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Due to his prosperity he was insolent and arrogant. Uriah Heep was successful in his conspiracy. His malicious informing of Doctor Strong about Annie is a form of motiveless malignity against human happiness itself, for he positively delights in it, though it is no affair of his. His disgusting desire to marry Agnes is merely a part of his ambition, loathsome not merely because of his personal characteristics but because it goes hand in hand with his determination to wreck her father. Fraud and forgery are only two of the methods he adopts, not merely to ruin Wickfield financially but indeed to undermine his sanity. To say that he bit the hand that fed him is to put it mildly. If hypocrisy is the method of his mind, unscrupulous ambition and criminal ruthlessness are the characteristics of his nature, as exemplified in his treatment of Mr. His Unscrupulous Ambition and Criminal Ruthlessness It was his misfortune that Tommy Traddles proved more intelligent than he and made him face certain facts that brought him down on his knees. Micawber and the party who had come to expose him till the very end. Because he was a heartless villain with abundance of vulgar courage, he continued to bluff Mr. Micawber, he tried to snatch the documents from him. It is on account of this quality which we find in him that he causes unhappiness in the life of Miss Betsey Trotwood, David, Agnes, Mr. Uriah Heep seems to have developed a character of a misanthrope. He also forged certain documents to serve his ends. Wickfield in the dubious transaction in regard to Miss Trotwood’s property. Had he this trait, he would not have tried to deceive his employer, Mr. In fact, he had a temperament for prostituting the law for his selfish ends. He used the garb of humility to conceal his real self. David Copperfield as an Autobiographical Novel.This hypocrisy is deliberate and rehearsed. In his ‘umbleness’ and later in jail in his professions he is hypocritical. Wickelfid and in that way is responsible for the unhappiness of the Wickfield, Micawber, and Trotwood families. He is scheming and succeeds in manipulating Mr. Strong and in his ruining Aunt Betsey so that he might injure David whom he hated because of Agnes’s love for David. He is vengeful in his revealing the gossip about Mrs. In conversation he would rub his hands between his knees and writhe his body like a snake. “Uriah Heep’s leading characteristic is hypocrisy, his inordinate ambition, ravening egoism and rancour against society being cloaked under a constantly reiterate profession of ‘umbleness’.” Uriah Heep’s Deceitful Methods
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But all his humility is a mere pretext i.e. He always says that they are humble people, i.e., he and his mother. Uriah Heep is the very incarnation of hypocrisy.