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SP Diary
GAP
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Audience: Personal use, perhaps aware that his diary may be published for those interested in Britain history
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Lexical fields of war
- & natural destruction
- wind & water
- Links to Pepys time in the Navy
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Context
16th Century
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Poverty
- Social divide between working & upper class
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Plague
- 2nd tragedy in reign of Charles II
Poor hygiene
- 1/3 died before the age of 16
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Syntax
- Compound complex sentences
- Shows Pepys level of education
'and among other things, the poor pigeons, I perceive, were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows & balcony, till they burned their wings, and fell down'
- Fragmented, and broken down suggests panic.
- Clauses become more and more emotive -> produces a tragic image
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- Lacks clarity at points
- Detailed
- Chronological
- Covers only the day of the fire