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David Copperfield
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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David Copperfield
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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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens's David Copperfield was first published in 1849. During this time in England, the Victorian period, child labor was common. Children were sent to work in coal mines and in factories...
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David Copperfield
David knows his aunt likes him—especially after she begins calling him Trot—but he wonders about his schooling. Then one night at the beginning of chapter 15, as they are playing backgammon, Miss...
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David Copperfield
David and Peggotty travel to Yarmouth in chapter three of David Copperfield to stay with Peggotty’s brother, Dan, for two weeks. They are met by Ham, who takes them back to the Peggotty home....
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David Copperfield
David Copperfield, originally titled The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any...
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David Copperfield
There are two Claras in the story: David's mother and the family housekeeper, Clara Peggotty. Both of them have quite different characteristics to the formidable Betsey Trotwood. In many respects,...
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield, the full title of which is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He...
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David Copperfield
In the first chapter of David Copperfield, David’s aunt Betsy Trotwood asks Mrs. Copperfield what she calls her servant girl so that she can summon her. Names are on her mind as she asks this,...
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David Copperfield
Mrs. Steerfoth behaves abominably towards David and Mr. Peggotty when they go to see her in Highgate. They've come to tell her that her son has run off with Emily. In those days, such an elopement...
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David Copperfield
David Copperfield says that his lessons with Mr. Murdstone, his stepfather, were "the death-blow of my peace, and a grievous daily drudgery and misery." He was extremely apprehensive before being...
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David Copperfield
In David Copperfield, Dickens uses first-person point of view, an autobiographical style, and careful characterization of his protagonist as his key narrative techniques. These techniques are...
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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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David Copperfield
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
In David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Miss Betsey Trotwood is David Copperfield's eccentric, sharp-tongued great-aunt (on his father's side) who seriously disliked and distrusted men....
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David Copperfield
David, until the age of ten, grows up in comfortable middle-class circumstances. First, he is raised with kindness and indulgence by his mother and Peggotty, and even after his mother marries Mr....
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David Copperfield
Uriah Heep in David Copperfield is one of the least appealing characters that Charles Dickens created. Although he does not, on the outside, seem evil, Uriah’s obsequious personality hides his...
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David Copperfield
When David begins school at Salem House, James Steerforth takes him under his wing (Chapter 7). David is enthralled by Steerforth’s winning ways and cannot see how selfish and manipulative the...
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David Copperfield
In the story, Peggotty is angry with David's mother because she thinks that the latter is making some very poor choices. In chapter 2, Peggotty tries to reason with Mrs. Copperfield. She tells Mrs....
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David Copperfield
Mr. Murdstone is David Copperfield's wicked stepfather. He marries David's mother when the boy is conveniently away at the coast. When David returns home, he's in for a nasty surprise, because his...
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David Copperfield
In chapter 6, Steerforth arranges a "banquet" in the dormitory room he and David share with other schoolboys at David's new boarding school. Steerforth manages the banquet by using all the money...
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David Copperfield
The moment you're referring to occurs in chapter 8 of the novel, when David is home from school for the holidays. David throws Miss Murdstone into a state of "violent consternation" when he "took...
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David Copperfield
Poor young David's treated abominably at Salem House. But then, that was always the idea. His wicked stepfather Mr. Murdstone sent him there precisely because he knew it would be a living hell for...
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David Copperfield
Miss Betsey Trotwood has become so disillusioned with men after her unfortunate experiences with a violent husband that she wishes to have nothing to do with her beloved nephew, David Copperfield...
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David Copperfield
Miss Betsey Trotwood shows up in the beginning pages of the novel before David is born, and she doesn't appear again until David runs away to her. David initially learns about her through his...
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David Copperfield
Salem House is an absolute nightmare for David. It's more like a prison camp than a school, run by the cruel, sadistic Mr. Creakle, who's been instructed by Mr. Murdstone to beat David as often as...
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David Copperfield
After Miss Betsey Trotwood decides to take charge of her grand-nephew David's education, she enrolls him at Doctor Strong’s school in Canterbury. She also decides he should be called Trotwood, as...
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David Copperfield
We learn early in the novel that Mrs. Clara Copperfield is very timid and sad, and very doubtful of ever coming alive out of the trial that was before her . . . . She is sad because her husband...
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David Copperfield
David Copperfield's mother is a kind and gentle woman. But she is also too frail for this world; it is no wonder that David describes her as an angel. Her meek and timid nature makes it all too...
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David Copperfield
While David is at boarding school, his March birthday arrives. He is summoned to the school parlor. He happily anticipates a hamper of treats from Peggotty and hurries off to receive them. What...
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David Copperfield
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
The pleasant surprise David receives can be found in Chapter 7. After an especially tense exchange between Mr. Mell, Steerfoth, and Mr. Creakle, David is despondent. For his part, Steerforth has...
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David Copperfield
It is a quotation from Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." It is a way of showing learning. The line itself refers to a cemetery, where all the ancestors of a specific small...
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David Copperfield
David Copperfield starts in Blunderstone Rookery, a house in Suffolk England, but really is set all over. At different parts during the novel, Copperfield is in London, Yarmouth, Canterbury, and...
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David Copperfield
When David Copperfield's mother was pregnant with him, Betsey Trotwood was certain that she'd give birth to a little girl. In the days before pre-natal scans, all that people had to fall back on to...
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David Copperfield
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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David Copperfield
There are few characters in literature easier to hate than Mr. Murdstone and his loathsome sister, Miss Murdstone. As David Copperfield notes: I knew . . . that he could mould her pliant nature...
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David Copperfield
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 Copperfield
David Copperfield at this stage of the novel has been sent by his stepfather, Mr. Murdstone, to work in his wine warehouse under terrible conditions. However, he is lodging with the Micawber...
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David Copperfield
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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David Copperfield
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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David Copperfield
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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David Copperfield
Miss Betsey Trotwood, to give her full name, is David Copperfield's great-aunt. She's one of the most sympathetic characters in the book, and makes a refreshing change from the many cruel,...
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David Copperfield
Young David is sent by his wicked stepfather, Mr. Murdstone, to school at Salem House. It's a grim-looking place in an advanced stage of decay. There are no boys there; they've all gone home for...
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David Copperfield
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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David Copperfield
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 them...
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David Copperfield
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 Charles...
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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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David Copperfield
There are many autobiographical elements in David Copperfield. First of all, look at the protagonist's initials: "D.C." They are an inversion of Dickens's own initials. As a small boy, poor David...
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David Copperfield
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...
