The Suffering of Children in Charles Dickens' Novel David Copperfield

Abstract

The present study attempts to investigate children social suffering in Charles Dickens' novel "David Copperfield". In addition to that, the present study expresses the author‟s motives behind the writing about this phenomenon. This investigation aims at laying attention on the different kinds of children suffering, through a literary study of the corpus; the work aims to focus on the protagonist in order to understand his physical and psychological suffering. To carry out this study we have opted for thematic analytical method. Based on the investigation of the suffering of children in David Copperfield, we realize that Dickens could reflect children social suffering in his society. Thus, the author has various objectives behind writing about this phenomena, he tries to find out the causes and effects of children social suffering. Hence, we can deduce that, Dickens has a psychological motive in writing about this social Phenomenon