Dickens’ Critical Realism
in David Copperfield
ABSTRACT
Charles Dickens, as one of the representatives of critical realism in Queen Victoria, shows great sympathy with poor people and working class. In David Copperfield his critical realism outlook is clearly emerged on David Copperfield. He praises the kindness, honesty and diligence, and places good hope on them; criticizes the vices, hypocrisy and laziness, and comments on them.
摘 要
作为维多利亚女王时期批判现实主义的典型代表，查尔斯·狄更斯表现了对贫穷人民及工人阶级的深切同情。在《大卫·科波菲尔》一书中， 他的批判现实主义观念在大卫·科波菲尔身上得到了透彻的体现。他赞扬善良、诚实、勤奋，并对他们寄以厚望；他批判邪恶、伪善、懒惰，并对他们深刻鞭挞。
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
Being one of the greatest representatives of the English critical realism in Queen Victoria, Dickens gave us a most vivid picture of everyday life, of the ordinary people of his time. In David Copperfield, he criticized the ruling class and the capitalist society.
II. Dickens’ Critical Realism in David Copperfield
1. The criticism to the miserable family life
2. The criticism to the children’s education
A. The criticism to the family education
B. The criticism to the school education
3. The criticism to capitalism and the capitalist society
A. The criticism to capitalism
B. The criticism to the capitalist society
III. Conclusion
Dickens’ Critical Realism
in David Copperfield
I. Introduction
In the long period of domination of Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens was the most popular and internationally known as an English novelist. Being the greatest representative of the English critical realism, he gave us a most vivid picture of everyday life, of the ordinary people of his time. He created a large number of life characters, well known, full of life and unforgettable. He had suffered so bitterly himself as a child and had seen so much evilness that burned with the desire to fight it to the end. While representing a truthful account of the hardships born by poor people, he believed that a hard-working and honest man could achieve his little personal business under capitalism. The success of one great novelist would rely on the carrier: his works, to support himself.
Charles Dickens wrote many a novel such as The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens used his pen to mould a typical figure of all stratum in the Victorian age: Mr. Pickwick, the benevolent gentleman; Oliver Twist, the good lucky young man; Mr. Grandgrad, the victim of his own ridiculous utilitarian philosophy and Mr. Manetle, the innocent doctor who witnessed the French Revolution. All above novels made an important role in Charles Dickens’ successful career. But David Copperfield, a novel based on his early life experiences, is Dickens’ satisfied reminiscence of his life way and literature reappearance of his personal history. Like Dickens, David works as a child, pasting labels onto bottles. David also becomes first a law clerk, then a reporter, and finally a successful novelist. Mr. Micawber is a satirical version of Dickens’s father, a likable man who can never scrape together the money he needs. Many of the secondary characters spring from Dickens’s experiences as a young man in financial distress in London. So we can see that Dickens liked this novel very much. No wonder Dickens wrote, “of all my books I like this the best; like many fond parents I have a favorite child and his name is David Copperfield”.
David Copperfield, the strong-willed young man who relied on himself suffered a lot and at last became a successful novelist like Dickens. Through the description of David Coperfield, Charles Dickens made a fierce and harsh attack upon the bourgeois society, and at the same time shows deep sympathy with the benevolent, the poor, the depressed and the innocent. In this book the good would surpass the evil, the truth would conquer the false and all kind-hearted people would embrace the endowments of life.
II. Dickens’ Critical Realism
The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and the beginning of fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying characterization of bourgeois reality. As a representative of critical realism, Charles Dickens was the greatest English realist of the time. With a striking force and truth fullness, he creates pictures of bourgeois civilization, describing the misery and sufferings of common people.
The greatness of Charles Dickens lies not only in their satirical portrayal of bourgeois and in the exposure of the greed and hypocrisy of the ruling classes, but also in their profound humanism that is revealed in their sympathy for the laboring people. He creates positive characters that are quite alien to vices, the rich and who are chiefly common people. The little David, the family of Peggotty and Micawber are vivid characters and representatives of the laboring class.
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