【正文】 學(xué)士學(xué)位論文Shandong University Bachelor’s Thesis論文題目：The Analysis of David Copperfield’s Characters Contents Abstract i摘要 iiIntroduction 1I. Brief Introduction to Charles Dickens 2 Charles Dickens’ Miserable Childhood 2 Charles Dickens’ Adulthood 3II．General Characteristics of David Copperfield 3 Weakness and Immaturity of Child David Copperfield 4 Weakness of David Copperfield 4 Immaturity of David Copperfield 5 Kindness of David Copperfield 5 Stability and Maturity of Adult David Copperfield 6III. Several Main Characters’ impact on David Copperfield 7 Murdstone and Steerforth 8 Miss Betsey Trotwood and Peggotty 9 Dora and Agnes 10Conclusion 12Bibliography 13Acknowledgements 14AbstractDavid 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 unmon 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, . 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摘要《大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾》是英國維多利亞時期最杰出的批判現(xiàn)實主義作家查爾斯?狄更斯的自傳體小說。小說中主人公大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾以第一人稱講述了他不平凡的生活經(jīng)歷，為讀者描繪了一幅當(dāng)時社會的廣闊畫卷。這部小說是狄更斯自己最鐘愛的一部作品，小說中作者投入了大量的親身經(jīng)歷、體會以及個人情感，使之成為了作者“最溺愛的孩子”。同時，作者從某些方面回顧了自己的人生道路，表達了自己的生活態(tài)度、道德理想, 并且深度揭示了當(dāng)時社會的真正面貌及人們對于金錢的強烈欲望與貪婪。完全可以說，大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾是狄更斯創(chuàng)造的最為出色的一個人物形象之一。本文首先簡單介紹了作者狄更斯與其所創(chuàng)作人物大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾之間的微妙關(guān)系，同時對大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾的周圍人物對其性格的影響進行了分析，并對大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾的性格做了初步的闡述，并從童年、青年直到成年時期的大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾的變化中發(fā)現(xiàn)其成長歷程中的特點。對大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾性格的分析，為我們了解資本主義的特征提供了機會，同時也給了我們?nèi)松膯⒌稀ｊP(guān)鍵詞： 大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾；性格； 生活經(jīng)歷IntroductionCharles 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 series of hardships, disappointment, trial and affliction, and at last bees a man of property, a man of grace and a man of independence. Coincidently, Charles Dickens was also such a man, a man with a successful life. So we could say that the novel, David Copperfield, is Dickens’ satisfied reminiscence of his life style and literature reappearance of his personal experience.This thesis gives a brief introduction to the author Charles Dickens in Chapter one。 and Chapter two analyses the general characteristics of David Copperfield, the hero of this novel, and others’ influences ON his life are explored in Chapter three. The conclusion is the last part.I. Brief Introduction to Charles DickensCharles Dickens is one of the most famous English writers in the 19th century, and all his life and works keep pace with the development of his times. On the whole, his novels are mainly written in a realistic way, disclosing the hypocrisy, greed, meanness and cruelty of the upperclass and capitalist society. As well he always tries to awaken the general public to struggle against the oppression with a great sympathy and serious attitude. In addition, he praises in his works the good qualities of human beings, such as truth, kindness and beauty. Charles Dickens’ Miserable ChildhoodCharles Dickens was born on February 7th, 1812. His father was a clerk, who was “irresponsible and extravagant with the money he earned, and cast the family into debt and financial crisis time and again, until he eventually ended up in Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison” (Champion, 2005: 11). Because of this he was not sent to the school and had to work to support his family. The work at Warren’s Blacking Factory was a job demeaning and stultifying to his talents. Forster ever said this miserable experience was the secret agony of his soul and the misery to the young heart. The miserable time of young Dickens and the mistreatment to children and childlabor were mon subjects recurring frequently in his novels. In David Copperfield, he also expressed this kind of experience in another way. “Murdstone amp。 Co. dealt chiefly in cheap wines, so it warehouse was full of empty bottles. It was to be my job to wash them…How I hated to work in such a dirty and rotten plac