Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel.Ĭharles Dickens said of this novel: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts, a favourite child, and his name is David Copperfield." Not surprising, since the main character was basically Dickens himself, polished and idealized in a few places, made a bit more tragic in others, and given a happier ending than Dickens felt he'd gotten. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction. Published as a novel in 1850 published serially a year earlier.
Such narrative structuring creates far greater performances than standalone stage tricks, such as tugging rabbits out of hats.Inverarity One-line summary: Charles Dickens's semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman about the eponymous orphan and his rise from a hard-knocks childhood to life as a novelist.
There's a beginning and set-up (David stands on one side of the wall), a complication in the middle (the audience waits in anticipation and wonders whether the trick will even work), and an end where tension gets resolved (David appears on the other side of the wall). Take his "Great Wall of China" illusion (viewable on YouTube). As he said, "I was inspired to bring storytelling to magic, romance, choreography - all the elements of film and theater that I loved."Ĭopperfield's focus on storytelling is pretty clear. Fred Astaire (pictured above with Ginger Rogers), Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles, even Alfred Hitchcock - these are just some of the figures from whom Copperfield drew inspiration. As Copperfield said in an interview with Forbes, his greatest career influences weren't death-defying stunt magicians like Houdini, but old-timey dancers, actors, singers, and directors.
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