IV. The Women Of David Copperfield – Dora, Agnes and Betsey Trotwood
Among the many female characters the reader gets to know throughout the story of
David Copperfield’s life, there are mainly three who stand out among all the
other women in the novel and who play a central role in the life of the main
character.
Those women are Dora Spenlow, the first wife of David Copperfield,
Agnes Wickfield, Copperfield’s childhood friend and second wife and Betsey
Trotwood, David’s Aunt and permanent companion from childhood on. Those women
all have in common that they play a pivotal role in the main character’s life,
but each of them represents a different kind of woman.
And which kind of woman each of them symbolizes and what the social consequences
for each of them subsequently are, shall be analysed in the following two
points.
