Dickens is known world wide for his unique style of writing. Dickens, in his writing seperates his novels into two different societies, the congenial and the obstructive. In David Copperfield, Dickens shifts back and forth between both societies.Dickens portrays many examples of a congenial society in his book David Copperfield. Along with the congenial views he also includes obstructive views to balance the book out. " David Copperfield's life before his mother married Mr. Murdstone …showed first 75 words of 2138 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2138 total…Brothers, 1971), p. 174. 3.Bert G. Hornback, "Noah's Arkitecture": A Study of Dickens's Mythology (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1972), repr. in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1987), p. 95. 4.J. Hillis Miller, Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), repr. in Buckley, Norton edition, p. 814. 5.Angus Wilson, The World of Charles Dickens (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), pp. 213-14, 216. 6.Virginia Woolf, 'David Copperfield', in The Moment and Other Essays (London: Hogarth Press, 1947), p. 75.