how to do household chores, but her devotion to David is extremely touching and admirable, and it wins David »s heart. Finally, Mr. Dick, very simple-minded, is perhaps the best-liked character in the novel.simplicity and innocence thus are valued in the moral world of the novel. When Dickens writes scenes that show cruelty to children, he most likely is demonstrating an evil to raise readers passions against such cruelty.novel explores feminine power to some degree, seeming to favor strong, powerful women, such as Peggotty and Miss Betsey. In contrast, women who do not hold much power or who simply exist in their marriages, such as Clara Copperfield, do not fare very well.Betsey, an admired character throughout the novel, fights against her husband and manages to acquire a divorce, a feat that was not simple for women at the time (although he continues to bother her for money some time afterward) .. and Mrs. Micawber, however, are a good example of a married couple in which each spouse holds almost an equal amount of power, and they are a very happy couple, even though they are broke. Thus, Dickens seems to be a proponent of feminine power in the sense of basic equality in institutions such as marriage.role of the father figure is one of the first issues that comes up in the novel, for David is born six months after his father dies. Dickens is apparently suggesting that a father figure is essential for happiness and developing a good character. Still, not all fathers or father figures fit the norm or are even beneficial. Peggotty seems to be David's father figure growing up, for he describes her as large and «hard». Thus, he has a disciplinary figure along with his warm, loving mother to give him a balanced childhood.Emily and Ham have Mr. Peggotty, and both turn out to be very good people, especially Ham. Little Emily is simply seduced by Steerforth, who, as it turns out, never had a father figure and even admits that he regrets that and wishes that he could have had a father figure so that he could be a better person. Uriah has no father mentioned either, and he is one of the most evil characters in the novel.
1.4 Good and evil manifestations of wealth in Great Expectations
Great Expectations s characters define wealth in different ways. Some solely consider wealth to be monetary. Others perceive wealth in more general terms and as the means by which one might access society. Wealth serves to motivate individuals and to drive them to destroy others. Wealth promises freedom and the realization of dreams, but it never delivers upon these promises.Dickens s creations the language and metaphor of money, the terms of indebtedness, lending, borrowing, rates of payment and return tell us what money can do, how it can change distinctions of class, how it can completely alter the conditions of life.money is not in itself evil, we see that the drive to get money accounts for large areas of human wickednesss - depending on what is done to obtain it and how it is finally spent. Money affects such a vast area of ??human nature and human activity that it stands for things and men as they are.the nineteenth century money came to represent and make accessible to human ambition the means to satisfy vanity and selfish materialism, to gain advantage, power , and luxury.attacks money, then, because it corrupts morality and all decent values.Throughout his work, ...
