This part of the plan – the marriage with Agnes – Uriah Heep tells David point-blank when the Wickfields come to visit London while David is working at his proctor's office. Wickfield's life and (2) he wants to guilt Agnes Wickfield into marrying him.

Wickfield is slowly fading away, while Uriah Heep sinks his claws more and more deeply into the business.) Uriah Heep has two goals in mind: (1) he wants to take over Mr. Until everything is revealed, all we know is that Mr. (By the way, all of this comes out at the end of the novel, in a confrontation with Mr. Wickfield into signing Uriah Heep as a partner of his law office. Wickfield can't remember signing them, but he also can't explain the evidence of his own financial wrongdoing that Uriah Heep has shoved in his face. Wickfield receipts for crazy investments and loans with Mr. To make the trap even harder to get out of, Uriah Heep starts showing Mr. Wickfield never really likes or trusts him – he feels that he has no choice). Wickfield relies on Uriah Heep completely (even though Mr. Slowly, he takes over more and more of Mr. Wickfield is depressed over his wife's death and has a severe drinking problem. Uriah Heep's scheme is this: he is a law clerk for Mr. He can only express his desire to climb the social ladder by emphasizing how low he is on it. Uriah Heep's ambition is all twisted in on itself.

Oddly, 'umbleness' is Uriah Heep's chosen road to power. But weirdly, if you take pride in being the lowliest, most kowtowing, crawling fellow out there, isn't that a kind of arrogance? Uriah Heep is constantly congratulating himself for being the best at something – even if that something is groveling in front of his social betters. Everything, for Uriah Heep, is 'umble' (a.k.a. Uriah assures David: 'I am well aware that I am the umblest person going My mother is likewise a very umble person.' (16.90). She's a lot like Uriah, actually, and they're both totally obsessed with maintaining the appearance of humility. Uriah Heep lives with his mother, who is completely devoted to him. Wickfield's judgment is too weakened by his own problems to realize that he shouldn't be employing this creepy kid. But in spite of the clear foreshadowing, Mr. David is only 11 at this point, but even he is smart enough to see that Uriah Heep isn't trustworthy. These cold, long, white hands of Uriah Heep stand in for the inhumanity of the rest of him: he is like a dead thing, totally immune to any kind of human warmth or sympathy. We know from the outset that this is going to be a bad guy because he looks so completely repulsive: he's got a pale face, red eyes (like Voldemort!), and 'a long, lank, skeleton hand, which particularly attracted my attention' (15.21). Wickfield's home and going to school in Canterbury). Wickfield's law office (this is while David is boarding at Mr. David first meets Uriah Heep when Uriah is 15 years old and working as a clerk in Mr. And he will never stop – at least, not until he runs up against the unlikely resistance of all-too-human Mr. He's like a really slow-acting version of the Terminator, bent on the destruction of anyone and everyone who has it better than him.

Uriah Heep is not a person he's an evil machine.

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