David Copperfield is a novel that is full of emotions. The story , happy in the beginning, becomes dramatic force when David's mother remarries a man of high position but violent . Dickens masterfully recounts the weakness of a child who is forced to live in an environment of irrational people with excessively rigid Victorian social norms in a patriarchal society where education is based on physical punishment.
The novel makes a perfect portrait of the society of the nineteenth century. It reflects values such as honor feelings like love , true friendship or hatred disguised exacerbated false humility.
The autobiographical sediment that Charles Dickens left in his novel David Copperfield, this book has become the closest of the author. Like Dickens, David Copperfield lived a happy childhood until his luck suddenly changed .
The condition of writer and multiple characters that match the personal experience of the author are coincident in the novel and in real life the same . There are satire and irony in their pages but also anxiety and joy.