Publication 615
By JustMe on
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This is what I've written so far. Sure, it's not the best, but I will definitely be "polishing" it, trust me. I think I'm just about finished with part A; all I have to do is break it down, add and/or edit here and there. Part B, it seriously needs help. My guidelines are in the above posts. I've written a bit, but there's still some things that need to be added...
Any suggestions?!
A:
David Copperfield has a heroic, comprehensive personality. He is a thoroughly decent man, illustrated in his love and commitment to those he cherishes, and further exemplified in his honesty and kindness. He lives up to the promise he made to his first wife, Dora, that he would work as hard as he can to make their lives together possible. Despite Dora being a wretched housewife - very incapable of managing household chores - David still loves her without fail. David cannot bear to displease her; permitting her to maintain her spoiled habits. David, being the honest soul that he is, is disgusted by falsehoods and dishonesty. This fires his hatred of Heep, who, along with Murdstone, is the arch-villain of the story. Heep's deceit towards Agnes's father angers David to the point of violence. However, his true kindness and dislike for cruelty stems from the abuse he suffered as a child. Hence, he looks down on and even feels sorry for the Murdstone's as an adult. Similarly, he feels great sadness at what his friend Steerforth has done to Ham and Mr. Peggorty. David did change - fully maturing as an adult - after Dora's passing. It is then that he truly grows up, with a more mature outlook on life; searching for a someone to love that who will challenge and help him grow. He reaches this stage of maturity and truly changes when he expresses the sentiment that he values his true love, Agnes' calm tranquility over all else in his life. Despite his maturity changing him, one thing remained the same. Life was not always kind to him, yet he remained a moral, committed, and honest man, triumphing over a tragic childhood. David Copperfield is a decent man with human failings.
B:
David faces both interior conflict - struggling with himself - and exterior conflict - the struggle of becoming a man in a callous world, with little money and few people to guide him on his journey. David, as a boy, suffered abuse at the hand of his stepfather, and, as a young man, fell into alcohol abuse and infatuation, as chronicled in his dinner party with Steerforth and his obsession over Dora. Before David could obtain true love, he had to learn to curb these excesses and become the victor of his own emotions. As he brings his heart under the control of his mind, David finally realizes his love for Agnes. By firmly believing in this love, even though he does not believe that she loves him, he ultimately wins her.
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