PORTRAYAL OF CHILDHOOD AND SUFFERING IN CHARLES DICKENS’ 'DAVID COPPERFIELD' (Pages 72-78) by Mrs. A. Vara Lakshmi Devi*, Dr. V. Sri Rama Murthy** and Dr. V.B. Chitra*** in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

The present paper aims at studying the suffering of children and their living conditions in Victorian era. It is well known by the great development of the industrial revolution which had officially begun in 1950.It marks the most fundamental transformation of human life in the history of life. It created profound changes in the society; the worst was child labor a phenomenon that culminated in that period. The growing of population made a world of children, who lived in the work houses and were expected to work at the age of six or seven. Apart from this dickens also portrays the brutal treatment of children at the work houses. The present selected paper for research is David Copperfield which is Charles dickens Master piece and autobiographical novel which shows the social background of English society at that time. It is a novel that recounts poverty is bad. It is poverty that leaves David isolated and without a future as a child laborer in London. The research paper shows how a ten years David faced his hurdles in his childhood and how he suffered to have his own living as an orphan boy and how he get out of this sufferings and how his fate ended with his new happy life.he present paper aims at studying the suffering of children and their living conditions in Victorian era. It is well known by the great development of the industrial revolution which had officially begun in 1950.It marks the most fundamental transformation of human life in the history of life. It created profound changes in the society; the worst was child labor a phenomenon that culminated in that period. The growing of population made a world of children, who lived in the work houses and were expected to work at the age of six or seven. Apart from this dickens also portrays the brutal treatment of children at the work houses. The present selected paper for research is David Copperfield which is Charles dickens Master piece and autobiographical novel which shows the social background of English society at that time. It is a novel that recounts poverty is bad. It is poverty that leaves David isolated and without a future as a child laborer in London. The research paper shows how a ten years David faced his hurdles in his childhood and how he suffered to have his own living as an orphan boy and how he get out of this sufferings and how his fate ended with his new happy life.Key words: Copper Field, suffering, childhood and poverty.