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Introduction: The Victorian Period begun in 1837 the year Victoria became queen, and ended in 1901 when she dies. This period was the great age of the English novel with realism, thick plots, crowded with characters, and very long. Formerly, it was the ideal form to describe life and to entertain the middle class. However, some of the writers that were very recognized were Charles Dickens, full of drama, humor, and a variety of characters, complicated plots, and a portrayal of how urban life…

inextricably linked to the setting which is utilized to portray themes, reflect on character personalities, situations and emotions. London and Kent are places that become the haven for his characters and their development. Great Expectations is set in Victorian England during the nineteenth century, a time when social changes were occurring at a fast pace throughout the nation. The Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth century had transformed the social and economic landscape, enabling…

Throughout the ages there have been many types of societies on how men and women should act and how women are supposed to be. Many different novels and movies portray different things. In the Novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin the setting is in Grand Isle during the late 1800s. In the Awakening society is based off of the creole lifestyle and is prominent and expected. Adele, Edna and Madame Reisz are friends and characters who are very different in the way they live life and in the way they…

English literature is very diverse but one of the most important parts of it is the English novel. The English novel was born in the first half of the 18th century with a fictional vibe. Then at the beginning of the 19th century, “it is with Jane Austen that the novel takes on its distinctive modern character in the realistic treatment of unremarkable people in the unremarkable situations of everyday life”, (Southam). Austen is considered one of the best writers in all history. She wrote a bunch…

Through the Looking Glass, published in 1971, is a work of children’s fiction by Lewis Carroll. It is the famous sequel to Carroll’s first novel Alice in Wonderland, although it has no reference to its events. Generally referred to as ‘‘nonsense literature’’, it is a story full of humour, riddles and rhymes, all throughout while acting as a satire on the people in Carroll’s life at the time. Unlike general children’s novels that are written to instruct and educate, Carroll’s writings could only…

While poetry was the most dominant genre up to the Romantic Period, the Victorian Era can be considered as the age of the novel, not only did the Victorian Era revolutionized the novel in those times, but it also made it as the most popular form of literary writing that has remained up to present times. The Victorian Era was named after Queen Victoria, who was the first English monarch to see her name given during the period of her reign whilst still living. Victoria’s reign lasted over 63 years…

A Bildungsroman Book The novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens fits into many genres, one of which is called bildungsroman. A bildungsroman is a German genre which can be described as a coming of age novel where the young main character develops and grows throughout the book. In this story the main character Pip starts out as a young boy and finishes a married man, the bildungsroman genre is used by Dickens to convey the growth, mentally and physically, in not only Pip through his life…

“Slapstick” is classed as a style of humor, which involves exaggerated physical activity that takes human common sense to a further level of their mind. The phrase “slapstick" belongs to the Italian language word batacchio. In England it is known as a club-like object combined of two wooden slats used in commedia dell'arte. If the battacchio is struck it makes smacking noise loudly and with such little force it transfers from the object through to the person acting like they have been struck.…

Taking Marting Chuzzlewit as the referent work for the present essay and the main features of Realism previously presented, it is possible to state that, Dickens reflects all these features in this novel making it one of his most characteristic works. Introducing the range of linguistic registers previously mentioned, Dickens places each character in a different social status depending on each character idiolect1. On this basis, it is also essential to point out the importance of Dickens' use of…

Victorian Era The Victorian era occurred during the eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. This time period when compared to how things are done in the twenty-first century, you can definitely see the vast differences. This includes the education, how the health of those varied from class to class and the medicine given out, fashion and those who influenced it, daily village life, marriage laws, and dinner manners at the table. During the Victorian Era, there were…