Learning Path » 5B Interacting
1. Fiction is so important during the Victorian Age because it reflects social changes.
2. The ideal reading public of the Victorian Novel was middle class and, in particular, lower class.
3. Novels were published in installments because in this way they could become more popular.
4. The main contents of the Victorian Novels are differences of social class and the problem of relationship between one and the other.
5. Class was one of the most important topics of the novel because it provides a vision about social dynamic during Victorian Age.
6. The most important stylistic choices are: characterization, parody, grotesque, caricature, iperbolic use of the language.
7. Pathos is emotional that strikes the reader. It gives to the reader a sense of identification.
8. The grotesque is something to ridiculous and comic. It describes the underworld according to humorous strategies.
9. Philantropy was used to hide the condition of priviledge and so people look like good and generous person.
10. The Victorian novel played a fundamental role on legislate and opinion form
because the life of the middle class changed the public opinion about
society.
11. Characterization can not be forgot by an intelligent reader because it want to
enjoy people but also it wants to make people reflect.
12. Caricature describes the character to the extreme so people can not identify in some of them.
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14. Facts is a key word in Dickens production because they are the consequence of Utilitarianism.