1. Discuss the use of the grotesque in Oliver Wants Some More (exemples, ingredient, function, effect):

In the test Oliver Wants Some More, Dickens uses the tecnique of the grotesque to creato a caricature of people. The figure of Oliver is in contrast with the figure of the cook. Thank to that the reader can understand that there are some people who are wore than them and think that they are not so bad as the characters; in the novel it creates an alibi. Even irony is use to underline the condradictions of the Victorian age and to indirectly denounce the injustice of the age and society. An example of the grotesque is when the spoon is described as bigger than the bowl, to indicate how insignificant the portion of Oliver was.

2. Discuss how stylistic choices and narrative strategies contribute to the criticism of education in The Definition Of A Horse:

Dickens in The Definition Of A Horse uses short and marked sentences to courey the idea of the teacher's personality. Victorian fiction does not allow emotions and sensibility and the main ideology is that time is money and you have to do everything to get the biggest profit. With the sentence "Girl number twenty" the novelist wants to underline one more the difference between opposite classes, the whole population and the middle class. Dickens uses pathos and the grotesque to crate an alibi but also to denounces the behaviour of powerful people to wards the less lucky.

3. Discuss the main structural features of Victorian fiction (narrative technique, themes, publishing and readship):

The themes of the Victorian fiction are generally centred on the relationship between an individual and a group of society even if the most characteristic theme is class. Between 1830 and 1855 social history became a vital part of the novel. Victorian readership was predominantly middle class and lower middle class. The narrative technique was frequently pathos and the grotesque with the realism and the irony. The Victorian novel is generally set in the city and the expression of industrial civilization.