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David Copperfield is one of the novels of Charles Dickens, set in the classic "rags to riches" mode.
In the Jack Pulman screen adaptation, young David's mother dies three years after marrying a man who forces her to give over the management of the household to his sister. When David's stepfather beats him with a cane and is bitten in return, he sends him off to boarding school, where his schoolmasters (portrayed by Laurence Olivier and Richard Attenborough) force him to wear a sign saying: "Beware: this dog bites". The school's head boy, Steerforth, destroys the sign and stands up to the headmaster.