Victorian Novel

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Victorian Novel
Victorian novel or Victorian literature is the
literature produced during the reign of Queen
Victoria (1837-1901) (the Victorian era). It
forms a link and transition between the writers
of the romantic period and the very different
literature of the 20th century. The 19th century
is often regarded as a high point in British
literature as well as in other countries such as
France, the United States and Russia. Books, and
novels in particular, became ubiquitous, and the
"Victorian novelist" created legacy works with
continuing appeal.
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Themes

Industrialization
Education
Class
Children
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Education

• Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens we go upon
  the pratical mode of teaching, Nickleby-theregular
  education system. C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active,
  to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r,
  winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out
  of book, he goes and does it. Its just the same
  principle as the use of yhe globes.

This novel exposes the appaling educational
institutions of the Victorian period . Thought
Nicholas s eyes , the novels central hero,the
reader sees a pitful group of boys bearing yhe
marks of suffering and the comic ill-treatment
meted out of them by the Squeers family.
During the Victorian age , the school was
required to teach to the student how to think (
there wasnt freedom of thought). Must conform
to the mass.
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Industrialization

• Hard Times, Charles Dickens it was a town of
  red brick , or of brick that would have been red
  if the smoke and asches had allowed it , a
  river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye ,
  people equally like one another, every day the
  same as yesterday and tomorrow, the jall might
  have been the infirmary.

This novel is set in Coketown, an imaginary town
which recalls the actual enviroment of Nothern
mill towns and becomes a symbolic representation
of the economy and spiritual poverty that
oppresses its working class. Industrialization is
seen as a threat to making, as it tends to turn
human beings into machines by suffocating their
emotions and imagination.
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Children

• Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens Oliver Twist and
  his companions suffered the tortues of slow
  starvation for three months , he was afraid he
  might some night happen to eat the boy who slpet
  next him , the master aimed a blow at Olivers
  head withe the laddle , that boy will be
  hung.

This novel describes the ill- treatmnet of
children in the workhouses of the Victorian Age
have never lost their endouring emotional
appeal.the workhouse where Oliver and his
companions live is based on charitable
insttutions of the time which treated the poor as
if poverty was a crime.
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Class
In the Victorian Age there are two different
class the worker and the capitalist.
The problem of relationship between one class and
another, the desire to rise and fear of falling
the social ladder and the problems that arose
from exploitation of labour and corruption or
inadequacy in the social services born by tree
important thoughts

• Darwinismonly the strongest suvive
• Puritanism if you progress to the social ladder
  , the bless of God is recognazed.
• Utilirarism time is money and must be invested
  well

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Features of Vivtorian Novel

• The narrator is in third person he is omniscent
  and intrusive ( Let us strike if the reader
  shoul prefer it ). So the reader is adressed
  have to follow the narrators thoughts.
• The predominat settings are the city the
  fenomenon of urbanization ( peoples move from the
  country to the town)
• Linguistic devices he juxtaposes or mixes sad
  and comic details he uses hiperbole ,
  exagerations ( per diem) he ridicules what
  intendes to criticise by repeating words /
  phrases/ sencente structure (fact, fatc, fact
  man perfectly devoidof sentiment) , he uses the
  languange of sense impresions ( red brick , a
  river that ran purple with ill- smelling dye) ,
  metaphorical use nof the language ( like the head
  of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness)
  .

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• Characterization the use of pathos and
  grotesque. The narrator describes the
  protagonists throught their action and what they
  say using the irony and the exageration to
  entertaiment the reader but also to do reflect
  him about the social conditions of that period.
  PATHOS was analogous to huminatirianism and
  philantropy GROTESQUE describes the humorous
  strategies of discourse as the world of sin ,
  vice and damnetion, the place of the sinful and
  therefore damned.
• the fuction of Victorian Novel is to educate ,
  to amuse and to create opinions to the readers.