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VICTORIAN AGE - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN AGE
CHARLES DICKENS
His novels were influenced by gotic novels, bible, fairy tales and nursery rhymes
We find some realistic details in his novels, like real places of London
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Social issues: in most of his late novels he wanted to express a refuse of capitalism and the bad effect of industrial revolution
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HARD TIMES
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Mr Gradgrind, director of a school, ask his teachers to teach "Nothing but facts"
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The run that people focus on facts and statistics make the fear that humans could become a kind of machine and he criticized the materialism
ALFRED TENNYSON
Most important victorian poet, his poetry reflects tendencies of his time
Investigation of the poet's feelings, instrument to analize his feelings and share its complexity
Dramatic monologue: speaker is a single character, add resses an audience and share personal feelings with a silence audience
ULYSSES
Ulysses is a legend because of what he did, the war of Troy and the adventure and the danger he forced
Materialistic life: inhabitants of Itaca are savage, they don't know him, they aren't interested to know his ambition
Ulysses follow the knowledge "like a sinking star", so like a desire, that embodies the essence of Ulysses
Contrast between Ulysses and his child Telemachus, that embodies what ulysses si not
Victorian Novel: become the most famous novels over the literature world, most of the novels were published in instalments
Realism: victorian novelist used to describe society and show real things. They denounce all the bad aspects bute it doesn't had a political function
Most of them in the last part of the novel eplained everything and justified everything and the reader find the key words
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OSCAR WILDE,
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Theme of double: Dorian is a rich and respectable man, but it isa criminal and only his copy, the portrait show this part
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LOUIS STEVENSON,
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
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Style
4 narrators: Mr Utterson, Enfield, Dr Lanyon and Dr Jekyll
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Victorian Compromise: period of contraddition caracterised by poverty of the working class and progress of the upper/middle class