In his novels, Charles Dickens depicts a wide range of female characters, both in terms of social class and their various moral strengths and weaknesses. He wrote in the Victorian era, when women were expected to be wives and mothers whose main job was to manage the household and carry out domestic chores. The ideal Victorian woman was also admired for her pure values ​​and capacity for self-sacrifice. In David Copperfield, the main protagonist suffers greatly during his childhood, but manages to find solace through his interpersonal relationships with different women, including Dora Spenlow and Agnes Wickfield. David marries these two women and, ironically, they are complete opposites of each other. Dora is David's first. Within these marriages, readers understand how education plays an important role in a successful marriage, as it fulfills both of their dreams of personal identity. Although in the 19th century women were seen as superior wives and mothers, managing the household and performing domestic chores, it was important for women to become educated because "an education was believed to enable these girls to become successful women in society” ( Leigh 117). Women weren't supposed to be "trained" in any way to be good wives, but they were supposed to be formally educated to be successful and I loved Dora Spenlow to madness! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was – everything no one has ever seen, and everything everyone ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pause on the brink; no looking down or looking back; I left, head bowed, before having the idea of ​​saying a word to him. (Dickens 397) It is simply a strong physical attraction that David feels for Dora, and he "disappeared" and "swallowed up" in an instant by her beauty. David idolizes Dora from the beginning thinking that she is perfect and incapable of doing anything wrong. From the beginning, Dora's strength is beauty and youth, but being young and beautiful only goes so far and doesn't last long. David's love story begins the moment he sees Dora and he quickly develops an obsession with her: "How many cups of tea have I drunk, because Dora did, I do not know" (Dickens 404). David continues “to love Dora, stronger than ever” and confesses his love to her, and they are soon engaged (Dickens