by reading the first sentence, which I think is one of the best openings in all of literature. Whether I shall turn out...
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Peggotty told David that he was going to see her family in Yarmouth and it would be fun, and nothing about his mother's wedding. Peggotty did not tell David that his mother was getting married; she...
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David Copperfield’s mother is weak. After she has her second child, she marries Mr. Murdstone while David is at the house of Pegotty, David’s nurse. His mother moves in with him. Both of...
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A significant event came in David’s childhood, when Mr. Murdstone sent him to London, to “live life on his own.” The humiliation of having to work in a blacking factory, usually reserved for...
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David Copperfield is realistic fiction, because the events could happen in real life. Fantasy usually involves magic, and science fiction uses technology we do not really have yet. Realistic...
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Dora and Emily both want to be ladies. Dora, having come from a well-to-do family, was born into and brought up in this lifestyle. She is concerned about what a lady should do and should not do....
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When David returned home from school, he found that his mother and Mr. Murdstone had a new baby. Before, David had been the sole child and sole focus of attention from the adults. Now he has been...
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Peggotty had been a companion to both Mrs. Copperfield/Murdstone and David before the Murdstones arrived. She is one of the few kind people in David’s childhood and tries very hard to protect...
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David Copperfield
Mr. Wickfield is Agnes’s father and David’s guardian during his time at school. He is kind and gentle, but unfortunately easily manipulated. He falls victim to Uriah Heep, as does Aunt Betsey...
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Steerforth has treated a friend of David’s terribly, but he wants to be remembered as he was before. He needs people to think well of him. Steerforth is a childhood friend of David’s that he...
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David's father passed away six months before David was born and a year after he married David's mother. When Miss Betsey comes up to the door of David's house, she foregoes ringing the doorbell and...
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David Copperfield
Early in Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield, the mother of the title character David begins being courted by a man named Edward Murdstone, whom neither he nor his nanny Peggotty like. In an...
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David Copperfield
A story's moral is the lesson it teaches about behavior that is right or prudent. Short works, especially fables and folk tales, are usually said to have morals (lessons taught about good and wise...
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Dora represents the idealized figure of female beauty, while Agnes is a practical beauty. David’s first wife, Dora, is angelic. She is young, small, cheerful, helpless, and pretty. She is also...
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For a child to stop trusting adults, he has been tricked and mistreated by them. The older David is reflecting on how as a child he trusted the waiter, because he was older, and the waiter tricked...
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In Chapter 16 the reader discovers more about the character of Agnes and in particular certain aspects of her character that make her very suitable to be David's future wife. Firstly, both have...
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David Copperfield
One of the central themes in this novel is that of marriage and what a good marriage looks like. The novel presents the reader with various examples, but interestingly, it is important to note that...
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One of the great things about Dickens is how he portrays the downtrodden in his work. We frequently encounter characters on the fringe, characters who sometimes have to resort to illegal or immoral...
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Although David narrates his story as an adult, he relays the impressions he had from a youthful point of view. We see how David’s perception of the world deepens as he comes of age. We see...
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We will relate to a character in a novel or short story if that character has a problem. The problem is almost always the result of the character's motivation. He wants something--but he can't get...
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After Barkis dies, David helps Peggotty in whatever way he can. In chapter 31, he prides himself on figuring out where Barkis’s possessions are, and has Peggotty look in the box he always had...
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They did not say how they died
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David Copperfield
A bildungsroman can actually be called a novel of education. It depicts the struggles and challenges that a protagonist faces and how they develop and mature as a result of those challenges until...
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David Copperfield
Wow! You do realise that this is one of the longest novels by Charles Dickens! Any attempt to summarise it in 150 words is going to miss out a number of details, so I have included a few links...
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David Copperfield is Charles Dickens’s most autobiographical work. It is written as an autobiography, with the narrator looking back and reflecting on his life from when he was born until he was...
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The climax is the turning point of a story, and the most exciting part. In David Copperfield, the climax occurs when David witnesses the aftermath of a shipwreck and Steerforth’s death. In the...
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The answer you are looking for can be found in Chapter 17 of this amazing classic Dickens novel. Having shifted educational establishments to Mr. Strong's school, much to his relief, David reports...
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Clearly, a work that is as long as this novel is will have a number of themes and will contain a number of different symbols. The answer given above refers to a number of the themes, so I will...
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The answer to this question depends on what you mean by wanton. A dictionary will give you something like the following definition: a wanton character is one who is merciless, lewd, malicious,...
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It is following his adoption by his long-lost Aunt, Betsey Trotwood, that David is sent to a new and infinitely better school than the one he was sent to in London by the Murdstones. This event...
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David is miserable at Salem House. He describes it as desolate and depressing. When he first arrives, the students are on holiday. He is also forced to wear a sign saying that he bites. The...
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David Copperfield
In Charles Dickens's autobiographical novel, David Copperfield, after David's mother dies, he is sent away by his cruel stepfather, Edward Murdstone in an effort to be rid of David. In London...
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Two characters that represent truth and love are David’s housekeeper Pegotty and aunt Betsy Trotwood. These two women are David’s guardians and protectors at different times. While his mother...
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After David's unfortunate encounter with Mr. Murdstone in Chapter 5 of David Copperfield, he sent away to Salem House where Mr. Creakle is the headmaster. He is a man with a "fiery face" with...
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Mrs. Gummidge is a relative of David’s nurse, Clara Peggotty. Mrs. Gummidge’s husband was Mr. Peggotty’s partner. When Mr. Gummidge (a sailor) dies by drowning, Mr. Peggotty takes care of...
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The gravestone seems to foreshadow the death of Clara. David, however, is discussing the death of his father, which occured about the time of David's birth. David thinks that it is strange that he...
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The term gentleman is often used sarcastically or satirically in David Copperfield. Sometimes it just refers to anyone, but other times it refers to a specific social class. In chapter 25,...
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It is in Chapter 45 that we find the final answer to all of the suspicion and curiosity concerning the exact nature of the "friendship" between Annie Strong and Jack Maldon, when Annie has a...
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Mr. Micawber went to work for Uriah Heep who had taken over active control of Wickfield's business. After this occurs, Mrs. Micawber sends David a letter saying the Mr. Micawber is not acting like...
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It is important to remember that this book is a bildungsroman, or a novel of education, which features a protagonist and his or her journey towards maturity and finding his place in society. As...
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Mr. Micawber eventually becomes a friend to David, but I would describe him as more of a mentor when David first meets him. When David is sent to work in London, he is offered lodging with the...
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These are two excellent novels to compare, because both are semiautobiographical, but they represent different views of Dickens's life. David Copperfield is optimistic, and was written when...
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1. Both novels are categorized in Dickens' orphan series. Pip from Great Expectations and David are children who have lost one or both parents and who experience abuse at the hands of someone who...
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Not surprisingly, the main character of the book "David Copperfield" (written by Charles Dickens in 1850) is David Copperfield. The novel follows the main character from his youth up through his...
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You must be referring to the passage where Miss Trotwood drops out of sight when she learns that her self-appointed godchild (and namesake, probably!) is a boy instead of a girl. Here Dickens is...
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David Copperfield is a fictional biography, describing the title character’s life. David narrates the novel himself. Some of the information in the novel is autobiographical and relates to...
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One of the reasons why this is an important element for the atmosphere of nostalgia, melancholy, loss, and drastic change of the story, is because Victorian England was a place of extremes: You...
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I would ask David why he felt guilty for biting Mr. Murdstone, even though Murdstone was cruel to his mother and was planning to beat David before he bit him. David regrets his actions not because...
