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LITERATURE and LANGUAGE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - To entertein
      - To exposes the abuses and follies
        of contemporary society
    - - “The rape of the Locke”
        
        Mock-heroic poem to ridicule the English
        aristocracy’s superficiality and lack of values
    - - “The vanity of human wishes”
        
        Imitation of Latin classics
- - - - Parody and critique of fashionable society
      - Central theme: relationship man-woman,
        marriage= social alliance
      - Congreve (author)
    - - Steele (author)
    - - Goldensmith (author)
        
        Misunderstandings and mistaken identities
        (humors)
  - - - He satirized contemporary pubic figures
        and so-called good society
- - - - Realistic details
        
        Stress on contemporary reality
        
        Realistic language
        
        Chronological sequence of events
        
        Novelty of the stories
      - Main novels:
        
        “Robinson Crusoe” by Defoe
        
        “Gulliver’s travels” by Swift ➡️ Utopian novel
        
        “Pamela” by Richardson➡️ Epistolary novel
        
        “Tom Jones” by Fielding➡️ Picaresque novel
        
        “Sentimental journey” by Sterne
        (Tristam Shandy) ➡️ Sentimental novel
  - - - Middle class heroes
        
        Enterprise and commercial wisdom
        
        Faith in God’s favour
        
        Temperance, modesty and sobriety
        
        Heroines