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Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his 1850 novel David Copperfield. Heep is the primary antagonist during the second part of the novel. His character is notable for his sycophancy.
Uriah Heep, fictional character, the unctuous villain in Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield (1849–50). The name Uriah Heep has become a byword for a falsely humble.
Dickens’s physical description of Uriah marks Uriah as a demonic character. He refers to Uriah’s movements as snakelike and gives Uriah red hair and red eyes. Uriah and David not only have opposing characteristics but also operate at cross-purposes.
David also becomes quickly interested in the peculiarities of Wickfield's young clerk, Uriah Heep, a deferential and self-effacing person whose principal gratification in life is...
Feb 7, 2012 · Uriah Heep is unique in that respect (and many others) and in part it's simply because Dickens made this villain from "David Copperfield" so repulsive – bereft of eyelashes and brows, high ...
In the moral universe of this novel, we have seen plenty of signs that Dickens approves of men improving their lives through hard work at a profession – after all, like Uriah Heep, both David and Traddles become law clerks and achieve some social stability as a result. What differentiates Uriah Heep from these two is that he never connects ...
Race, Sexuality and Dickens s Uriah Heep 49 anxieties. Uriah figures as the novel's ultimate scapegoat, with racial characteristics offering a key explanation for his deviant behaviour and appearance. While Uriah embodies an inclusive mark of racial difference, he may most clearly be aligned with anti-Semitic representations of 'the Jew'.
