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1. Victorian fiction is so important because first of all artists weren't able to openly express their opinion about Industrial society; the need to depict the growing contrast between rich and poor was another reason; it was also useful for English propaganda to rise the importance of filanthropy; last but not least, Victorian society was unable to conceive a social development.
2. The ideal reader in the Victorian novel was the lower-middle class worker.
3. Novels were published in installments because in this way they could become more popular.
4. The main contents of the Victorian novel are society and its vices, as well as the social development of a young character.
5. Class was one of the most important topics of the novel because making money was the only aim in Industrial revolution. Beter workers could improve society better.
6. Dicken's fiction is characterized by parodic exageration. Different classes are totally separate between one another. Other stylistic choices include metaphors, aliterations and the use of several latinate words.
7. Pathos is the struggle created in the description of an intollerable situation. It works by exagerating vices or evils.
8. The grotesque is realted to a parodistic view of society and usually is rendered by paradoxes.
9. Philanthropy was a sort of masque for rich people, who didn't want to be criticized for their egoism and greed.
10. Since newspapers weren't read that much, novels were considered the only device for lower classes to come into contact with social development.
11. The words used to describe the characters play a fundamental role in Victorian novel, because they can give the intelligent reader some tools to have a better understanding of what Victorian society was like.
12. Caricature was basic because novelists couldn't openly express their criticisms.
13. The Victorian novel reproduces the contradictions of the middle class because although being puritan, businessmen continuously disattended their Christian beliefs; besides, philanthropy was a common habit also among cruel hypocrites.
14. Today's world of the media uses obsessive symbolism in order to compel the people to buy more and more products, some of these symbols are the same used in Victorian literature. (e.g. the serpent).
2. The ideal reader in the Victorian novel was the lower-middle class worker.
3. Novels were published in installments because in this way they could become more popular.
4. The main contents of the Victorian novel are society and its vices, as well as the social development of a young character.
5. Class was one of the most important topics of the novel because making money was the only aim in Industrial revolution. Beter workers could improve society better.
6. Dicken's fiction is characterized by parodic exageration. Different classes are totally separate between one another. Other stylistic choices include metaphors, aliterations and the use of several latinate words.
7. Pathos is the struggle created in the description of an intollerable situation. It works by exagerating vices or evils.
8. The grotesque is realted to a parodistic view of society and usually is rendered by paradoxes.
9. Philanthropy was a sort of masque for rich people, who didn't want to be criticized for their egoism and greed.
10. Since newspapers weren't read that much, novels were considered the only device for lower classes to come into contact with social development.
11. The words used to describe the characters play a fundamental role in Victorian novel, because they can give the intelligent reader some tools to have a better understanding of what Victorian society was like.
12. Caricature was basic because novelists couldn't openly express their criticisms.
13. The Victorian novel reproduces the contradictions of the middle class because although being puritan, businessmen continuously disattended their Christian beliefs; besides, philanthropy was a common habit also among cruel hypocrites.
14. Today's world of the media uses obsessive symbolism in order to compel the people to buy more and more products, some of these symbols are the same used in Victorian literature. (e.g. the serpent).