對于大衛(wèi)科波菲爾中人物的形象分析

1、An An alysis of ImageDavid CopperfieldinChapter 1In troducti onDavid Copperfield , the masterpiece ofDicke ns, was asemi-autobiographical work. In May1849 to November1850, the installment was published. In the preface, Dicke ns said: It is my favorite child. ”The novel depicted Davids experiences wh

2、ich were filled with sufferi ngs and laughters. Dicke ns portrayed the colorful picture of British society, the typical image of different social classes, especially the en dless struggle of David in the face of adversity which left a deep impression on us. David was unable to endure the abuse of hi

3、s stepfather, bit ing the fin gers of his stepfather, savagely beate n. As a result, he was locked in a boarding school. After his mother died, he was sent to the factory as a child by his stepfather. From then on, he lived a hard life, without eno ugh to eat or wear and suffered all kinds of abuse

4、and torture. However, David did not succumb to the mercy of fate, pain stak in gly, and fin ally found his aunt Betsey. The kin d-hearted aunt shelter adopted him and let him go to a better school. Whe n he knew that Aunt Betsey was ban krupted, but in stead, he studied dilige ntly with persevera ne

5、e all kinds of abuse and torture. Fin ally, after making efforts, he becamea writer and achieved success. At the sametime, other characters were clear and vivid. Peggotty was a nurse who took care of David and David s mother carefully, she was remarkably loyal. Outwardly, aunt Betsey appeared a seve

6、re woman,but she showed that she was kind by loving David and others. In addition,Ham was noble, brave and honest.Mr.Murdstones was fierce and cruel. Steerforth was selfish and arrogant.Introduction to the AuthorDicke ns was the main represe ntative of realism literature in the 19th cen tury. The ar

7、t of witty words, nuan ced psychological an alysis and realism were combined together closely in his works. He was particularly famous for his vivid comic characterizationsand social criticism. He wasthe first author who had writte n of the poor with fidelity and sympathy. His works were famous duri

8、ng novels of the Victorian age and among the great classics in all fictio n.Dicke ns was born in February, 1812, at Lan dport, Portsmouth. He was the sec ond of eight childre n. His father was a clerk, hardwork ing but imprudent, later caricatured as Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield. In 1822, the f

9、amily moved to London, where Charles had to leave school to support his impoverished family. In 1824, his father was put into prison for debt. At the age of 12, Dicke ns was sent to going to work at a factory.He wrappedand labeled for 6 shilli ngs a week. After work, he wan dered through the streets

10、 of London, en thralled by the sight of the dockyards, the files of conv icts, and vast sect ions of the city in habited by the poor. These bitter days remained in his memoryand later found expression in his works.Dicke ns was able to retur n to school because a small legacy helped release his fathe

11、r from prison. He was an avid reader and spent muchtime in the reading room of the British Museum. Although he later returned to school for a time, these experiences left a permanent imprint on the soul of Charles Dicke ns. Even many years later, he had become a successful author, he could not bear

12、t o talk about it, or be rem in ded of his family s ignominy.At the age of fiftee n, Dicke ns bega n work ing as an office boy for a law firm. He taught himself and he became a reporter for courts of Doctors Commoiin 1828. The dull routine of the legal profession never in terested him, so he became

13、a n ewspaper reporter for theMirror of parliame nt , the True Sun, and fin ally for the Morni ng Chro nicle. (Joh n Forster, were later his closest friend and biographer, was also employed at the True Sun.) By the age of twen ty, Dicke ns was one of the best parliame ntary reporters all the En gla n

14、d.By this time, Dicke ns was enjoying the luxurious life he had dreamed of as a child. In 1850, he published the last in stallme nts ofDavidCopperfield, a partly autobiographical no vel that was his favorite.The In troduct ion to the Backgro undSocial backgrou nd“Like so many parents I hav e a favor

15、ite child in my heart,” wroteCharles Dicke ns. And his n ameis David Copperfield. Here, Dicke ns made good use of his own life experience to expose the social evils that were prevale nt in Victoria nEn gla nd and were the miseries of child-labor, thetyranny in schools, the debtors pris on, as well a

16、s the cruelty and immortality and the treachery. Thus the novel was not merely a personal record, but a broad picture of the society of the author s day.David Copperfield was a novel written in first-person point of view.It was sometimes referred to as an apprenticeshipnovel because itcentered on th

17、e period in which a young person grew up. The type of novels was pion eered by Joha nn Wolfga ng von Goethe (1749-1832) in his no vel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre ( Wilhelm Meisters Appre nticeship). Dicke ns based the book in part on the difficult early years of his own life. The n arratio n cha nged

18、 n ames, locales, and other details of Dicke ns s life.For example, whe n Dicke ns was only a child, he had to leave school to work in a factory. In the novel, David Copperfield had to leave school to work in a warehouse wash ing and labeli ng bottles used in the wine trade.David s in itials (D.C.)

19、were, of course, the reverse ofDicke ns s(C.D.).Dicke ns was a master at draw ing memorablecharacters. Somewere simple and uncomplicated, like Barkis, Creakle, Murdstone, and Clara Peggotty. Others were complex, like David Copperfield. Throughout the no vel, he befriended the wealthy and charming Ja

20、mes Steerforth, ignoringhisdevious and malevolent side. At the same time, he befriendedthegood-hearted Tommy Traddles and the humble Peggottys. These two worlds, the world of Steerforth and the world of Steerforth and his family, both attracted David, and his immaturity decided what should constitut

21、e his own world. To bring his characters to life, Dicke ns inv ested them with clearly defi ning virtues or vices and described the characters in a way that en abled the readers to picture them at the sce nes in which they appeared.Novel s backgroundOf all the Dicke ns no vels, David Copperfield ref

22、lected the eve nts of Dicke ns own life the most. As for David, sufferi ng in the past was adequately made up for a rich, happy marriage and a successful literary career, just like Dicke ns himself, and the world was still full of hope and sunshine. The plot construction was rather loose, but it als

23、o excelled in its vivid image. The narration of novel in detail was also worth mentioning, which gave the work truthfulness to the real life.What we could add to was the way in which Dicke ns time and time aga in dealt with the progress of a male hero who, as with David inDavidCopperfield (1849-50)

24、and Pip in Great Expectatio ns (1860-1), came to terms with world as the middle-class values. At the same time, however, Dicke ns heroes ofte n have un comfortable doubles: David Copperfield was shadowed by Heep and Steerforth, both of whom revealed the kind of dark sexual urge that David attempted

25、to conceal or deny in his own life. It was as if, i n a new middle-class code, Dicke ns was equally aware of the precariousness or vulnerability of the new respectable social conception of the self, of the buried life that was hidden beneath the veneer of polite mann ers.Dueto the early success, the

26、 public not only gave Dicke ns an assura nee that made sure in creas ing powers of poetic expressi on and n arrative tech niq ue, but also the con fide nee to dem on strate his priorities to a point where they con tradicted the social assumpti ons of many of his readers. All his later no vels, excep

27、tA Tale of Two Citie s, prese nted a criticism of the most fun dame ntal in stitutio ns of the Victoria n En gla nd.Although David was ignorant of Steerforth s treachery, wewere aware from the momentwe met Steerforth that he didn t deserve of praise which David felt toward him. David didn t know why

28、 he hated Heep or why he trusted a boy with a don key cart who stole his money and left him in the road, but it was possible for him to realize Heep s in here nt evil andthe boy s real inten ti on. In David s first -pers on n arrati on, Dicke ns conv eyed the wisdom of the older man implicitly, thro

29、ugh the eyes of a child.Chapter 2Literature Review of the NovelSome Scholars Views on the NovelScholars believed that David Copperfields careers, friendships,loveand life, were most highly in flue need by Dicke ns experie nces, as well as his time working as a child. Davids involvement with the law

30、profession and later his career as a writer mirror the experie nces of Dicke ns. Many of Davids frie nds were based on people who Dicke ns actually kn ew, and Davids wives, Agnes Wickfield and Dora, were believed to be based upon Dicke ns attachme nt to Mary Hogarth. Dicke ns kee nly felt his lack o

31、f education during his time at that factory, and according to the Forster biography, it was from these times that he drew Davids working period.British writer Somerset Maugham regarded the book as truly a masterpiece of literary works.One of America n literature conno isseurs recomme nded the no vel

32、 as one hun dreds of the 20th cen tury, disti nguishi ng En glish no vel.The famous Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy, said that the book was the best one amongall the English novels and it could help people to build a perfect pers on ality.“ David Copperfield was filled with characters of the most ast on

33、ishing variety, vivid ness, and origi nality,” no ted SomersetMaugham. “They are not realistic and yet they abound with life. There n ever were such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. ” The story was told almost entirely f

34、rom the point view of the first person narrator,David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dicke ns no vel to do so.Dicke ns based the book in part on the difficult early years of his own life.Mai n Views of Dicke ns IdeaIn flue need by Carlyle, Dicke ns lear ned to direct his no vel to a questi o

35、ning of social priorities and in equalities, to a distrust of institutions, particularly defunct or malfunctioningones, and to apressure for action and earn est ness He was prone to take up issues, and to campaig n aga inst what he saw as in justice or desuetude, using ficti on in his novel. He was

36、not alone in his own time, but his name continued to be popularly associated with good causes and with remedies because he was quite the wittiest and he has had the most persuasive, and the most in flue ntial voice.Dicke ns was faithful to the teach ing, and to the gen eral framework, his thought, h

37、is acti on and above all, for his writi ng, n evertheless. A critical awareness that there was something deeply wrong with the society in which he lived disclosed the nature of a novel and gave its distinet political edge. Dicke nsno vels weremultifarious, digressive and humorous.In an importa nt wa

38、y, they reflected the n ature of Victoria n urba n society with all its conflicts and disharmonies, its eccentricities and its con strict ions, its en ergy and its fertility, both physical and intellectual. But the standard pattern in his novels was the basic conflict between moneyon the one hand, a

39、nd loves on the other hand. What this conflict usually revealed was that the people who have greatest love for their fellow humanswere also the ones who were most hurt by the world of mon ey, simply because money was power.In his no vels, the people who possessed most money and most powerseemedincap

40、able of love, whereas the people who were capable of love were remarkably ofte n both poor and powerless. And yet, this gloomy view was emerged by Dicke ns comic way of deali ng with his characters.Chapter 3The Image of main character inDavid CopperfieldThe Image of DavidUn yieldi ng and dilige nee

41、of David CopperfieldDavid Copperfield was a kind-hearted, honest, and hard working, pragmatic and progressive intellectual typically. Since David s childhood, his father died. Although his mother remarried, she died before long with his stepfather abuse. At that time, he was sent to boarding school,

42、 ravaged, and then was sent to the factory as anapprentice humiliation position. He left the factory to the home of aunt Betsey who adopted him and let him study law. Then, he tried his best to lear n day after day. At the same time, his character matured in suffering, frustration, and ultimately on

43、 the right path in life. Later he became a writer, and married with his girlfrie nd. For him, he had acquiredmuchknowledge in life through the wrong ideas, funny habits, sad moment and the depressing day, and remembered his aunts words in heart,“whateveryou do and when ever you do it, you can n ever

44、 be humble, n ever be hypocritical or cruel. ”He thought of this sentence, which alwaysen couraged himself to be strong and seize the hard-on opport un ity to struggle in life.Both the hardships and bitterness in his orphan s times or always struggle in his adult time, having experieneed calamities

45、and misfortunes, David tasted the joy and warmth of the earth. By his own sin cerity, forthright pers on ality, positive spirit, as well as the purity of love to people in his heart, he persisted and fin ally succeeded.Innocence and kindn ess of David Copperfield.David began to love Emily when they

46、accompanied each other in the days in Yarmouth. As for a child, the affection was a more feelings. Neither of them worried about the future or any other troubles at that time. The best was love in that they were innocent. On the way to Sale n House, the writer men ti oned an in terested in cide nt.W

47、ith the “ simple con fide nee andnatural relianee of a child upon superior years” , David was used byServa nt William. David was bound to lack of some worldly wisdom and was only an innocent child.Whe n David worked at Murdest one and Grin by, he met Mr.Micawber whose clothes were shabby, and had on

48、ly a shirt collar. However, David did not laugh at him. On the con trary, whe n he lear ned about the tragedy and realized Micawber s financial difficulties,he intended to offer some money to Mr.Micawber in order to help him tide over the difficulties, though he himself was poor at that moment. Inno

49、cence was the most valuable and shinning characteristic of David Copperfield.In David s life, although he met somewicked people like Mr. and Miss Murdest one, Mr. Creakle and Uriah Heep, he also gained a lot of friends and helpers whomadehim kind-hearted. That was to say, though he had known some ba

50、d qualities of the people, David rema ined what he used to be. In Mr. Murdestone s house, except his mother, Peggotty was the only one who loved David, and differentfrom his mother, she was able to protect David.Whe n David was treated badly by Mr. and Miss Murdest one, Peggotty tried to comfort him

51、 at night secretly. And when David was sent away from home, Peggotty wrote letters so as to en courage him.As we all know , Peggotty was a servant in David s family, but what she did was far more than a servant. What important was whenDavid smother misun derstood her, Peggotty still took it for gran

52、 ted that she should protect and help David and Davids poor mother. It was her loyalty and kindness that was a great help to the development of David. And David was grateful to her, so he permitted the carrier Barkis to marry her, giving happ in ess to Peggotty.Cruelty and tendern ess of David Coppe

53、rfieldDavid s complicated image accounted for the contradiction of the plot of the novel and which existed over the development of it. For David, when he realized his love for Agnes for the first time, he also showed great tenderness at the moment. David, especially as a young manin love, could be f

54、oolish and roma ntic. As he grew up, however, he developed a more mature point of view and searched for a lover who would change and help him grow. David fully matured as an adult whe n he expressed the sen time nt that he valued Agnes s gentleness and quietness over all else in his life.Stability a

55、nd maturity of David CopperfieldAfter experiencing manydifficulties and sufferings, David had becomeStability in his adulthood. As for his profession, David went on along a right road. He engaged in literature and was interested in what he did. David felt more and more con fide nt in the success of

56、his career. David knew that his dream came true by his years of hard work.And whe n his wife died, David decided to give his most sin cere love to Agnes who was his good an gel. However, he was hesita nt before Agn es. He dared not to tell her I love you. Because he knew what the three words meant,

57、he did not want to hurt Agnes. As for David, there was no doubt that Agnes was his best choice. For all the efforts David took, he deserved the love of Agn es. With Agn es love and guida nee, David would make his life more comfortable and he himself became mature and steady.David also found true fri

58、e ndship in his life. His old classmate, Tradle, who at school was the merriest friend of all his classmates, appeared at the end of the novel as a helper of David Copperfield. He was what we called a true frie nd David n eeded.3.2 The Image of other CharactersColdness and cruelty of Miss .Murdstone

59、sThe bane of the childhood of David, stepfather and Sister Miss Murdst on es character was extremely cold and cruel. I n Davids memory, when he met Miss Murdstone in the first time, she was a gloomy-looking lady; dark, like her brother, whomshe greatly resembled in face and voice; and with very heav

60、y eyebrows, n early meeti ng over her large no se, as if, being disabled by the wrongs of her sex from weari ng whiskers, she had carried them to that acco unt. Whe n she paid for the coachma n, she took her moneyout of a hard steel purse, and she kept the purse in a very jail of bag which hung upon