Abstract thesis: Analysis on the Autobiographical Aspects of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.
An autobiographical novel is a novel which is based on the life of the author. While the events of the author’s life are recounted, there is no pretense of neutrality or even exact truth. Events may be reported in the way the author wishes they had been with enemies which are more complete than perhaps they actually were. Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield is categorized in into an autobiographical novel.
In this case, the researcher is interested in analyzing one of popular autobiographical novels, i.e. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, one of the great English novelists of the Victorian era. She is analysis on its autobiographical aspects. She chooses this because the same book said that David Copperfield is Dickens’ autobiography fiction and this novel is Dickens’ favorite novel.
Then, this research is aimed at finding the aspects of David Copperfield which reflects Charles Dickens’ autobiography and the fictional aspects of David Copperfield compared to the life of Charles Dickens. The researcher limits this study by emphasizing more on the family background, education, childhood experience, love affair, and career of David as the reflection of Dickens’ life.
To give clear description of how this study is conducted the researcher uses literary criticism as her research design in the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. She uses biographical approach. Biographical approach is a systematic study concerning process of creativity. Subject creator is deemed as the history of literary work. The meaning of literature is the same as the aim, purpose, instruction, and special objective of the author.
Furthermore, the researcher finds that several comparable incidents about the similarities between the life of Charles Dickens and David Copperfield particularly on the family background that is Mr. Micawber’s imprisonment at King Bench Prison, David’s education is run by a cruel Mr. Creakle at Salem House Academy, David’s childhood experience as washing and labeling bottles at Murdstone and Grinby warehouse, David’s love affair with Dora, and David’s career as a clerk. Dickens uses David Copperfield as a medium to look back over his own life although he avoided using actual names, by making up the scenery and names of the people in his fiction. From a comparison of the two stories we can learn about Dickens himself, and in creating David Copperfield as a fictional autobiography. Of course, David Copperfield is not Charles Dickens, nor is David Copperfield precisely the story of Dickens’ own life. David Copperfield is unusual only because it seems to copy some of the events and character of Charles Dickens’ life very closely.
In this case, the researcher is interested in analyzing one of popular autobiographical novels, i.e. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, one of the great English novelists of the Victorian era. She is analysis on its autobiographical aspects. She chooses this because the same book said that David Copperfield is Dickens’ autobiography fiction and this novel is Dickens’ favorite novel.
Then, this research is aimed at finding the aspects of David Copperfield which reflects Charles Dickens’ autobiography and the fictional aspects of David Copperfield compared to the life of Charles Dickens. The researcher limits this study by emphasizing more on the family background, education, childhood experience, love affair, and career of David as the reflection of Dickens’ life.
To give clear description of how this study is conducted the researcher uses literary criticism as her research design in the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. She uses biographical approach. Biographical approach is a systematic study concerning process of creativity. Subject creator is deemed as the history of literary work. The meaning of literature is the same as the aim, purpose, instruction, and special objective of the author.
Furthermore, the researcher finds that several comparable incidents about the similarities between the life of Charles Dickens and David Copperfield particularly on the family background that is Mr. Micawber’s imprisonment at King Bench Prison, David’s education is run by a cruel Mr. Creakle at Salem House Academy, David’s childhood experience as washing and labeling bottles at Murdstone and Grinby warehouse, David’s love affair with Dora, and David’s career as a clerk. Dickens uses David Copperfield as a medium to look back over his own life although he avoided using actual names, by making up the scenery and names of the people in his fiction. From a comparison of the two stories we can learn about Dickens himself, and in creating David Copperfield as a fictional autobiography. Of course, David Copperfield is not Charles Dickens, nor is David Copperfield precisely the story of Dickens’ own life. David Copperfield is unusual only because it seems to copy some of the events and character of Charles Dickens’ life very closely.
writer and researcher: Fatimah, Siti
years of research: 2007
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An Analysis on the Autobiographical Aspects of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
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