An Analysis of the Critical Realism in David Copperfield

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.286How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Charles Dickens; critical realism; David Copperfield; bourgeois society

Abstract

Charles Dickens, one of the most famous representative critical realism writers in English, published a profusion of novels, which plays an important role in English literature after Shakespeare. David Copperfield is one of Charles Dickens’ masterpieces, telling a boy’s story that he goes through brambles and shadow and ultimately finds his happiness and souls harbor, exposing the evilness of the bourgeois society and depicting vivid social life of the Victorian era in 19th century. It can be dismissed as an encyclopedia of the Victorian times, reflecting the social issues in that times, which provides us with plenty of valuable literary sources to know about aspects of the bourgeois society. From it, a conclusion can be drawn that David Copperfield eulogized human nature kindness, beauty and truth and at the same time criticized the imperfect state institution.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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