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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: From the very first sentence, the reader knows this is meant as David's autobiography:
--> Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
--> Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
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* BaitTheDog: 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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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.
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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 HouseholdNames in the 19th-century and are still familiar to some extent today.
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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 [[Music/UriahHeep British rock band]].
Can be read [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/David_Copperfield here]].
Can be read [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/David_Copperfield here]].
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If it's mentioned anywhere in pop culture, it'll be because the individual has the title confused with [[Creator/DavidCopperfield the magician.magician]]. Or, if someone mentions Uriah Heep, they'll confuse that with the [[Music/UriahHeep British rock band]].
Can be read [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/David_Copperfield here]].Can be read here.]]
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* {{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.
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** 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.
** 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.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: 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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* {{Manchild}}: 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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* {{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.
** 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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* GoodSamaritan: 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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* MayDecemberRomance: David's mother was "not yet twenty" when she married his father, who was twice her age.
