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PROVA DI VERIFICA
SECONDO QUADRIMESTRE
•1) In The Dead Joyce uses the interior monologue, while in Ulysses he adopts the stream of consciousness. In The Dead Gabriel's thoughts are expressed through free indirect speech, but they are rather simple to follow and to understand because of the presence of connectors and deictics, that is to say the thought that crosses Gabriel's mind are filtered by the narrator. In the final episode of Joyce's Ulysses, Molly thoughts are expressed as they cross Molly's mind: without connectors, deictics and without explicit links (that often depend on the sound - the signifier - of the words she uses).
•2) Both the interior monologue and the dramatic monologue express a character's thoughts and feelings through the mediation of the narrator that adds connections and explanations. The interior monologue (for example Gabriel's monologue in The Dead) can be conveyed in the third (through the use of free indirect speech)or the first person, and it expresses feelings and thoughts, but there is no addressee. The character is just reflecting. Instead in the dramatic monologue, the character always speaks directly and there is always an addressee: another character or a public, as if he were in a theatre.
•3) Because Joyce used Ulysses's myth and the structure of Odyssey as a metaphor of life in his Ulysses. Even if the idea of life and values are very different in classic age from the ones of the modern age, the use of myth creates coherence in Joyce's novel.
•4) The Victorian Age is the period of English history in which Queen Victoria reigned (from 1937 to 1901). During this period Great Britain knew a strong industrialisation and that's why people had a strong faith in progress. Anyway in this period the worst aspects of progress came to the surface, that's why it is considered an age of contradictions. The most important social class was the middle class, that also established its values, based on Puritanism.
•5) The dramatic monologue was first used during the Victorian Age. Tennyson, in his Ulysses, uses this technique.
•6) They are both techniques that expresses a character's thoughts and feelings and even if the character is just reflecting (in both about the sense of life and death, considered also as absence of actions), the monologue are organised in order to be conveyed to a public (in a theatre) and they can be represented in a scene (on a stage).
•7) No, it isn't because the reader can't find connectors, deictics and explanations. Thoughts and feelings are expressed as they cross human beings' minds and so without punctuation and explicit links. So it is very difficult to understand how and why the character goes from a though or a memory to another.
•8) The role of woman in the Victorian Age was that of the faithful wife and mother. Her only task was looking after the family and the house.
•9) On one side she can be considered a Victorian character because she belongs to high-middle class, she is interested in parties and so on. Anyway she seems not to have the certainties of Victorian people and she reflects on topics that are typical of the Modern Age, rather than the Victorian Age (for example time). She is also "common middle-aged woman" (feature of modernism) and she reflects on trivial aspects of her past and present life.
•10) I think she is a modern woman, because her task is not simply to look after her sons and house but also her husband, who needs sympathy. She is also a middle aged woman and she doesn't do something particular: she just reflects on the "trivial" aspects of life and on her relationship with her husband.
•11) I think that the odd out is Tennyson's Ulysses. As a matter of fact he is a hero and a king, he is not a common person, he reflects on high aspects of life and he is sure of his choices. Instead Mr Ramsay and Leopold Bloom, are modern characters, common people whose weakness and uncertainties are underlined.