David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Essay -- English Literature

David Copperfield by Charles DickensDavid Copperfield charts a unretentive boys wretched childhood and hisprogress to a successful novelist and his purpose true love along theway. The author made a romantic effort to be realistic and thuscaptured the essence of all parts of kind-hearted life in the pages of thisbook. David Copperfield is the main character of the novel, but he isnot the hero of the novel.David, a fatherless child born in a little village in VictorianEngland is deeply attached to his mother and his nurse Peggotty. Hisworld turns upside down when his mother marries a man by the advert ofMurdstone. The pain that his stepfather and his murdering woman of asister inflict upon David leads to his untimely loss of innocence.David is sent to Salem House a school where he is forced to standunder the brutal regime of Mr. Creakle. Soon he loses his belovedmother and is provided for by his stepfather to work as a labourerat a store in London. David feels his hopes of growin g up to be alearned and distinguished man crushed in his bosom. Disguste...