David and Agnes then have at least five children, including a daughter named after his great-aunt, Betsey Trotwood | Also, Rosa Dartle's irreducible and angry marginality represents a mysterious threat to his comfortable and reassuring domestic ideology |
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Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction | " Woolf also noted in a letter to Hugh Walpole in 1936, that she is re-reading it for the sixth time: "I'd forgotten how magnificent it is |
Indeed, Dickens had published anonymously, a month after Carlyle's pamphlet on the same subject, "Pet Prisonners".
23Broken by Steerforth's desertion, she does not go back home, but she does eventually go to London | Dialect [ ] Dickens, in preparation for this novel, went to , , and where the Peggotty family resides, but he stayed there for only five hours, on 9 January 1849 |
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' asked the gentleman laughing | She and Traddles are engaged to be married, but her family has made Sophy so indispensable that they do not want her to part from them with Traddles |
The imponderable power of the sea is almost always associated with death: it took Emily's father; will take Ham and Steerforth, and in general is tied to David's "unrest" associated with his Yarmouth experiences.
14Contrary to Charles's frustrated love for Maria Beadnell, who pushed him back in front of his parents' opposition, David, in the novel, marries Dora Spenlow and, with satisfaction ex post facto, writes Paul Davis, virtually "kills" the recalcitrant stepfather | Tedlock, Jr, E W Winter 1955 |
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When you read David Copperfield, you realise how tough life was at that time and how spoilt we are, but also how strong a child can be | Dickens use the whole arsenal of literary tools that are available to the satirist, or rather supplied by his narrator, David, who even directs satire upon himself |
Hence the retrospective chapters and the ultimate recapitulation were written.
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