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David Copperfield

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David Copperfield	comment	David Copperfield is a coming-of-age tale that follows the title character almost literally from birth to death. In between that is Charles Dickens at his finest...Little David's father dies before he's even born, and his mother Clara dies not many years later, leaving him in the care of Mr. Edward Murdstone, his Wicked Stepfather. Murdstone in turn heartlessly turns little Davey out into the big bad world, first in a Boarding School of Horrors in which he's beaten and humiliated on a regular basis, then to earn his own living in a factory. While navigating Victorian London at the tender age of ten or so, David boards with the Micawbers, a good-natured but completely irresponsible family who make him pawn the silver to buy supper and eventually end up in debtor's prison.Desperate, David runs away, finally reaching a safe haven with his eccentric Aunt Betsey Trotwood - who magnanimously forgives him for not being a girl - and her own... interesting... coterie. It's at this point David meets Uriah Heep, a clerk in the local law office, whose fawning professions of 'umbleness' mask a scheming, vengeful nature. By the time David's graduated high school Uriah's well on his way not only to taking over the business but menacing David's sweet, beautiful best friend Agnes Wickfield, the boss' daughter, with plans for their marriage. In his spare time, Uriah cheats Aunt Betsey out of her fortune just as David's fallen hopelessly in love with his boss' daughter Dora. Even Micawber, now Heep's clerk, is acting strangely. Oh, and over in the main subplot, David's oldest and dearest school friend, James Steerforth, is busily seducing and ruining David's childhood sweetheart, little Emily......do you see a pattern here? It doesn't help that David is by nature a sensitive artistic type who suffers miseries under hardship. Nor that he's so ridiculously gentle and naive (Steerforth dubs him 'Daisy', as in 'fresh as a...') that he's taken advantage of more or less constantly.Nevertheless, in the main, the book reads as a sweet-natured comedy. Good ol' Dave is repeatedly downed but never broken, making it through his crummy life by relying on his imagination and on his true friends, at least one of whom is always to be found standing loyally by his side (albeit how they get there often stretches deep into Contrived Coincidence territory). The valiant but foolish Micawbers, the stalwart seafaring Peggottys, the diamond-in-the-rough Tommy Traddles — they may be eccentric, they may be impecunious, but they're always loveable, as only Dickensian characters can be.Through his involvement in their convoluted adventures, and the lessons in pluck and determination arising therefrom, David finally rises to the top: marrying his One True Love — well, his second after Dora, she's dead by now — having children, launching a successful writing career...A lot of Dickens's books stem from direct experience, but David Copperfield is his most autobiographical tale and his 'favourite child' among his works. David's seemingly over-the-top anguish at being so degraded by factory work has its roots in Dickens' own trauma when at ten his father similarly yanked him out of school and sent him out to augment the family finances (Mr. Micawber is by all accounts an only slightly exaggerated portrait of John Dickens). Writing many years later, as a world-honoured and beloved man, he confided to friends that merely revisiting those memories caused him nearly insupportable pain.Many critics have also hailed it as one of their favorite books, including Tolstoy and Freud. Several of its characters - including Aunt Betsey, villainous Uriah Heep and above all the Micawbers - became Household Names in the 19th-century and are still familiar to some extent today.Adaptations include: Three silent film adaptations, one in 1911, one in 1913, and one in 1922 David Copperfield (1935), a theatrical adaptation, produced by David Selznick and directed by George Cukor. It boasted an invokedAll-Star Cast that included child star Freddie Bartholomew (young David), Basil Rathbone as Mr. Murdstone, Lionel Barrymore as Dan Peggotty, and W. C. Fields as Mr. Micawber. Two lost television adaptations, one by The BBC in 1956 and another in 1966 A 1969 Made-for-TV Movie, starring Robin Phillips as David A 1974 miniseries, starring David Yelland as David A 1986 miniseries, starring Colin Hurley as David David Copperfield (1993), a very loose animated adaptation A 1999 two-part BBC TV adaptation, starring CiarÃ¡n McMenamin (and a pre-Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe) as David, opposite a lineup of British acting royalty including Bob Hoskins as Mr. Micawber, Maggie Smith as Aunt Betsey, Imelda Staunton as Mrs. Micawber, Nicholas Lyndhurst as Heep, Ian Mc Niece as Mr. Dick, and Ian McKellen as Creakle. A 2000 Made-for-TV Movie, starring Hugh Dancy as David The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), which was written and directed by Armando Iannucci and boasts a similarly starry cast, including Dev Patel as David, Gwendoline Christie as Jane Murdstone, Peter Capaldi as Mr. Micawber, Tilda Swinton as Aunty Betsey, Hugh Laurie as Mr. Dick, and Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep. It screened at film festivals in 2019 ahead of a 2020 release date. The trailer can be seen here. Demon Copperhead, a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver that transplants the whole story to 1990s-2000s trailer park Appalachia, and grounds it in the opioid crisis.If it's mentioned anywhere in pop culture, it'll be because the individual has the title confused with the magician. Or, if someone mentions Uriah Heep, they'll confuse that with the British rock band.Can be read here.
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David Copperfield / int_197b546a	type	Scarpia Ultimatum
David Copperfield / int_197b546a	comment	Scarpia Ultimatum: Uriah Heep's ultimate plan is to gain total control of the Wickfields by blackmailing Agnes into marrying him out of concern for her father.
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David Copperfield / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
David Copperfield / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: David grew up with Agnes and views her as his "sister", unaware of her true feelings even though they're obvious to pretty much everyone but him.
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David Copperfield / int_1ddc03c1	type	Breaking Bad News Gently
David Copperfield / int_1ddc03c1	comment	Breaking Bad News Gently: Mrs. Creakle, much more kindhearted than her husband, tries to gently tell David that his mother has died... to the point where she's on the borderline of torturing him by the end.
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David Copperfield / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
David Copperfield / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Played with in James Steerforth, whose handsome, dashing good looks and potent charisma are explicitly discussed as compelling. Unfortunately his failures of self-control leave him far short of his heroic potential.
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David Copperfield / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
David Copperfield / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: It's Dickens. He grew up in one.
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David Copperfield / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
David Copperfield / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: David's mother was "not yet twenty" when she married his father, who was twice her age.
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David Copperfield / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
David Copperfield / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Uriah Heep's ugly physical characteristics—including an unpleasant habit of wringing his dry hands together—are repeatedly emphasized to illustrate his evilness.
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David Copperfield / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
David Copperfield / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: David is capable of absolutely maddening the reader with his obtuseness re: Agnes' feelings.
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David Copperfield / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
David Copperfield / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Played straight with Agnes Wickfield and Uriah Heep, although characters like Steerforth blur the lines somewhat. The dwarf Mrs. Mowcher goes from exemplifying this trope on first appearance to totally subverting it the next.
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David Copperfield / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
David Copperfield / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Mr. Creakle, whose unpleasant fetish for hitting his students in general, amd the chubby ones in particular, is explicitly called out.
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David Copperfield / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
David Copperfield / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Aunt Betsey does this to Murdstone, subtly, when the latter tries to reclaim David from her care: he admits nothing, but they both know she has his real motives pegged, and they aren't pretty.
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David Copperfield / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
David Copperfield / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: David is named after his late father, and renamed Trotwood by Aunt Betsey in homage to the girl he was supposed to be, whom she was prepared to insist would be named after her. Also, one of David and Agnes's daughters is named Dora.
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David Copperfield / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
David Copperfield / int_316e9da2	comment	Mrs. Micawber's defiant (albeit frequently unasked-for) insistence that "I never will desert Mr. Micawber!" achieved the nineteenth-century equivalent of a Memetic Mutation.
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David Copperfield / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
David Copperfield / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Uriah for David. Largely over the girl they both love, Agnes Wickfield.
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David Copperfield / int_34b33a09	type	You Should Have Died Instead
David Copperfield / int_34b33a09	comment	You Should Have Died Instead: The 1999 version has a moment where a distraught,disheveled Murdstone yells at David that he should died instead of Clara and the baby.
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David Copperfield / int_3545b7df	type	Proper Lady
David Copperfield / int_3545b7df	comment	Proper Lady: Agnes Wickfield is pretty much the template of the Victorian feminine ideal.
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David Copperfield / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
David Copperfield / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: But it doesn't go quite according to plan, what with Dora breaking down into sobs, David trying to calm her down, and her yippy little dog barking his head off the entire time. There's a second one at the end of the book.
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David Copperfield / int_39d750cb	type	Hand Rubbing
David Copperfield / int_39d750cb	comment	Hand Rubbing: Uriah Heep is almost certainly the Trope Codifier. His constant rubbing of his hands together is a sign of his true, evil nature.
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David Copperfield / int_3d5c5deb	type	Flat Character
David Copperfield / int_3d5c5deb	comment	Flat Character: Mrs. Micawber is a textbook example of this trope in use. Her sole character trait is her devotion to her husband, but she still plays an important role in a narrative that focuses on the plight of the working class.
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David Copperfield / int_3e16e61c	type	Villain by Default
David Copperfield / int_3e16e61c	comment	Villain by Default: Uriah Heep to a certain extent. Also, again, anybody named Murdstone isn't real likely to end up a noble philanthropist.
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David Copperfield / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
David Copperfield / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: David encounters several of these including Mr. Wickfield, Aunt Betsey, and Mr. Micawber. Also Dan Peggotty to Ham and Emily.
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David Copperfield / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
David Copperfield / int_40cad744	comment	Flower Motifs: David is rather fond of flowers, and most of the characters around him get compared to one at some point. Most notably, Steerforth's Affectionate Nickname for him, "Daisy."
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David Copperfield / int_4412f4d	type	Guess Who I'm Marrying?
David Copperfield / int_4412f4d	comment	Guess Who I'm Marrying?: Clara Copperfield and Mr. Murdstone, through the eyes of young David.
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David Copperfield / int_4441d947	type	The Storyteller
David Copperfield / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: To cope with the Boarding School of Horrors's crap, Steerforth makes young David recount the tales he has learned from his beloved books. Steerforth suggests it purely for his own entertainment, but David later muses that the practice likely helped develope the tendency towards authorship he would later avail himself of.
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David Copperfield / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
David Copperfield / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Betsy Trotwood can be... difficult to approach with all her stubborn eccentricities, but at the core, she is kind and good-natured.
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David Copperfield / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
David Copperfield / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: Mr. Creakle takes the sign warning that David bites away... because the sign gets in the way when a caning needs to be done.
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David Copperfield / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
David Copperfield / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Steerforth is charming, brilliant, and no one but Agnes can keep from adoring him, and yet he's got serious problems in his perception of morality, entitlement, and self-control, due to his over-privileged upbringing.
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David Copperfield / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
David Copperfield / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: several of the lower class characters, and especially Uriah Heep ("We're very umble, mother and me...") Not to mention the Peggottys.
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David Copperfield / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
David Copperfield / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Desperate orphaned David seeks his aunt Betsey, who takes him in and turns his life around.
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David Copperfield / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
David Copperfield / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: The book ends with David having become a successful novelist. Justified, since David is a loose portrait of Dickens himself.
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David Copperfield / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
David Copperfield / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Mrs. Markleham, Annie's mother, who is always pestering Dr. Strong to support her poor relations while making him feel guilty about being too old for her.
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David Copperfield / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
David Copperfield / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Murdstone's verging-on-Mind Rape campaign to teach Clara (and later his unnamed second wife) 'firmness of character', apparently out of some kind of sadistic fetish (one his sister Jane clearly shares, making things that much weirder). Later, when Aunt Betsey points out David might be starting down a similar path with Dora, he immediately flips out.
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David Copperfield / int_4c3a0f69	type	You Know What You Did
David Copperfield / int_4c3a0f69	comment	You Know What You Did: Uriah's 'umble' admission of Annie Strong and Jack Maldon's supposed relationship to Annie's husband.
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David Copperfield / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
David Copperfield / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Good and evil, in Dickens, are largely defined as 'agrees with the author' and 'doesn't agree with the author'. Luckily, he was a warmhearted, generous spirit in most respects, and had a real sense of humour.
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David Copperfield / int_4ee487f2	type	Evil Makes You Ugly
David Copperfield / int_4ee487f2	comment	Evil Makes You Ugly: Uriah Heep is depicted as being physically repulsive.
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David Copperfield / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
David Copperfield / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Little Emily — to the fully Victorian extreme — after escaping from Steerforth.
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David Copperfield / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
David Copperfield / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: The ugliness under Rosa Dartle's uber-accommodating personality is symbolised by the scar on her lip — given to her by Steerforth throwing a hammer as a spoiled child — which flares red when she's upset.
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David Copperfield / int_4fa68c72	type	Like Parent, Like Spouse
David Copperfield / int_4fa68c72	comment	Like Parent, Like Spouse: David's first wife, the beautiful, frail and empty-headed Dora Spenlow, is reminiscent of his mother Clara. Lampshaded by Aunt Betsey.
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David Copperfield / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
David Copperfield / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: David falls in love with Dora, it is heavily implied (mostly by Aunt Betsey), because she reminds him of his mother Clara.
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David Copperfield / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
David Copperfield / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Mr. Wickfield, actively encouraged by Uriah in order to gain further control.
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David Copperfield / int_54bb2c63	type	The Alleged Boss
David Copperfield / int_54bb2c63	comment	The Alleged Boss: Mr. Jorkins of the law firm of Spenlow and Jorkins does little beside hide in his office upstairs, with a small desk and a writing pad yellowed in age. Outside the office, Jorkins is a reclusive bachelor who lives in a house needing painting. In effect, for many years Mr. Jorkins chose to leave the running of the firm to his more competent partner Spenlow.
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David Copperfield / int_55d33017	type	Sheltered Aristocrat
David Copperfield / int_55d33017	comment	Sheltered Aristocrat: Dora, tragically. She doesn't know anything about household management or upper-middle-class life, a fact which frustrates David to no end.
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David Copperfield / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
David Copperfield / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Several passages, usually involving Micawber or Dan Peggotty.
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David Copperfield / int_560e8d61	type	Deceptive Disciple
David Copperfield / int_560e8d61	comment	Deceptive Disciple: Uriah Heep to Mr. Wickfield, for the first part of the book.
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David Copperfield / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
David Copperfield / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Pretty much a necessity for any novel of this era. The 1935 adaptation heavily streamlines the plot and dialogue, and completely omits David's time at Salem Hall. Most of the TV adaptations, though they have more time to work with, also do some streamlining.
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David Copperfield / int_5c9ccf46	type	One of the Kids
David Copperfield / int_5c9ccf46	comment	One of the Kids: Mr. Dick is very simple and kind, and bonds easily with the young David.
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David Copperfield / int_5dc016f	type	Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation
David Copperfield / int_5dc016f	comment	Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation: The 1993 animated adaptation in which the main characters are felines, and others are dogs, rats, monkeys, etc.
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David Copperfield / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
David Copperfield / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Exemplified by Agnes, who nobly puts her own feelings for David aside and becomes Dora's best friend — then Dora herself, on her deathbed, when she has Agnes promise that only she will fill Dora's 'vacant place' afterwards.
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David Copperfield / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
David Copperfield / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: James Steerworth nicknames David, his younger, starstruck bro, "Daisy".
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David Copperfield / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
David Copperfield / int_60c90bd5	comment	Orphan's Ordeal: David loses his mother and is stuck with the Murdstones.
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David Copperfield / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
David Copperfield / int_60fa92ac	comment	Uriah Heep. Used to spectacular effect by Micawber in exposing him.
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David Copperfield / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
David Copperfield / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Mr. Dick, at least to Aunt Betsey. She insists he's actually brilliant, and relies on his judgment. When he gets a job as a copyist later in the story, he does very well at it, and as he has a small independent income, he puts his wages in a trust fund for Betsey.
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David Copperfield / int_64f3ea6e	type	Disneyfication
David Copperfield / int_64f3ea6e	comment	Disneyfication: The 1993 animated adaptation. All the characters are replaced with anthropomorphic house pets (including mice), and the poorhouse has a sub-plot with a Festering Fungus in the basement.
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David Copperfield / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
David Copperfield / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Although it's important to realise this isn't by any means a straight autobiography.
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David Copperfield / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
David Copperfield / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: This is Dickens, so it's reasonable to assume every name in the story is significant in one way or another. "Copperfield" could very well be a reference to David's socioeconomic status—he is neither gold nor silver, but still one of the legacy metals. Class and class relations are major themes of the novel, and David's own situation is vital to his development, as it affords him mobility and exposure to a wide variety of demographics. As Aunt Betsey lampshades repeatedly, no one named "Murdstone" is going to be a fount of human kindness. Uriah Heep. Used to spectacular effect by Micawber in exposing him. Agnes Wickfield is frequently associated with candle and fire imagery. The similarity to David's own surname is also telling. Dora is nothing but adorable, and David's relationship with her cannot sustain itself beyond adoration. Steerforth's is possibly the most significant and multilayered. He is associated throughout the book with the ocean and navigation, in terms both metaphorical ("Steerforth, you'retheguidingstarofmyexistence!") and practical, leading up to his eventual watery demise. It also refers to his perpetual "steering forth"—always in search of new adventures before the old have been concluded—and the captivating, guiding influence he commands over everyone who encounters him. This last is lampshaded by Steerforth himself, who in a rare moment of depression laments the irony in his situation:
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David Copperfield / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
David Copperfield / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto: Spenlow's putting the squash on his daughter Dora's romance with newly-penniless David. Right before he actually dies.
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David Copperfield / int_6dbd3711	type	Affectionate Gesture to the Head
David Copperfield / int_6dbd3711	comment	Affectionate Gesture to the Head: When Miss Betsey Trotwood visits David's mother Clara Copperfield, who is very pregnant and very sad over her dead husband, she seems very determined, opinionated, stubborn and almost rude. However, at one moment she gently touched Clara's hair ("she had a fancy that she felt Miss Betsey touch her hair, and that with no ungentle hand"). When Clara has a boy instead of a girl that Miss Betsey had wanted to take care of, she left abruptly. Later in the narrative, when David is unsure if Miss Betsey will help him, he keeps thinking particularly about this gesture of kindness. Soon after Mr Murdstone meets little David and his young widowed mother, he pats him on his head, but David dislikes him very much, and dislikes the thought that he is interested in his mother.
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David Copperfield / int_6fcfbf9c	type	The Plot Reaper
David Copperfield / int_6fcfbf9c	comment	The Plot Reaper: It gets to Dora, and to some extent Clara Copperfield. Clara has to die so David can be sent off as an orphan and move on to the next part of the story; Dora has to die so David can wind up with his real true love and proper match, Agnes.
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David Copperfield / int_74d9d78f	type	Hate at First Sight
David Copperfield / int_74d9d78f	comment	Hate at First Sight: David's reaction on meeting Uriah.
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David Copperfield / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
David Copperfield / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: Tommy Traddles's fiancee Sophy is the fourth of ten daughters.
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David Copperfield / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
David Copperfield / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: At the beginning of the story Aunt Betsey has a grim view of men and boys in general, due to her bad experiences in her own marriage. Clara giving birth to the male protagonist instead of the girl Betsey wanted induces the latter to storm out of the house in a rage. However, she gradually softens, and grows very fond of David after taking him in.
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David Copperfield / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
David Copperfield / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Martha's friendship with Emily and her assistance to Dan Peggotty.
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David Copperfield / int_780e2082	type	Slimeball
David Copperfield / int_780e2082	comment	Slimeball: Uriah Heep is a smarmy villain with sanctimonious "umble" mannerisms, inspiring loathing from most other characters. On their first meeting, David tries to be polite but is repulsed by Uriah's clammy handshake. Uriah even manages to take any fun out of it when David finally clobbers him one, merely looking hurt and saying he was too generous of a man to hit back.
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David Copperfield / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
David Copperfield / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: David and Agnes... according to David, that is. Conjectures are also made that Rosa and Steerforth, as well as Ham and Emily, have this sort of relationship. But it's not that simple in any of these cases.
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David Copperfield / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
David Copperfield / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Uriah makes a habit of calling David "Master Copperfield" (the form of address for a young boy) even when they are both adults, subtly belittling him.
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David Copperfield / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
David Copperfield / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: Uriah toward Wickfield, in that he uses the latter's alcoholism as a weapon against him. Also, in one vivid scene, Rosa Dartle's response to poor Emily, whom she finds broken and defenseless on returning to England.
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David Copperfield / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
David Copperfield / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: As per above, Aunt Betsey gives a great one to Mr. Murdstone and his sister when they try to take David from her.
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David Copperfield / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
David Copperfield / int_813afa05	comment	Defiled Forever: The reason everyone is so distraught by Emily's escape with Steerforth. If he seduces her but neglects to marry her, she will be forever stained in the eyes of Victorian society.
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David Copperfield / int_815d5a99	type	The Three Faces of Eve
David Copperfield / int_815d5a99	comment	The Three Faces of Eve: The three women David loves over the course of his life fit this pretty well: Agnes, who is sensible, a fabulous homemaker, and always lends wisdom and support is the wife; Dora, who is woefully ignorant and naive but affectionate and often described in terms of children and even called 'child-wife' is the child, and Em'ly, who has an affair with Steerforth and may or may not have worked as a prostitute but is at the very least keeps company with ex-prostitute Martha is the seductress.
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David Copperfield / int_815ea2a1	type	All Is Well That Ends Well
David Copperfield / int_815ea2a1	comment	All Is Well That Ends Well: David overlooks the abuse of his childhood and other experiences to focus on the happy present.
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David Copperfield / int_83a55c8e	type	Napoleon Delusion
David Copperfield / int_83a55c8e	comment	Napoleon Delusion: Downplayed. Mr. Dick believes himself to be King Charles I, but unlike most examples makes no attempt whatsoever to act or dress the part.
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David Copperfield / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
David Copperfield / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Miss Mowcher turns a Type A prototype after Dickens switches gears from The Grotesque (she hides her depression under laughs, even at her own expense). It's possible to read Agnes Wickfield as a very determined version of this.
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David Copperfield / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
David Copperfield / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: Steerforth is often cast as one of the villains of the piece, although his actions betray a mere careless self-interest (coupled with an unfortunately potent charisma), rather than any actual desire to do harm.
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David Copperfield / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
David Copperfield / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: David marries Agnes to be his second wife. Although a case can be made that his first love, Dora, was only boyish infatuation. (He mentions several other crushes, though.)
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David Copperfield / int_8cbd311b	type	Good Angel, Bad Angel
David Copperfield / int_8cbd311b	comment	Good Angel, Bad Angel: Discussed. David repeatedly refers to Agnes as his "good angel," maintaining that her influence guides him in life. When Agnes learns of this association, she takes the opportunity to warn him against his "bad angel," Steerforth, whom she sees as a corrupting influence. Throughout the book, Agnes and Steerforth are paralleled and contrasted in terms of their relationships to David and linked by the shared metaphor of guiding star.
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David Copperfield / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
David Copperfield / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: Emily's all-consuming ambition to "be a lady" and Steerforth's tendency to woo and then discard collide with disastrous results.
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David Copperfield / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
David Copperfield / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Ham and Emily were going to be this, as their marriage had been arranged, but Emily gets seduced by Steerforth instead.
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David Copperfield / int_91652846	type	Hero-Worshipper
David Copperfield / int_91652846	comment	Hero-Worshipper: David and his fellow students at Salem House are unabashedly this to Steerforth; Mrs. Steerforth later explains to David that this is specifically why she placed her son at such a lowly school, so that he would naturally stand out and thus be 'appreciated' as he deserved.
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David Copperfield / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
David Copperfield / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Uriah, who has spent the whole book pretending to be "umble" to disguise his greedy, spiteful, obsessive nature, only shows his true colors during his final confrontation with Mr. Micawber.
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David Copperfield / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
David Copperfield / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Uriah Heep makes a pretense of being "'umble" and friendly, and maintains a superficial attitude of obsequiousness, but is actually an evil schemer looking to take over Mr. Wickfield's business and force Agnes to marry him.
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David Copperfield / int_95e7be81	type	Rich Boredom
David Copperfield / int_95e7be81	comment	Rich Boredom: Steerforth comes from a rich upper-class family. He doesn't have to do anything, and as a result, he flits from one fancy to the next without truly accomplishing anything.
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David Copperfield / int_963e36bd	type	Boarding School of Horrors
David Copperfield / int_963e36bd	comment	Boarding School of Horrors: Salem House isn't quite as bad as the famous Dotheboys Hall from Nicholas Nickleby, but only because Mr Creakle isn't quite as devoted to his sadism, being more stupid and lazy than outright evil.
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David Copperfield / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
David Copperfield / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Uriah Heep points out the similarities between himself and David, freaking David right out.
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David Copperfield / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
David Copperfield / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Mr. Murdstone is this to the adult David, in respect of their treatment of their frail, child-like wives. The former utterly destroyed Clara with his cruelty in attempting to instil "firmness of character" in her. Although David is kind to his first wife Dora, he similarly shows signs of wanting to mould her and train her to be an efficient housekeeper, and Aunt Betsey cautions him against going down a similar path to that his stepfather took with his mother. David takes this to heart and resolves to allow Dora to just be who she is.
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David Copperfield / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
David Copperfield / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Both Steerforth and Heep have close relationships with their mothers, whom they closely resemble. The women's unconditional worship of their sons is suggested to have played a part in the boys' negative development.
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David Copperfield / int_a00fb5fd	type	First Love
David Copperfield / int_a00fb5fd	comment	First Love: This trope is an important element in the story, used both ways, since David marries his first love, Dora, only to realise that they are not well-suited. He loves her but she can't be a partner to him. Upon her death, he marries Agnes, who considered him to be her first love, and who had loved him the whole time. A rare case of both the unhappy First Love type and the triumphant First Love type, for Agnes, who ultimately ends up marrying David — in one story.
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David Copperfield / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
David Copperfield / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Often Played for Laughs with Mr. Micawber, who can go in an instant from being assured that he has reached the uttermost depths of despair to cheerfully assuming that all will be well.
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David Copperfield / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
David Copperfield / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Mr. Murdstone never really gets what he deserves for abusing David and his mother, and continues to marry and abuse women.
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David Copperfield / int_a8cbf649	type	I Should Write a Book About This
David Copperfield / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: From the very first sentence, the reader knows this is meant as David's autobiography:
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David Copperfield / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
David Copperfield / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: David sometimes refers to the villainous Uriah Heep's eyes as red, with an ambiguous degree of seriousness.
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David Copperfield / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
David Copperfield / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: David's guardians (save for Peggoty) almost exclusively fall under this, being too childish themselves (Clara Copperfield, Mr. Dick), heartless (the Murdstones, Creakle), drunks (Wickfield), or severely in debt (Micawbers). Even kind and capable Aunt Betsey ends up losing all her money and throwing herself on David's doorstep.
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David Copperfield / int_aae5831b	type	Disproportionate Restitution
David Copperfield / int_aae5831b	comment	Disproportionate Restitution: In exchange for having seduced her, taken her from her loving family, dragged her all over Europe as his pet, completely broken her sense of self-worth, and broken her heart, Steerforth offers Em'ly marriage to his odious, much-older, and fully cooperative manservant, Littimer, as a consolation prize. Em'ly doesn't go for it.
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David Copperfield / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
David Copperfield / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: Near the end, David thinks to himself that he rather suspected that Agnes had loved him when they were younger, but since he wasn't interested in her like that he just ignored it. She's actually still interested, but now he's genuinely oblivious because presumably she's hiding her feelings now.
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David Copperfield / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
David Copperfield / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: Very literally, and one of the finest examples in Western literature.
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David Copperfield / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
David Copperfield / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: Villainous Uriah Heep confides his love for Agnes to David, knowing how much it will hurt him.
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David Copperfield / int_b2c15631	type	"No More Holding Back" Speech
David Copperfield / int_b2c15631	comment	"No More Holding Back" Speech: Miss Mowcher gives one of these to David in her second appearance, calling him out for snap-judging her based on her appearance and behavior in company of Steerforth and describing her struggles growing up as a dwarf and the effort she spent carving out a niche for herself in society.
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David Copperfield / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
David Copperfield / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Uriah Heep was often said to be based on the real life Hans Christian Andersen, with whom Dickens was quite annoyed with after he invited himself to stay at the Dickens' house for a month.
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David Copperfield / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
David Copperfield / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: Comes with the territory. Often goes so far as to become an...
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David Copperfield / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
David Copperfield / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Uriah Heep and, by blackmail, Wickfield. Also David's first bosses Spenlow and Jorkins, to an extent. Dickens gleefully lampshades the disastrous state of the British judicial system at every opportunity.
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David Copperfield / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
David Copperfield / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The last two chapters are primarily concerned with sketching the current circumstances of the characters.
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David Copperfield / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
David Copperfield / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: A few, but the main one is Agnes/David/Dora. Others include Ham/Emily/Steerforth, Emily/Steerforth/Rosa Dartle, Uriah/Agnes/David, and for a time, we're led to believe Dr.Strong/Annie/Jack Maldon is one.
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David Copperfield / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
David Copperfield / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Jane Murdstone, though only towards boys. Her opinion of girls is unknown.
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David Copperfield / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
David Copperfield / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not let the donkeys on Betsey Trotwood's green. Ever.
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David Copperfield / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
David Copperfield / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: A few explicit examples, pretty clearly intended to further David's exploration of the topic: comically unromantic but comfortable Peggotty & Barkis, then plain but-sensible Tommy Traddles & his devoted, self-denying Sophy. Partly due to the lessons he learns from them, David and Agnes end up as this.
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David Copperfield / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
David Copperfield / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Ham dies trying (and failing) to save Steerforth, the man he swore to kill because he stole and subsequently ruined his fiancee. (At least, that's one possibility — the other is that Ham dies making sure Steerforth drowned.)
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David Copperfield / int_c3b40ab8	type	Evil Redhead
David Copperfield / int_c3b40ab8	comment	Evil Redhead: Uriah Heep. The pale eyelashes and -brows that go with this colouring are played up for maximum creepiness.
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David Copperfield / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
David Copperfield / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Tommy Traddles, Ham, and usually David himself.
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David Copperfield / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
David Copperfield / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: All the books David mentions reading as a child are real books Dickens probably read in his. The novel is filled with allusions to other famous works of literature, primarily Shakespeare.
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David Copperfield / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
David Copperfield / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Miss Betsey, who is a bit of a benign control freak, likes to rename the people around her to her taste. David is "Trotwood" or "Trot", Richard Babley is "Mr. Dick", Clara is "Baby", the Murdstones are "the Murderers" and Dora is "Little Blossom".
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David Copperfield / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
David Copperfield / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: David's attachment to women like his mother, and Uriah Heep's issues with humility via his father.
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David Copperfield / int_c8d6d621	type	I Will Wait for You
David Copperfield / int_c8d6d621	comment	I Will Wait for You: Sophy faithfully and happily waits for Traddles to be financially able to marry her.
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David Copperfield / int_c960826	type	Supporting Protagonist
David Copperfield / int_c960826	comment	Supporting Protagonist: David toes the line, especially when Steerforth is around.
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David Copperfield / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
David Copperfield / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Rose Dartle blames Little Em'ly for beguiling Steerforth and corrupting him into running off with her, leaving his family bereft, when it's blatantly clear it was the other way around. Then again, Rose is a) living in the 19th century and b) in denial.
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David Copperfield / int_cbbf302c	type	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends
David Copperfield / int_cbbf302c	comment	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Interestingly lampshaded by Dora's death; she herself comments that it's better this way, as she would never have gotten past her silliness and stupidity and David would've eventually despised her for it. In the same portion of the story, Steerforth's death. Whether or not one considers him a strictly "romantic" interest (David certainly refers to the relationship that way at times), he has been enough of a draw for David to keep him from Agnes (which she herself acknowledges), who must now receive David's undivided attention.
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David Copperfield / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
David Copperfield / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: How David sees Littimer, Steerforth's loyal servant, later employed with another man. Later reveals his true colours when he runs away with his next master's money, gets arrested, and becomes Uriah's rival for the position of Most Valued Prisoner.
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David Copperfield / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
David Copperfield / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: The book is named David Copperfield after its hero.
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David Copperfield / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
David Copperfield / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Mr. Micawber, after months of being blackmailed by Uriah into helping him forge documents and just generally being exploited past endurance, finally exposes all his misdeeds in truly epic fashion.
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David Copperfield / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
David Copperfield / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: Dora, albeit this is referred to only very obliquely in the text. Also, Clara dies just a few weeks after giving birth to her and Edward Murdstone's child, and Agnes Wickfield's mother is implied to have died giving birth to her, heightening her father's melancholy and her own sense of guilty responsibility to him in turn. In an era well prior to modern hygienic let alone obstetric techniques, all this was very much Truth in Television.
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David Copperfield / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
David Copperfield / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Mrs. Micawber's defiant (albeit frequently unasked-for) insistence that "I never will desert Mr. Micawber!" achieved the nineteenth-century equivalent of a Memetic Mutation. David: "Dear me!" Uriah: "We are/I am so very umble ... " Mr. Dick: "She [Miss Betsey] is the most wonderful woman in the world, sir!" Mr. Peggotty: "You'll find me rough, but you'll find me ready." Rosa Dartle: "Is it really, though?" Miss Mowcher: "Ain't I volatile?" A drunken old pawnbroker: "Goroo! Oh, goroooooo!" Mr. Micawber is fond of mentioning something 'turning up'. He also has a habit of letting his florid turns of phrase get way out of hand, so that his speeches invariably end with "in short —"
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David Copperfield / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
David Copperfield / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Uriah Heep, who in spite of claiming to be "humble", shows himself to be anything but humble when he uses his scheming power to forge Wickfield's signature in his attempt to embezzle the Wickfields' fortunes.
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David Copperfield / int_d84a3beb	type	Either/Or Title
David Copperfield / int_d84a3beb	comment	Either/Or Title: The book's full title is "David Copperfield, or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to publish on any account)".
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David Copperfield / int_daecf1c2	type	Does He Have a Brother?
David Copperfield / int_daecf1c2	comment	Does He Have a Brother?: Steerforth asks David if he has a sister. A subtle indication that if there had been a female version of David in existence, Steerforth would have loved to know her.
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David Copperfield / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
David Copperfield / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Most of the major plot twists involve characters just happening to walk past doorways or meet on the street. In the heart of London!
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David Copperfield / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
David Copperfield / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: David is apparently just too cute for people to resist nicknaming him. Steerforth calls him "Daisy" purportedly in reference to his "freshness" and naivety. Dora calls him "Doady" and asks him to refer to her as his "child-wife". Agnes calls him "Trotwood" throughout his life, since that was how he was first introduced to her by David's aunt. Miss Betsey decides to call David "Trotwood Copperfield", as a compromise (she had intended his nonexistent sister to be christened Betsey Trotwood) and often shortens it to Trot.
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David Copperfield / int_de19df2b	type	The Matchmaker
David Copperfield / int_de19df2b	comment	The Matchmaker: Miss Mills, having despaired of ever finding love herself, reportedly plays this role for every young couple she can get her hands on. She consequently becomes the Shipper on Deck for David and Dora, and is instrumental in their continued relationship.
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David Copperfield / int_de80e030	type	Social Climber
David Copperfield / int_de80e030	comment	Social Climber Little Em'ly spends all her life wishing to be a lady. So when the dashingly highborn James Steerforth offers himself up, she jumps at the opportunity. Uriah Heep works the backstabber angle of this trope, plotting to supplant his employer in the law firm.
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David Copperfield / int_df2b3ec	type	Kindly Housekeeper
David Copperfield / int_df2b3ec	comment	Kindly Housekeeper: Peggotty, to the extent that she becomes more of an affectionate auntie figure to David.
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David Copperfield / int_e1721fd1	type	Antiquated Linguistics
David Copperfield / int_e1721fd1	comment	Antiquated Linguistics: It's Dickens. It's the Victorian era. Hemingway this was never gonna be.
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David Copperfield / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
David Copperfield / int_e195807e	comment	Childhood Marriage Promise: David promises to marry 'Little Em'ly' when they're about 8 years old, but it never comes to pass, since she 'wants to be a lady'. Steerforth artfully uses both David's sentimentalism and Emily's desire to further his seduction, heightening his villainy.
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David Copperfield / int_e2cd1428	type	Widow's Weeds
David Copperfield / int_e2cd1428	comment	Widow's Weeds: Spear Counterpart. David wears a black armband to show mourning for his wife Dora.
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David Copperfield / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
David Copperfield / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Dora is very ditzy, something Dickens gleefully lampshades at every opportunity.
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David Copperfield / int_e313b4e7	type	Manchild
David Copperfield / int_e313b4e7	comment	Manchild: Clara Copperfield and Dora are both good-natured but with the emotional range of children which leaves them unable to take on the adult role of managing their households. In Clara's case this left her vulnerable to Murdstone, who took advantage of her naivety. In Dora's case it leaves David with the pressure to pick up the slack. David is a downplayed example. Despite spending a good portion of his childhood on the streets of London, he remains fairly naive as an adult.
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David Copperfield / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
David Copperfield / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: David to Steerforth. Steerforth typically carries on relationships only as long as he believes they will benefit him, yet he seems to manifest a genuine attachment to David, especially in their young adulthood before meeting the Peggottys and Little Em'ly, when Steerforth stands to gain nothing from the relationship. Indeed, Mrs. Steerforth maintains that "he feels an unusual friendship for you, and ... you may rely on his protection." Some, including Mrs. Steerforth, believe that James hopes David will become his Morality Chain.
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David Copperfield / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
David Copperfield / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Everyone notices how strange it is when the normally irrepressibly cheerful Micawber becomes withdrawn and irritable. It turns out he's being manipulated into taking part in Heep's evil schemes, and is right back to his old self after publicly exposing Heep.
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David Copperfield / int_eadc018f	type	Pinball Protagonist
David Copperfield / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: David, increasingly towards the end of the book, is a mere looker-on at the dramatic resolution of others' subplots, including Micawber's expose of Heep and (less plausibly) Dan Peggotty's rescue of Emily.
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David Copperfield / int_eaf83237	type	The Grotesque
David Copperfield / int_eaf83237	comment	The Grotesque: Miss Mowcher, the dwarf hairdresser ("Ain't I volatile?!"). Originally, Dickens was going to make her an amoral little creep, but quickly switched gears after her real-life inspiration complained.
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David Copperfield / int_ec3ff1f7	type	In Which a Trope Is Described
David Copperfield / int_ec3ff1f7	comment	In Which a Trope Is Described: Used for the first several chapters.
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David Copperfield / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
David Copperfield / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Emily, to Steerforth. He's too self-absorbed to properly return her feelings.
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David Copperfield / int_ece948d8	type	Tender Tears
David Copperfield / int_ece948d8	comment	Tender Tears: Let's just say people cry a lot in this novel and leave it at that. Though David, Dora, and David's mother Clara probably cry the most.
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David Copperfield / int_eeb86ce6	type	Good Samaritan
David Copperfield / int_eeb86ce6	comment	Good Samaritan: The young, unnamed wife who Emily becomes acquainted with in Italy, who takes her into her home after she escapes Littimer and nurses her through her subsequent illness. Averted with the seemingly friendly woman who later takes her in in London, who nearly ends up luring the vulnerable Emily into prostitution.
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David Copperfield / int_ef21c962	type	Hired Help as Family
David Copperfield / int_ef21c962	comment	Hired Help as Family: Clara Peggotty is Mrs Copperfield's housekeeper and David's nurse. She is absolutely devoted and loyal to both of them. Peggotty never leaves the family even when David's young widowed mother marries Mr Murdstone, and the Murdstones actively campaign to get Peggotty out of the house. David is grateful for her friendship and devotion. (Peggotty is so loyal and self-sacrificing that she begins to feel like a stereotype: a model of a working-class woman in classist and class-segmented society.)
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David Copperfield / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
David Copperfield / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Mr Micawber has become a kind of unofficial emblem of this trope in English literature.
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David Copperfield / int_f4f3252e	type	Law of Inverse Fertility
David Copperfield / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: David and Dora. Also, possibly, the Micawbers (they keep having children, though they increasingly cannot support them.)
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David Copperfield / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
David Copperfield / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Aunt Betsey and Mr. Dick, whom she rescued when his family wished to institutionalize him. He unabashedly adores her for it.
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David Copperfield / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
David Copperfield / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: Rosa Dartle, who sees Steerforth for exactly what he is, but takes her fury out on any girl Steerforth loves and leaves (including his mother) rather than hate him.
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David Copperfield / int_f7cf9612	type	Neologism
David Copperfield / int_f7cf9612	comment	Neologism: "Micawbers" are optimistic in spite of hardship, and "Uriah Heeps" are weasels who pretend humility.
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David Copperfield / int_f8084d07	type	Society Is to Blame
David Copperfield / int_f8084d07	comment	Society Is to Blame: Uriah Heep turned out evil because of class injustice... according to Uriah, anyway.
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David Copperfield / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
David Copperfield / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: After Steerforth and Copperfield talk very loudly in their room, Steerforth is afraid of being reprimanded for "disorderly conduct in the bedroom". Mr. Dick's name becomes an example when coupled with the belief, very much current in Dickens' time, that mentally-handicapped men are notably well-endowed. Following David's first marriage:
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David Copperfield / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
David Copperfield / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: The old lady who bought David's caul, supposedly a charm against drowning in a shipwreck, eventually died of old age and everyone commented on the fact she had, indeed, not drowned in a shipwreck. She had also never been in a ship, and didn't understand why anyone would do do.
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David Copperfield / int_ff251a68	type	Doting Parent
David Copperfield / int_ff251a68	comment	Doting Parent: Steerforth's mother, so much. Also Clara (and to a certain extent Aunt Betsey) to David, and Spenlow to Dora.
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David Copperfield / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
David Copperfield / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: Rosa Dartle. Milked for all the drama it's worth. David thinks of her as "dilapidated, like a house, from being so long to let".
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David Copperfield / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
David Copperfield / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Noticeably in the 1999 version, the truly horrible Mr. Creakle is quite sympathetic and gentle with David when informing him of Clara's death. In the novel it was his wife who relayed the information, sobbing as she did so.
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David Copperfield	hasFeature	Affectionate Gesture to the Head / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Boarding School of Horrors / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Brainless Beauty / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Breaking Bad News Gently / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Character Title / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Costume Drama / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Cultural Translation / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	"Darkness von Gothick" Name / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Death by Childbirth / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Disproportionate Restitution / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Does He Have a Brother? / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off! / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	English Literature / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Guess Who I'm Marrying? / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Hate at First Sight / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Hired Help as Family / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Hooker with a Heart of Gold / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	"I Hate" Song / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	I Should Write a Book About This / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	I Will Find You / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Insistent Appellation / int_b456bc7a
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David Copperfield	hasFeature	Misery Lit / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Multi-Volume Work / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	"Near and Dear" Baby Naming / int_b456bc7a
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David Copperfield	hasFeature	Proper Lady / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_b456bc7a
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David Copperfield	hasFeature	Sex Signals Death / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Slimeball / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Starter Villain / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	The Three Faces of Eve / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Through His Stomach / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Victorian London / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Wanted a Son Instead / int_b456bc7a
David Copperfield	hasFeature	Wicked Stepmother / int_b456bc7a
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