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| Autor(es) |
DICKENS, CHARLES
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DAVID COPPERFIELD
DAVID COPPERFIELD
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LONDON
1977
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SIMPLIFIED BY MICHAEL WEST, ILLUSTRADED BY CHARLES MOSLEY,
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| Resumen |
DAVID COPPERFIELD USES THE STORY OF COPPERFIELD'S LIFE FROM BIRTH THROUGH MIDDLE LIFE TO INTRODUCE AND EXPLORE SOME WONDERFUL PERSONALITIES. LOOK MORE FOR DEEP AND PENETRATING CHARACTER STUDIES THAN A FAST MOVING PLOT LINE. IT IS NOT CHARACTER STUDY ALONE, HOWEVER. AGAIN AND AGAIN, THROUGH MANY CHARACTERS AND MANY INSTANCES, HE SEEMS TO REALLY EXPLORE THE FIRST MISTAKEN IMPULSE OF AN UNDISCIPLINED HEART, AND THAT THERE CAN BE NO DISPARITY IN MARRIAGE LIKE UNSUITABILITY OF MIND AND PURPOSE. LOOK FOR THESE THEMES TO COME IN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND CONTINUE UNTIL THEY ARE ACTUALLY SPELLED OUT BY ONE CHARACTER AND CONTEMPLATED BY ANOTHER. WHEN DAVID IS BORN, HIS FATHER IS ALREADY BURIED IN THE CHURCHYARD NEARBY. HE, HIS MOTHER, AND THEIR SERVANT PEGOTTY LIVE HAPPILY ENOUGH AS A FAMILY UNTIL HIS MOTHER REMARRIES. THE NEW HUSBAND DOES NOT LIKE FRIVOLITY OR FRIENDLY ASSOCIATION WITH SERVANTS BUT MORE THAN THAT, HE DOES NOT LIKE DAVID. DAVID IS SENT OFF TO BOARDING SCHOOL AND THEN SENT OUT TO WORK. BARRED FROM HIS MOTHER'S AFFECTIONS BY HIS STEPFATHER, PEGOTTY BECOMES A FULL MOTHER FIGURE AND HIS TIES TO HER AND HER FAMILY ONLY DEEPEN WITH TIME. THROUGH HER, HE MEETS HER BROTHER, MR. PEGOTTY, HER NEPHEW?, HAM, THE WIDOW MRS. GUMMIDGE AND MR. PEGOTTY'S NIECE, EMILY. AT SCHOOL, HE MAKES FAST FRIENDS WITH MANY BOYS BUT MOST ESPECIALLY WITH THE PRIVILEGED JAMES STEERFORTH AND THE NOT SO PRIVILEGED TOMMY TRADDLES, BOTH OF WHOM SHOW UP AGAIN IN DAVID'S ADULTHOOD. IN THE BOTTLING WAREHOUSE WHERE HE IS SENT TO WORK AS A CHILD, HE LODGES WITH MR. AND MRS. MICAWBER WHO ARE ALWAYS IN DEBT. THEY ALSO SHOW UP AGAIN IN HIS ADULTHOOD. WHEN THE STATION OF LIFE THAT HE IS BEING FORCED INTO AT HIS TENDER AGE BECOMES TOO MUCH FOR HIM, HE ESCAPES TO SEEK OUT HIS ECCENTRIC GREAT AUNT BETSEY TROTWOOD WHO TAKES HIM IN AND PROVIDES FOR HIM. THROUGH HER, HE MEETS HER LAWYER, MR. WICKFIELD, HIS DAUGHTER AGNES, DR. STRONG AND HIS YOUTHFUL BRIDE, ANNIE AND WE MUSTN'T FORGET URIAH HEEP. HE MARRIES, WORKS HARD AND BECOMES SUCCESSFUL. THESE ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE CHARACTERS AND IT ENCOMPASSES MORE THAN HALF OF THE NOVEL TO GET TO THIS POINT. (IN MY COPY, THAT WAS JUST OVER FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY PAGES). THE ONLY SLOW PART IS AFTER DAVID FINISHES SCHOOL AND BEFORE HE MEETS HIS WIFE. THAT PART DID SEEM TO MOVE SLOWLY BUT, APART FROM THAT, THE STORY MOVES VERY, VERY WELL AND -AFTER ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE SET UP AND WELL DEVELOPED - IT TAKES OFF LIKE A ROCKET AND IS DIFFICULT TO PUT DOWN WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT THE VARIOUS CHARACTERS PREDICAMENTS AND WONDERING HOW HE IS GOING TO PULL ALL OF THESE STRINGS TOGETHER. THIS IS DICKENS AFTER ALL. I WON'T SPOIL THE MEAT OF THE PLOT LINE FOR YOU. AGAIN, LOOK FOR THOSE THEMES - THE FIRST MISTAKEN IMPULSE OF AN UNDISCIPLINED HEART, AND THERE CAN BE NO DISPARITY IN MARRIAGE LIKE UNSUITABILITY OF MIND AND PURPOSE. |
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