Instability of Mother-Son Relationship in Charles Dickens’ Novel David Copperfield

Dealing with motherhood issue is considered a controversial one since building a child identity and preparing him/her to be a good and successful person depends mostly on the relationship between the child and the mother. Though different studies tackled toxic, good, stable etc. Mother-son relationships; still there is more can carried out to explore instability in mother-son relationship. This article intends to investigate instability in mother-son relationship in Charles Dickens' novel “The Personal Life of David Copperfield”. The Data involves certain extracts representing David's relationship with his mother Clara Copperfield. The article aims to identify how David's instable relationship with his mother is portrayed and point out the difference emotional reflections drawn in David's