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David Copperfield: A Novel Of Hypocrisy, Sexual Degradation, Selfish

David Copperfield: A Novel of Hypocrisy, Sexual Degradation, Selfish Exploitation,
and Fraud


"David Copperfield" is a novel of "Passionate jealousy sniveling hypocrisy
cold hearted fraud, sexual degradation, selfish exploitation and much more; but
the final impression is one of joy tempered and mellowed wisdom" Discuss.

David Copperfield is probably one of the most successful novels of all time.
I believe it has inspired many readers to a full life with great success. The
novel itself is so real that it has even been said to be 'more real than life' I
am one of those who agree and I will try and explain why in the following essay .
The terms used to describe David Copperfield in the question are all very true
in their own respect. This is basically because Dickens chose to write about
life and in life all these terms apply.
By the time that Dickens began writing David Copperfield he was already a
profound author with great popularity. I believe he wanted to portray life as
best he could, he wanted to show what life was to him: and what better way than
a biography closely related to Dickens himself. We could call it a 'Novel of
personal memory' but we have to keep in mind the full original title: 'The
Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield,
the Younger, of Bluderstone Rookery. (Which he never meant to published on any
account.) This complete title strongly suggests that this is one man's story
written for himself. It was also supposed to 'never have been published on any
account.' Later in chap 42 this condition is repeated: 'this manuscript is
intended for no eyes but mine.' Of course this is part of the fiction, after all
we are reading David's story ourselves when we reach this sentence. What is
David Copperfield about? I pose myself this question to help illustrate how much
of an autobiography this book really is, the simplest answer is of course that
it is about David Copperfield himself and his...