The World of David Copperfield: Living Literature



- List the various moral and social aspects that Dickens chooses to criticize.
- Read a satire by another nineteenth-century novelist. Compare the issues that concerned the authors.
- Write a short story in which you satirize one aspect of today’s society. Create at least one caricature to emphasize your point.
- Who warns Copperfield about Steerforth’s character?
- What characteristic does Dickens caricature through Mr. Micawber?
- In what unusual structure did the Peggotty family live?
- To what country did the Peggotty family immigrate near the end of the book?
- satire
- caricature
- monotonous
- inducement