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▲'''David Copperfield''' is a serial novel written by [[Charles Dickens]], about a boy growing up. His [[Adult Child]] mother Clara dies early on, leaving him in the care of Mr. Edward Murdstone, his [[Wicked Stepmother|evil stepfather]]. Murdstone in turn heartlessly turns little Davey out into the big bad world, first in a [[Boarding School of Horrors]] in which he's beaten up and humiliated on a regular basis, then to earn his own living in a factory. While navigating [[Victorian London]] at the tender age of ten or so, David boards with the Micawbers, a good-natured but completely irresponsible family who make him pawn the silver to buy supper and eventually end up in debtor's prison.
Desperate, David runs away, finally reaching a safe haven with his eccentric Aunt Betsey Trotwood - who magnanimously forgives him for not being a girl - and her own... interesting... coterie. It's at this point David meets Uriah Heep, an evil clerk in the family law office, who cheats Aunt Betsey out of her fortune ''just'' as David's fallen hopelessly in love with his boss' daughter Dora. Meanwhile, his [[Purity Sue|sweet, beautiful best friend]] Agnes Wickfield is being menaced by a fate worse than death, ie. marriage to the loathsome Heep. Even Micawber, now Heep's clerk, is acting strangely. Oh, and over in the main subplot, David's oldest and dearest schoolfriend, James Steerforth, is busily seducing and ruining David's childhood sweetheart, little Emily...
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** Uriah to David, Uriah to Traddles, Uriah to Steerforth, Traddles/Sophy to David/Agnes and David/Dora [[The King and I|&c, &c, &c ...]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: David's attachment to women like his mother, and Uriah Heep's issues with humility via his father.
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: several of the lower class characters, and especially Uriah Heep ("We're very umble, mother and me...")
* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: [[Uriah Heep]].
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