【正文】 lthy, honest and lovely child. If there is one part missing, that family will not be a perfect one.David Copperfield was published in 1849 and 1850. “Of all my books,” wrote Dickens, “I like this the best.” The story is told in the first person through the mouth of its hero, David Copperfield. In David Copperfield, Dickens has made good use of his own life experience to expose the social evils of the day, such as the miseries of childlabor, the tyranny in school, the debtors’ prison, as well as the cruelty, the immorality and the treachery which are prevalent in the English capitalist society. So the novel is not merely a personal record, but a broad picture of the society of the author’s day. Weakness and Immaturity of Child David CopperfieldDavid Copperfield was a posthumous child. His mother and Mr. Murdstone who was both stingy and cruel reposed their family. From that time on, their family lost its original calm and their share of harmony and happiness. Soon, his mother also died of depression after giving birth to a daughter. Peggotty who had taken good care of David was fired by his stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. David spent most of his days in misery alone. When David was ten years old, he was evicted out from his home and moved towards the future of the vast world, London, working in the warehouse as a coolie. He could not endure in the circumstances, and then escaped to his unique relative, Miss Betsey.David suffers a lot from a child, but he also gets many loves from his mother and the servant, Peggotty. That he appears a specific person, weak and immature, but very kind and aggressive. Weakness of David CopperfieldDavid’s mother was a woman similar to Dora who even did not know how to do housework. But her fate was different from Dora. When she came across Murdstone who treated her badly, her weakness appeared. David got this character from his poor mother being a child. When he first met Steerforth, he was such a little and poor boy and David never went against him. “It certainly had not occurred to me before, but I said, Yes” (Dickens, 1981: 78) to him. Facing the graceful and intelligent Steerforth, David was so nervous in their small party with Steerforth and his friends. “Being a little embarrassed at first, and feeling much too young to preside, I made Steerforth take the head of the table when dinner was announced” (Dickens, 1981: 331).As he is no more than a child, he really does not have that power or capability to change what he suffers from Mr. and Miss Murdstone, two gloomy devils in David’s world. It can be imagined what a difficult situation little David is in. It is natural for him to show weakness and timidity when facing the cruel world. Immaturity of David CopperfieldDavid fell in love with Little Emily when they panied each other in the days in Yarmouth. David “l(fā)oved that baby quite as truly, quite as tenderly with great purity than can enter into the best love of a later time of life, high and ennobling as it is” (Dickens, 1981: 34). Then being a young man, David engaged himself in pursuit of Dora, a beautiful and lovely girl, without thinking of their future life after they got married. Then, problems turned up. Dora could not do the simple housework and she even did not know why David worked for several hours a day and never spared some time with her. This kind of wife was not what David need, and choosing such a “child wife” was due to young David’s immaturity and impulsion. When he talked about Steerforth with Mr. Peggotty, he said that Steerforth “knows a task if he only looks at it. He is the beat cricketer you ever saw” (Dickens, 1981: 131). This unreasonable and blind admiration to Steerforth shows David’s immaturity. All of these facts give the best explanation to David’s immaturity. Kindness of David Copperfield Although David meets in his life so many bad persons like Mr. and Miss. Murdestone, Mr. Creakle and Uriah Heep, he also has a lot of sincere friends and helpers who make David still a kindhearted one. That is to say, though he has known some bad qualities of the people, David remains what he used to be.Peggotty was the servant in David’s family, and she helped David and his weak mother a lot when they were oppressed and exploited by Mr. Murdstone. When David was sent away from home, Peggotty wrote letters to encourage him. David appreciated her so much, so he permitted the carrier Barkis to marry her, considering Peggotty’s happiness. Agnes was David’s good friend, just like an older sister in his deep heart. Everything happened to her would make David anxious. When he knew Uriah Heep’s evil thought, he even could not sleep well. “I never shall forgot how I turned and tumbled。本文首先簡(jiǎn)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(shí)對(duì)大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾的周圍人物對(duì)其性格的影響進(jìn)行了分析，并對(duì)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(shí)期的大衛(wèi)?科波菲爾的變化中發(fā)現(xiàn)其成長(zhǎng)歷程中的特點(diǎn)。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(shí)社會(huì)的廣闊畫卷。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 Copperf