Actually, the novel is the story of the adventures of David’s consciousness, from the period before his birth, in Chapter I, to the discovery of language and self and the achievement of identity through book-writing. His existence and identity are closely dependent on language, as he needs words to retrace his progress from non-existence into being from silence, unconsciousness, and inarticulate life to language, and lastly, from mere existence to selfhood, self-awareness, self-mastery and self-(re)construction through words. The forms and functions of language are a crucial problem to address in David Copperfield as a novel, but also for David Copperfield, the character and narrator of this fictional autobiography.
The Forms and Functions of Language in David Copperfield
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