1)Why is fiction so important during the Victorian Age? List at least four reasons.

Fiction is very important during the Victorian Age because it reflects the social changes of the epoque and so could give the tools to the reader to understand the society using one of its feature, the represention of the reality. It is also important because it has an impact on the ones who could vote to change the world.

2)Who was the ideal reading public of the Victorian Novel?

The ideal reading public of the Victorian Novel was lower middle class.

3)Why were novels published in installments?

 Novels were published in installments in order to create curiosity in the reader, involving him in the story.

4)What are the main contents of the Victorian Novel?

The main contents of the Victorian Novel are contrasts between the different classes and the corruption or inadequacy in the social services.

5)With references to the Industrial Revolution process explain why class was one of the most important topics in the novel.

According to the Industrial Revolution process, Capitalism used to create more and more wealth to the businessmen and to impoverish the lowest social classes. The Victorian Novel tells about this process, the fight between low social classes against rich and evil businessmen for the work rights, for the dignity and for a better life.

6)Illustrate the most important stylistic choices in Dickens fiction.

In Dickens fiction the most important stylistic choices are the third intrusive omniscient person and the use of parody according to realism created by the general exaggeration and the hyperbolic language.

7)Explain what the pathos is and how it works.

The pathos is a feature of the Victorian Novel and it creates in the reader a specific sense when defenseless victims are persecuted.

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

The grotesque is the opposite feature of the pathos, and it condemns poor people as the hell of the Victorian society, being part of a world of sin and vice. It is also an alibi for the middle social classes to justify their actions.

9)Explain how philantrophy worked as an alibi for people.

 Philantrophy worked as an alibi for the upper middle classes because by giving poor people money and by creating social institutions according to lower social classes needs, they thought to have cleaned their bad consciences.

10)Explain why the Victorian Novel played a fundamental role on legislators and opinion-formers.

 Victorian novel was a widely-read novel which was giving the reader the tools to understand what was going on in the society. The novel represented the reality of the social classes contrats through stories, according to its many features, which had an impact on legislators and opinion-formes.

11)Characterization in Victorian fiction is one of the features intelligent reader cannot forget. Discuss.

In the Victorian fiction, characterization is a way to describe the characters, which are very peculiar and stricking, by mixing many features of the Victorian Novel as the pathos, the grotesque, the parody and the caricature.

12)Explain the role of caricature.

 Caricature has the role to make the reader unable to recognize himself through the novel.

13)Say why Victorian novel mainly reproduces the contradiction of the middle class.

 The Victorian Novel mainly reproduces the contradiction of the middle class because they pretend to be honest and kind with poor people by helping them, but that is just an alibi as they created a huge gap of the wealth according to the capitalism mentality.

14)Try to say what in contemporary culture is very much similar to the Victorian production in the world of the media.

 In the world of media the wait used in tv series between one episode and another is very similar to the use of installments in the Victorian Novel.

15)Facts is a key word in Dickens production. Discuss.