İNCEOĞLU, Şeydâ Pamukkale Üniversitesi - Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi - Batı Dilleri ve Edebiyatları Bölümü, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı, Turkey

PERPLEXING MASTER-SERVANT RELATIONSHIPS IN DAVID COPPERFIELD: CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS

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In David Copperfield, Charles Dickens presents diversities in the treat-ment of servants: contrary to David Copperfield’s intimate relations with the family servant, Clara Peggotty, he portrays Steerforth’s relationship with his man-servant Littimer and his mother’s companion Rosa Dartle, which is prob-lematic in the sense of master-servant relationships. Class in David Copperfield, represents itself in a fixed manner, in other words, as in Victorian wealthy fami-lies’ manner, in spite of lower class people’s potential for feeling, their genero-sity, affectionate attentiveness for others. In this study, how class differences are represented through characters is going to be scrutinized.

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Charles Dickens , David Copperfield , Victorian England , Master , Servant Relationship , Class Consciousness

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