Grant
Okay I wrote a LOT of notes for this thing about class, women and children, mirror characters (Uriah is David's Wario), and memory. I started to try and compile them but then I felt like I was writing a paper and I got bored. I fear Dickens would be disgusted with me. So instead here's some unconnected thoughts that stuck with me:
This novel popped for me in its tension between childlike innocence and the evil of the adult world. David is a child pretending to be an adult because the structure of society has forced him to.
The coming of age aspect of this novel highlights the meritocracy of the industrial revolution running into the still immobile class structure of British society.
Women fill the gaps of David's life. They take on hard tasks from a precarious social positions in this novel. Their lives are often oriented around men. They are rarely in the foreground.
Okay I wrote a LOT of notes for this thing about class, women and children, mirror characters (Uriah is David's Wario), and memory. I started to try and compile them but then I felt like I was writing a paper and I got bored. I fear Dickens would be disgusted with me. So instead here's some unconnected thoughts that stuck with me:
This novel popped for me in its tension between childlike innocence and the evil of the adult world. David is a child pretending to be an adult because the structure of society has forced him to.
The coming of age aspect of this novel highlights the meritocracy of the industrial revolution running into the still immobile class structure of British society.
Women fill the gaps of David's life. They take on hard tasks from a precarious social positions in this novel. Their lives are often oriented around men. They are rarely in the foreground.