“To begin my life with the beginning of my life I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on Friday at twelve ‘o clock at night.”(Dickens 1). “…I was destined to be unlucky in life…” (Dickens 1). Charles Dickens sadly injures his character David by subjecting him to the reality of child abuse and neglect. “ ‘Mr. Murdstone! Sir!’ I cried to him. ‘Don’t! Pray don’t beat me! I have tried to learn sir…’” (Dickens 53). “He beat me then, as if he would have beaten me to death. Above all the noi

‘Raise her up!’ said Mr. Pegotty.

“ ‘You cannot fail to know that she is far below him.’

Prostitution was an extreme condition to Mr. Dickens. He even developed a character, Martha, who could easily be pitied for her position. She is an orphan and with no money and no one to take her in, she became a prostitute to keep on living. Here is Martha’s cry to the public:

‘She is uneducated and ignorant.’

David Copperfield entered into the world of education. His headmaster, Mr. Creakle, caned students, sometimes for necessary discipline, sometimes for no reason at all. “…he rules a ciphering-book for another victim whose hands have just been flattened by that identical ruler, and who is trying to wipe the sting out with a pocket-handkerchief. I have plenty to do. I don’t watch his eye in idleness, but because I am morbidly attracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, and whether it will be my turn to suffer, or somebody else’s,” “An unhappy culprit, found guilty of imperfect exercise, approaches at his command. The culprit falters excuses, and professes a determination to do better to-morrow. Mr. Creakle cuts a joke before he beats him and we laugh at it- miserable little dogs, we laugh…” (Dickens 83). This portrays the way Dickens felt about school and how the education system was. He openly discusses the realities and calls sympathy from his readers.

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