David Copperfield Study Guide

Characters Of D.C.

I need to know one sentence about each important character in the story. Can you help me?

Posted By alexa c #97173 at Jun 15, 2009 10:52 AM in David Copperfield || 1 reply

Marriage

Chapter 53: Even I have trouble with Dickens’s point of view—that Dora is better off dead, then a disappointment to her husband. Were we intended to accept this point of view as wise? Knowing what we do of his marriage to, and attitude toward, Katherine, I wonder if she interpreted Copperfield as a statement that she too would have been better off dead, because she was not a satisfactory spouse for Dickens.

Posted By ken b #87475 at May 25, 2009 8:06 AM in David Copperfield || 0 replies

End of Chapter 8

What are we to take away from (other than sadness) the final scene, when David's mother holds up David's brother for him to see and stands there motionless looking at David.

Dickens is careful to emphasize the motionlessness--it's one of the many powerful images in this book. Clara knows she is dying (her remarks to Peggotty that Peggotty won't have to wait long before she is free to marry). Is Clara saying to her son, Remember your brother? What is she saying by this gesture.

Posted By ken b #87475 at Apr 05, 2009 12:30 PM in David Copperfield || 0 replies