VICTORIAN NOVEL

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VICTORIAN NOVEL
Crosato Gianpaolo cl VB
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THEME 1

• Differences and clash between lower and middle
  class, between rich and poor
• He was a rich man banker, merchant,
  manufacturer, and what not. () I hadnt shoe to
  my foot. As a stocking. I didnt know such a
  thing by name. I passed the day in a ditch, and
  the night in a pigsty. Thats the way I spend my
  tenth birthday. (Hard Times)
• Differences between social classes
• The only pupil who evinced the slightest tendency
  towards locomotion or playfulness was Master
  Squeers, and as his chief amusement was to tread
  upon the other boys toes in his new boots.
  (Nicholas Nickleby)
• Fear of people to fall in a lower class
• He could not but observe how silent and sad the
  boys all seemed to be. () Thats the way we do
  it, Nickleby, he said, after a pause. Nicholas
  shrugged his shoulders. (Nicholas Nickleby)

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THEME 2

• Children and their exploitation
• The master aimed a blow at Olivers head with the
  leddle. (Oliver Twist)
• Third boy, whats horse?. A beast, sir,
  replied the boy. () As youre perfect in that,
  resumed Squeers, turning to the boy, go and look
  after my horse, and rub him down well, or Ill
  rub you down. The rest of the class go and draw
  water up. (Nicholas Nickleby)
• Education
• Obedient to this summons there ranged themselves
  in front of the schoolmasters desk, half-a-dozen
  scarecrows (Nicholas Nickleby)
• Woman and their exploitation
• The middle class family life
• In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge,
  standing on the heart-rug, warming himself before
  the fire (Hard Times)

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SETTING

• In general the novels are setting in writers
  contemporary cities.
• In particular the novels are set in
• Factories
• It was a town of machinery and tall chimney.
  (Hard Times)
• Schools
• Having further disposed of a slice of bread and
  butter, allotted to him in virtue of his office,
  he sat himself down, to wait for school-time.
  (Nicholas Nickleby)
• Workhouses
• Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the
  tortures od flow starvation for three month.
  (Oliver Twist)

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NARRATIVE TECNIQUE 1

• In reality
• Use of repetition
• At the same hours, with the same sound upon the
  same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom
  every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow.
  (Hard Times)
• Pathos (exaggeration of sentiments and emotions)
• The children sat crouching and shivering together
  (Nicholas Nickleby)
• Use of direct speech
• hush! cried Miss Sedley. (Vanity Fair)

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NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE 2

• In humor
• Grotesque (exaggeration, creation of caricatures
  that produces laughs and melodrama effects )
• He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small
  rebel for some seconds, and then clung for
  support to the copper. (Oliver Twist)
• Irony
• Obedient to this summons there ranged themselves
  in front of the schoolmasters desk, half-a-dozen
  scarecrows (Nicholas Nickleby)
• Parody
• The board were setting in solemn conclave (Oliver
  Twist)
• Hyperbole
• Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the
  tortures od flow starvation for three month.
  (Oliver Twist)

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NARRATOR

• Third person omniscient intrusive narrator

PURPOSE

• To criticize industrial and Victorian way of life

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CHARACTERS

• Classes
• Children
• Oliver Twist
• Woman
• Rebecca Sharp, Amela Sedley
• Unsuited man
• Nicholas Nicjleby, Thomas Gradgrind

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Anti-Victorian novel(Jude The Obscure)

• Themes
• Middle class family life
• Setting
• City
• Narrator technique
• Pathos
• Narrator
• Third person omniscient narrator
• Characters
• Middle class family
• Purpose
• To criticize values and institution of every day
  life