David Copperfield From a Suppressed Boy To Success

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“David Copperfield” is a young boy`s passion to growup to be a respectable, learned, useful member of the society. His hardwork, courage, honesty and sensibility take him to heights despite harsh opposing circumstances. David is portrayed as the only child born after his father’s death and becomes victim of bad fortune from the beginning however his real sufferings starts when her mother re-marries. The scenes of David boyhood are among the best imagined in the novel. They are woven in such a way by Charles dickens that it seems novel is written by a child. David describes his childhood in these words: “I am glad to recollect that when carrier began to move, my mother ran out at the gate and called to him to stop, that she might kiss me once more. I am glad to dwell upon the earnestness and love with which she lifted up her face to mine, and did so.” But soon this happy picture of David’s childhood is spoiled by his step father. Mr. Murdstone accompanied by his sister with his heartless cruelty. In one of the scenes Mr. Murdstone beats him as a result he bites his finger off. But rebellion does not seem a successful idea for David. He pays for it and sends to Salem house where he has experienced another kind of tyranny. In many modern readers point of view his step father is not solely responsible for his sufferings but his mother too. She is just a silent spectator on David miseries. She never comes forward to help him out. Perhaps Dickens shows us a view of Victorian society when women are suppressed and wholly dependent on men. Neither at the same time Dickens allowed his hero complains about his mother nor does has he admired her. The bond between children and parents seems a primarily concern of the novelist. David is deprived of attention when it is really needed. When he learns of his mother death at Salem house he is over come with grief
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