English Literature: Key Concepts & Themes by Dickens, Hardy, Stevenson, & Kipling, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica English Literature: Key Concepts & Themes by Dickens, Hardy, Stevenson, & Kipling e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Riassunti Inglese – Concetti chiave autori di quinta Charles Dickens Characters: lower class, poor children Aim: didactic, knoweledge of poorer neighbours Style: effective language,powerful descriptions Oliver Twist: 3 social levels: -workhouse (lower class), -criminal world (pickpokets), -Victorian middle class (respectable people with moral values) Hard Times: Set in Cocketown, a fictional city, it stands for a real industrial town A brick jungle, hellish land, everything is covered with soot from the coal burnr in factories. 3 sections: Sowing, Reaping, Garnering (instability) Characters: Utilitarianism of Mr Gradgrind and Mr Bounderby, self- intrest of exploiting children. Aim: illustrate the dangers of the teaching method of Object Lesson Humans are actuallly dehumanised Thomas Hardy Deterministic view: considerations of life, death, man, universe. No consolation or providence. He abandoned his faith in God. Indifferent nature and hostyle fate. After Darwein’s discoveries he denied the existance of God. Man has no power in front of nature. Themes: difficulty of being alive, nature and its cycle. Conventional, hypocritical aspects of Victorian society Style: rigorous form, omniscent narrator. Rich in symbolism and language of sense impressions. Robert Louis Stevenson Dr Jekill and Mr Hyde Dr Jekill swalllow a drug that make him splitted in two parts Perpetual struggle between these two beings. Duality of every person, bu also of the society: upper/ lower class and in particular in the aristocratic class itself, that hides an obscure part of the personal lifes of people. Also Jekill house with two sides and the name Hyde are metaphores Sources: origin in a dream. Duality is a conception of Calvinism. Interpretations: Hyde seems the primitive man: influence of Darwin Style: different points of view. Four narrators: Utterson, Dr Lanyon, Enfield, Mr Jekill himself.