DAVID COPPERFIELD, Charles Dickens David Copperfield was written in the middle of nineteenth century (1849-50).

It pictures middle and lower middle class life in agricultural districts of England and in London, in terms of keen social and moral clashes. The novel David Copperfield is a fictionalized autobiography, reflecting aspects of the authors personal experience. From the cultural point of view, the David Copperfield correspond to the Early Victorian period, which is characterized by realism. The aim of the early Victorian novel is to represent life as it really is, to create a fictional world which the reader accepts as real. Both characters and events were judged by an omniscient narrator who expressed the dominant moral views of the time. From the historical point of view, the novel David Copperfield was influenced by the Industrial Revolution, which transformed the social landscape dramatically. The industrial progress enabled capitalists and manufacturers to collect great fortunes. As a result, the gap between rich and poor remained wide. Attracted by the opportunities promised by the technological progress, a great amount of people came from the rural areas to the cities. This migration overpopulated the already crowded cities, bringing much more poverty, diseases and hazardous life conditions. Charles Dickens observed these phenomena of the Industrial Revolution and used them to paint the novel David Copperfield.