英语论文 英国文学大卫科波菲尔

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学士学位论文

Shandong University Bachelor’s Thesis

论文题目:The Analysis of David Copperfield’s Characters

作 者 姓 名: 黄立煜

学 号: 20040701025

专 业: 英语专业

指导教师姓名: 纪云霞

专业技术职务: 教授

2008年 6 月 5 日 Contents

Abstract ........................................................................................................ i

摘要............................................................................................................. ii

Introduction.................................................................................................. 1

I. Brief Introduction to Charles Dickens .......................................................... 2

1.1 Charles Dickens’ Miserable Childhood......................................................................... 2

1.2 Charles Dickens’ Adulthood.......................................................................................... 3

II.General Characteristics of David Copperfield ............................................... 3

2.1 Weakness and Immaturity of Child David Copperfield ................................................ 4

2.1.1 Weakness of David Copperfield ............................................................................. 4

2.1.2 Immaturity of David Copperfield ........................................................................... 5

2.2 Kindness of David Copperfield..................................................................................... 5

2.3 Stability and Maturity of Adult David Copperfield ...................................................... 6

III. Several Main Characters’ impact on David Copperfield .................................. 7

3.1 Murdstone and Steerforth .............................................................................................. 8

3.2 Miss Betsey Trotwood and Peggotty............................................................................. 9

3.3 Dora and Agnes ........................................................................................................... 10

Conclusion.................................................................................................. 12

Bibliography ............................................................................................... 13

Acknowledgements ...................................................................................... 14 i Abstract

David Copperfield, an autobiographical novel, is well known as the representative

work of Charles Dickens, the greatest novelist in the Victorian period. Written in the first

person, the novel depicts a broad picture of the society of Dickens’ times with his

uncommon life experience. David Copperfield is also Dickens’ own favorite work. In

writing, Dickens throws into this novel his thought, deep feelings and much of his own

experience in his childhood. Meanwhile, Dickens in some way retrospects and draws a

conclusion to his life and expresses his life attitude and moral ideal. Furthermore, his novel

also discloses the faulty mask of capitalist society and its strong desire and greed for

money. It is safe to say that David Copperfield is one of the most excellent characters

created by Dickens. The paper first briefly introduces the author Dickens, and then

undertakes a detailed study of the characteristics of David Copperfield through the analysis

of the influence of the people on him. The paper intends to make a preliminary explanation

of it. The paper bases its outline on the development of David Copperfield, i.e. from his

childhood to his adulthood. The analysis of the characteristics of David Copperfield will

provide us a chance to see the features of the capitalist society and give us some inspiration

about life.

Key words: David Copperfield; characteristics; life experience

ii 摘要

《大卫•科波菲尔》是英国维多利亚时期最杰出的批判现实主义作家查尔斯•狄更斯的自传体小说。小说中主人公大卫•科波菲尔以第一人称讲述了他不平凡的生活经历,为读者描绘了一幅当时社会的广阔画卷。这部小说是狄更斯自己最钟爱的一部作品,小说中作者投入了大量的亲身经历、体会以及个人情感,使之成为了作者“最溺爱的孩子”。同时,作者从某些方面回顾了自己的人生道路,表达了自己的生活态度、道德理想, 并且深度揭示了当时社会的真正面貌及人们对于金钱的强烈欲望与贪婪。完全可以说,大卫•科波菲尔是狄更斯创造的最为出色的一个人物形象之一。本文首先简单介绍了作者狄更斯与其所创作人物大卫•科波菲尔之间的微妙关系,同时对大卫•科波菲尔的周围人物对其性格的影响进行了分析,并对大卫•科波菲尔的性格做了初步的阐述,并从童年、青年直到成年时期的大卫•科波菲尔的变化中发现其成长历程中的特点。对大卫•科波菲尔性格的分析,为我们了解资本主义的特征提供了机会,同时也给了我们人生的启迪。

关键词: 大卫•科波菲尔;性格; 生活经历

1 Introduction

Charles Dickens(1812—1870)is the most popular and famous English novelist.

Being the greatest representative of the English critical realism, he gives us a vivid picture

of the everyday life of ordinary people in David Copperfield. David, the leading character

of the novel, is a person who, from a poor orphan, grows up to be a famous writer after a