Copperfield, the orphan who wrote this story, suffered many hardships in his life. With the help of some well-intentioned people in many ways and through indomitable struggle, he finally achieved career achievements and family happiness. The joys and sorrows of the people around Copperfield. Revealed the truth of the society at that time in many ways. Similar to Copperfield, Dickens also experienced the bitterness of the world since he was a child.
The family is poor. His father once took him to a hotel to perform a show to earn money. 10 years old, the whole family moved to the debtor's prison. 1 1 years old, he took on heavy housework. When he was an apprentice in the shoe polish workshop, his employer put him in the window for public surgery because of his exquisite packaging technology, which left a permanent scar in his heart, thus generating deep sympathy and determination for the unfortunate children.
The determination to get rid of poverty. This is one of the reasons for his successful creation of david copperfield. As his last and most intimate evaluation of his works, "Like many doting parents, I also have a favorite child in my heart. His name is david copperfield. "
Dickens is known as "the king of English novels". He wrote diligently, even when he died, he was still writing novels. After his death, he left us a lot of literary treasures. Starting from his masterpiece The Biography of Pickwick, during his 34-year creative career, he wrote 14 novels (one of which was unfinished), many short stories, essays, travel notes, plays and so on. Representative works are Dong.
Bei and Son, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Li Du, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. In Britain, his reputation has surpassed that of the Prime Minister, and he has gained a worldwide reputation.
Dickens also shows his unique artistic personality in this novel. Because it is a semi-autobiographical novel, the image of the protagonist David is particularly prominent because it blends into the writer's complex state of mind. This has changed the strong fictional characteristics of Dickens' early novels and has a unique style. David is an upright intellectual, who gradually rose from the bottom to the peak of his career and love by personal struggle. The author focuses on transmission.
Characters' looks, words, actions, clothes, habits and even some quirks are all used to write characters' different identities and personalities. David's character grows and develops in a meticulous, real and cordial way, which is hard to see in some novels that win by plot. In addition, the greatest artistic feature of the novel is that the author narrates and describes life in a kind and clear way, and people read it.
David seems to be having a heart-to-heart conversation with us. There is no thrilling struggle scene like a tale of two cities, and there is no tortuous and bizarre story. It only allows readers to understand the features of the times, know the characters in the works and cultivate their own thoughts and feelings through daily trivia, which determines that the narrative language and dialogue between characters in the novel are vivid and beautiful, but it is fascinating to talk about. In addition, in the scene,
It is also unique in the description of things and the psychological description of characters. It is really a masterpiece in Dickens' novel series.
Dickens' influence is far-reaching. He kept pioneering and innovating, trying one novel after another: tramp, historical novel, social novel, moral fable, personal growth novel and even mystery novel. Every stroke of his pen is full of vitality and sincere feelings. He has achieved complete success in every novel style, and fourteen novels have entered the ranks of classical masterpieces in his life.
Column. Especially the book david copperfield had a great influence at that time. Because of the vivid descriptions of child labor, workhouses, private schools and slums, strong public opinion calling for social reform was mobilized, which directly prompted the British Parliament to pass various legislations. In addition, the novel makes full use of exaggeration, deformation, implication, symbol and even absurdity, and is full of social criticism. in this
On the other hand, he was a pioneer of Dostoevsky and Kafka. Because of this, david copperfield has become one of the best-selling masterpieces in the world. He himself is also called the greatest master of critical realism in Britain, and Thackeray rated him as a "great genius".
Just like there is an endless Shakespeare in the world, Dickens will always maintain the same charm. We need to know him and his novels. The best starting point is undoubtedly his semi-autobiographical novel david copperfield.
Content summary:
My father died before david copperfield was born. Miss Menstruation Bessie, her father, longed for her nephew and daughter-in-law to have a girl, but she gave birth to a lovely boy. She left angrily because the boy couldn't inherit her name. David spent his childhood with his beautiful young mother Clara and his loyal maid Peggotty.
Soon, a man named Maud Si Tong took a fancy to David's mother's meager wealth and coaxed her into falling in love with sweet words. After marriage, my mother found that this Mr Maud Si Tong was a stingy and cruel guy. David's mother sent David to Peggotty's brother for a while before remarriage. There, Mr. Peggotty transformed an old boat into a cabin by the sea. He and his niece Amy
Li and her nephew Haimu live in it. Their families are harmonious and happy. David spent a warm and unforgettable time here.
When David came to Maud Si Tong's house, he felt very uncomfortable. Maud Si Tong hates David so much that David's mother is not allowed to show concern for him. David's mother also gradually weakened under his torture. Once, the stubborn David was defeated by Maud Si Tong. He stood up and bit Maud Si Tong's hand, and then he was immediately sent to Salem boarding school. That is a shabby school. There, David is fierce
Living a miserable life under the discipline of our headmaster. Fortunately, he established friendship with Tommy and James.
Soon, David's mother died in childbirth. When he was sent home, Maud Si Tong regarded him as a thorn in his side, and soon sent David, 65,438+00 years old, to a company in London as a child worker who washed bottles. Peggotty was also fired and married the coachman Bagis. David lives in Mr Micawber's house. Mr Micawber has many children and leads a hard life, but he prefers to dream of making money. Nothing, but the whole family lives in negativity.
Debtor's prison. David lives a half-starved life in the company, and he is very sympathetic to the Micawber family's situation. After breaking up with them, he felt lonely and decided to flee to Aunt Bessie.
David suffered a lot along the way and was robbed of his box and money, but he finally found Aunt Bessie. Bessie, who is eccentric but kind-hearted, took him in. Send him to one of the best schools in London. Meanwhile, David stays with Bessie's lawyer, Wickfield. He established a deep friendship with Ennis, Wickfield's daughter. Wakefield has an employee named Heep, who is hypocritical and modest.
That humble and sweaty handshake made David very disgusted.
David/Kloc-graduated from middle school at the age of 0/7, and menstruation asked him to travel before choosing a job. David met his childhood friend James on the trip, and they went to visit Mr Peggotty together. Emily, adopted by Peggotty, has grown into a beautiful girl and just got engaged to loyal harmony. But not long after, under the temptation of James, Emily betrayed her adoptive father and Harmony and eloped with him. love
Emily's slip brought great pain to Mr. Peggotty, and he was determined to travel all over the world to get Emily back.
David returned to London and chose a career as a lawyer. My aunt offered him money to find a trainee position in a law firm. At this time, he met his childhood friend Ennis, who still cares about David as always. She told David that Heep had climbed higher and higher in wakefield's law firm by despicable means. Ennis's father is an old fool. In order to take care of his reputation, he accidentally fell into the trap of Heep.
He had to let Heep fool around. Not only that, David found himself plotting against Ennis. David is very disgusted with this.
David once visited his boss's house and fell in love with Spenlow's youngest daughter Dora. Soon they were secretly engaged. Then Aunt Bessie told him that she was broke. In order to repay her kindness, David found a part-time job to support his aunt Bessie, although he may be incompetent. But the salary of this part-time job is very low, so David set out to study and strive for a record of interviewing congressional debates.
This position.
Mr. Spenlow was very angry at the news of their engagement. He thinks it beneath him that his daughter marries David. So he called David and forbade Dora to see him again. Unexpectedly, Spenlow died of illness the next day, leaving no legacy. David then proposed to Dora and got the consent of her two aunts.
David soon became a journalist. He married Dora at the age of 18. However, Dora never seems to grow up. Their life is not satisfactory. David meets Mr Micawber, who is Heep's secretary. But Micawber always seems to be hiding something from everyone. This caught David's attention. Later, Mr Micawber finally could not help being condemned by his conscience; One day, he exposed his privacy in public. It turns out that heep used it
His poverty induced him to take part in the activities of framing Mr. Wickfield. Heep confessed all the crimes before Micawber produced the evidence. Wakefield also got rid of Heep's control and recovered all his property. Heep was also behind Bessie's bankruptcy, and he was forced to repay all Bessie's investments. Later, Heep was put in prison. Aunt Bessie gave a sum of money to help Mr Micawber.
Help him start a career.
At the same time, Mr. Peggotty found Emily through difficulties and obstacles. Emily was fed up with James and kicked her off to London. Just before departure, Mr. Peggotty decided to take Emily to Australia to start a new life. Haimu died unfortunately to save a sunken passenger. The boatman turned out to be James, and Emily was heartbroken and regretted her past. In the new living environment,
Her broken heart gradually calmed down. She decided not to get married until her death in memory of Haimu.
By this time, David had become a writer, but Dora was seriously ill and her body was getting weaker. Before the Peggotty family left England, she died unfortunately. Full of grief, David left his hometown and traveled around to ease his pain. Ennis kept in touch with him when he was abroad. Her concern and comfort inspired David to overcome his mental pain again. He thinks Ennis is.
The whole content of his life.
Three years later, David returned to England. He found himself loving Ennis more and more, but it was hard to say. While he was hesitating, he suddenly heard Aunt Bessie say that Ennis was getting married. This prompted David to stop hiding his feelings and decided to have sex with Ennis. In fact, this is just a provocation by Aunt Bessie, in order to promote the marriage between David and Ennis. Ennis was very excited in the face of David's confession.
Constantly; She has always loved David. David later learned that it was Dora's last wish to combine them.
David and Ennis got married. They live with Aunt Bessie. David finally found his own happiness.