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The Content of David Copperfield:
David, a posthumous child, is born soon after the death of his father.His mother, a gentle weak woman, marries again.Her second husband, Mr.Murdstone, is a vile-natured man.Under the guise of teaching David and forming his character, he tortures both David and his mother, driving the poor young mother to an early grave.David is sent to school, where he is badly treated by the sadistic-head-humoured, Creakle, and at the sane time makes two friends in Tommy Traddle, the tearful but good-humoured boy, and the handsome and brilliant Steerforth, the spoiled son of a foolish and aristocratic mother.When David’s mother dies, he is taken from school, and, child as he is, sets to work as a child-labourer in a blacking factory.He lives a life of poverty and misery, and makes the acquaintance of the lively and pennile Mr.Micawber.David decides to run away.He walks from London to Dover to throw himself on the mercy of hisgreat-aunt, Betsy Trowood, an eccentric but good-hearted old lady.His aunt adopts him and sends him to a good school.Thereafter he begins a new life.After schooling, David enters Doctors’ Commons to study law.Meeting Steerforth again, David introduces him to the family of his old nurse, Clara Peggotty.This family consists of Mr.Peggotty, a Yarmouth fisherman, his nephew Ham and Little Em’ly, a preety orphan girl, engaged to be married to Ham.The handsome villain Steerforth induces Little Em’ly to run away with Steerforth, who has abandoned Em’ly, is shipwrecked and drowned off Yarmouth found by Mr.Peggotty, and they, together with the Micawbers, emirate to Australia, where they live “happily ever after.” Meanwhile David has undergone a series of love adventures.He falls in love with, and then marries, his employer’s daughter, Dora, a pretty, empty-headed child.After a brief comedy-idyll of married life the child-wife Dora dies.David now becomes famous as an author.Later on he marries Agnes, the daughter of his aunt’s lawyer, Mr.Wickfield, and so achieves the happy ending of his adventures.
