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    Uriah Heep is a villainous character in David Copperfield who acts as the antagonist. He is described as tall, pale, and constantly in motion. Though his name suggests humble origins, he is actually very cunning and manipulative. He works his way into a position of power at Mr. Wickfield's office through flattery and deceit. By exploiting legal technicalities, forging documents, and gaining private information, he is able to take control of Mr. Wickfield's affairs and property from others. As a result, Mr. Wickfield is ruined financially, Agnes suffers emotionally, and Miss Trotwood loses her property, showing Uriah Heep to be a truly black-

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    Uriah Heep is a villainous character in David Copperfield who acts as the antagonist. He is described as tall, pale, and constantly in motion. Though his name suggests humble origins, he is actually very cunning and manipulative. He works his way into a position of power at Mr. Wickfield's office through flattery and deceit. By exploiting legal technicalities, forging documents, and gaining private information, he is able to take control of Mr. Wickfield's affairs and property from others. As a result, Mr. Wickfield is ruined financially, Agnes suffers emotionally, and Miss Trotwood loses her property, showing Uriah Heep to be a truly black-

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    Uriah Heep is a villainous character in David Copperfield who acts as the antagonist. He is described as tall, pale, and constantly in motion. Though his name suggests humble origins, he is actually very cunning and manipulative. He works his way into a position of power at Mr. Wickfield's office through flattery and deceit. By exploiting legal technicalities, forging documents, and gaining private information, he is able to take control of Mr. Wickfield's affairs and property from others. As a result, Mr. Wickfield is ruined financially, Agnes suffers emotionally, and Miss Trotwood loses her property, showing Uriah Heep to be a truly black-

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    Uriah Heep is a villainous character in David Copperfield who acts as the antagonist. He is described as tall, pale, and constantly in motion. Though his name suggests humble origins, he is actually very cunning and manipulative. He works his way into a position of power at Mr. Wickfield's office through flattery and deceit. By exploiting legal technicalities, forging documents, and gaining private information, he is able to take control of Mr. Wickfield's affairs and property from others. As a result, Mr. Wickfield is ruined financially, Agnes suffers emotionally, and Miss Trotwood loses her property, showing Uriah Heep to be a truly black-

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    URIAH HEEP

    Uriah Heep is ultimate villains, appearing in the book David Copperfield where he acts as
    antagonist, He’s memorable for Dickens’ interesting descriptions of him: tall and lanky,
    pale white with pale red hair, and a propensity to constant movement or wiggling.

    Charles dickens’ character signify a lot through their name ,Uriah Heep name suggest his
    quality. Uriah is Hebrew for "God Is My Light," which might represent his "umble" nature.
    But his last name "Heep" contradicts that. Like what Mr. Micawber says, he is a "HEEP"
    ("heap" means layers on top of each other) of trouble. Uriah is also complex--he is humble
    on the surface but manipulative in the inside.

    He is the clerk of Mr. Wickfield and David meets Heeps at Mr. Wickfield’s house . at that he
    is only of fifteen, but looks much older. His face is Cadaverous, and has no eyebrow or eye
    lashes. he has long ,lean and skeleton hands which are so damp and cold that David has to
    rub his hands for them to make warm.

    Uriah Heep in incarnation of hypocrisy. He pretends humility; the word “umble”(humble) is


    always at his lips. He is also cringing (abject) and flattering in his manners. But all this
    humility is a mere show, a cover for his cunningness and deceitfulness. It is his ambition to
    become a partner in the firm of wickfield and finally to marry Agnes. He is working all the
    time to fulfill his desire.

    His cunning and hypocrisy generates horror and disgust .very shrewdly he proceed to put
    out Mr. Wick field off power. First he tries to know all about his private life and his
    business secretes .it is to know this information he invites David to his home and reveals
    out all the information from him. then he studies law to master the legal intricacies and
    technicalities so as to use them in his plot against Mr. Wick field; he then gets signature of
    Mr. Wick field on important documents, resulting in poor fellow is under his control. He
    also commits forgeries resulting in the loss of Miss Beatsy Tretwood’s property.he becomes
    partner by exploiting Mr. Wick field

    Uriah Heep is a black- hearted villain who causes suffering to all. Because of him Mr.
    Wickfield becomes poor , Agnes suffered intense spiritual agony , for she knows that her
    father is in hands of villain. Miss Trottwood is also victim of his villainy, and David , too ,
    was put to trouble and suffering . David has to work as a secretary to support as well as a
    reporter to support her aunt.

    David’s poverty becomes an obstacle in the way of his marriage with Dora . only after the
    death of Mr. splenow’s death he gets married to Dora.

    Thus Uriah serves a foil to David and contrasts David’s qualities of innocence and
    compassion with his own corruption.

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