1. Why is fiction so important during the Victorian age?  List and least for reason

2.who was the ideal reading public of the Victorian novel?

3.why are novels published in instoleaments?

4. what are the main contents of the Victorian novel?

5. with references to the industrial evolution process explain why class was one of the most important topic of the novel

6. illustrate the most important stylistic choices in Dickenson fictions

7. explain what pathos is and how it works

8. the grotesque is one of the main ingredients of Victorian fiction. Explain what is and how it works

9. explain how philanthropy worked as an alibi for people

10. explain why the Victorian novel played a fundamental rule on legislator and opinion formers

11. characterization in Victorian fiction is one of the features intelligent reader can not forget. Discuss

12. explain the rule of caricature

13. say why the Victorian novel mainly reproduces the contradiction of the middle class. Try to say  what in contemporary culture is very much similar to the Victorian production in the world of the media

14. fact is a key word in Dickenson production. Discuss

1. fiction is important because, in an age where rationalism and control are excited , it is the estimate parameter to appreciate a person. Class affiliation was due by the family apparent behaviour and by it rule in the society.

2.Middle class was the ideal reading public of the Victorian novels

4. the most characteristic theme of Victorian novels is class. The novels describe in an hyperbolic way the real world of industrialization in an detached point of view and often following the adventure of a middle class family. in the novels villains are caricature of evil and virtues are often defenceless.

5. The industrialization process stress the economic and social distance between the capitalistic middle class and the working class. Victorian age push people to improve their position in the social ladder, but it do not immediately understand that wealth do not comport wellbeing for a lot of people that in this period worsen their life stile. In the novels there is the denunciation of this system

6. Dickenson imprints a lots of important stylistic choices in his novel. First at all he uses a third omniscient narrator and he uses an hyperbolic exploit of the language to stress the sense of negative irony that the reader can feel in the novels

7. The pathos in the stories derives from the sense of persecution and defenceless of virtuous people in Victorian age novels

8. In fiction, characters are usually considered grotesque if they induce both empathy and disgust. The reader could understand the behaviour of the oppressor characters but at the same time he feels disgust.

9. philanthropy is a way for capitalists to wash their conscious by the lots of injustice that they procure

10. the Victorian novel played a fundamental rule on legislator and opinion formers because novels now speaks about real problems of this époque and they can have a very large audience to push to reflect for a better way to live in this world

11. characterization is important because is the base of a test, it is important because it low the story in a precise place and in a precise time

12. the writer uses caricatures to emphasize the personality of the character, the contradictions of the industrial system of production and to prevent the reader could identify himself in any character of the story

13. Victorian novels represent and condemn the contradiction of first industrialization age because writers want, with their works, give a representation of their society to shake legislators, opinion formers and people in general

14.facts are the main key word in Victorian age industrial process. The human being is reduced to action in production system, people became machines at the service of other machines.

Analisi testo pag 17 “hard time”

The extract represent the Dickens’s way to ridicule a character: Mr Bounderby and his wife Mrs Grundy. The descriptions are not realistic but there is an hyperbolic use of the language in order to give a caricature of the character. A person considered an example in the Victorian age is described as a poor and self- centred existence. The exaggerated pompous tone of arrogance of the self-made-man became ridiculous and it reduces the man position in a lower social class deleting  a Victorian age model.