The difference in the form of writing impacted the presentation of these literary works and how they were received. Literature from the Victorian period came in all forms and styles, however, for the purpose of this essay, the forms discussed will be limited to Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s epic narrative poem, ‘Aurora Leigh’. Both Stevenson and Browning were able to portray a number of relevant Victorian social attitudes through their chosen literary form such as the duality of humans, the repressive behaviour of Victorian society, concerns regarding scientific advancement and the impact on the old way of life as well as the role and inequality of woman in Victorian times through use of theme, narration style and characterisation. The Victorian era is commonly reflected upon as patriarchal, repressive and pious though, whilst those elements were certainly present in society, to reduce the period to such a narrow stereotype is to overlook much of what was occurring during that time. Victorians were ‘much more diverse and lively’ (Murfin & Ray 496) than they are credited with and the period was rich with change and a challenging of long held
ENGLISH ESSAY Both For The Fire and Summer Rain written by John Foulcher, heavily rely on imagery such as personification, metaphors and similes as well as sound devices like onomatopoeia, assonance and alliteration to explore the relationship between the human and natural world in a very negative light. While two poems have negative imagery to their message, they don’t share a negative message. For The Fire focuses on how nature’s world survives and the natural order must be accepted. On the other hand Summer Rain reveals a far more negative and critical tone. Ironically the title should show joy and happiness; however this idea is contrasted with the strong mood of sadness and despair as unlike For The Fire, this poem focuses on the restructure
The literary consequence in Oliver Twist is a sphere of coherent, but cryptic, delinquency, whose structures are open not only to investigation but also to interpretation. In fact, ever since the first serial installments of the novel in 1837, an interpretive structuring of criminality has imposed itself upon the mysteries of early Victorian vice which Dickens only vaguely described. In the preface of 1841 Dickens met the moral objections of readers with a defiant statement of his characters' precise criminal roles: "It is, it seems, a very coarse and shocking circumstance, that some of the characters in these pages are chosen from the most criminal and degraded of London's population; that Sikes is a thief, and Fagin a receiver of stolen goods; that the boys are pickpockets, and the girl is a prostitute." This last identification--"the girl is a prostitute"--was hardly news, but it was nevertheless something new, for Dickens, as he went on to explain in the preface of 1841, had avoided naming Nancy's profession in the novel itself, and had indeed left intentionally imprecise the general representation of criminality: No less consulting my own taste, than the manners of the age, I endeavoured, while
Read the two prose extracts (Item A and Item B) carefully, bearing in mind that they were written at different times by different writers and are open to different interpretations Write a comparison of these two extracts Both Angela Carter’s ‘The Magic Toyshop’ and Laurence Sterne’s ‘A Sentimental Journey’ contain aspects of desire. However, they contrast greatly in the sense that in ‘The Magic Toyshop the love is unrequited whereas it is requited in ‘A Sentimental Journey’.’The Magic Toyshop’ is in third person narrative, but it privileges us with seeing events through the perspective of Melanie. The tone throughout is quite gothic, with images such as the ‘phantom chess board’ and ‘subaqueous eyes’. Contrastingly, ‘A Sentimental Journey’ is in first person narrative, so we see events in the view of the male protagonist, Yorick. The tone throughout the extract is one of intimacy and passion.
We can better accept their fantastic achievement if it is treated as fiction, being presented from the real-world context of the narrator. The newspaper editor is the dominance of the whole story. He is more realistic, who has an ordinary and respectful job, than the two loafers. It is from his perspective that a bizarre adventures is told, which facilitates profound effects on readers. When reading novels, readers likely to identify a “subject character”, which according to Robert Higbie’s definition would “enable our desire to enter into the fictional world and act on it” (10) The newsman could be regard as a subject character who come across two “lunatic man” and is told a series of fantastic adventures.
The effect of exaggeration style in Charles Dickens’s “David at Salem House” Exaggeration is a representation of something in an excessive manner and has been a familiar style of famous writers such as Flannery O’Connor, Mark Twain, Paul Bunyan…to show writer’s attitudes toward characters. In “David at Salem House”, , which allows readers clearly see how lonely David Copperfield is in Salem house and his strong endurance with the mistreat of school system. The first aspect Dickens uses to describe his characters is the use of formal vocabulary or use of big words for small things. Dickens chooses words carefully to attract reader’s attention and build characters he intends to show. The evidences appear in each paragraph :The Master and David Copperfield were “surveyed” by a stout man, Copperfield “supposed” the boy were out, the placard was “neatly constructed”, the cruel man “aggravated” his sufferings.
In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, imagery is used in many forms to convey the manifesting corruption and festering disease foreshadowing the impending doom of Denmark. His use of imagery through metaphors gives depth to characters, atmosphere to scenes and sometimes even a voice to characters that do not have the courage to speak their truth. Shakespeare taints his words with disease and rank decay throughout the play. These images are accomplished skillfully through the use of the nature metaphors, particularly that of rank gardens and weeds, when describing the state of Denmark and its cast of players under the rule of King Claudius. The gardens in Hamlet are not necessarily places where one would go to have a picnic or observe nature.
Patrick Pham Mr. Bird AP Language and Composition 1 October 2014 Charles Dickens Use of Diction Many writers express how they feel about a particular subject by creating a certain tone with different types of literary devices or techniques. Some of these types of writing methods they use include a specific kind of diction or connotation. In Hard Times, Charles Dickens uses techniques of diction to create a tone of monotonous, describing how he views a classroom, or the world, to be demanding and black and white during his time. One type of word choice Dickens uses are adjectives that show a plebeian or monotonous connotation to show his belief on how the world is. Dickens calls the school room “plain, bare, monotonous” and the voice of the speaker as “inflexible, dry, and dictatorial” (Dickens 6, 12).
The Canterbury Tales Writing Assignment Satire is a literary tool that Chaucer used freely in writing the Canterbury Tales. Dictionary.com defines satire as "the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc." The three characters that I chose from the Prologue are all satirized to some degree. The satirization of the Knight, the Monk and the Doctor can be either very subtle or very obvious. The Knight is a character that is more subtly satirized than either the Monk or the Doctor.
Running head: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE VERSES LITERAL LANGUAGE 1 Figurative Language Verses Literal Language William B. Smith Dr. Alan Rodgers Lithonia Campus PHI 210 October 27, 2012 Strayer University Running page: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE VERSES LITERAL LANGUAGE 2 Figurative Language Verses Literal Language Figurative language is a type of language that uses more interesting words of expressions to convey a message different from the literal interpretation. They are not to be taken seriously but instead are meant to be imaginative, vivid, and evocative. Author’s frequently use figurative language to make their words jump out at the reader when they see it. Case in point, “it’s raining really hard out there” is literal; and “it’s raining cats and dogs” is figurative, unless we believe animals can fall from the sky. So in other words, figurative language is used to add spice to text/words that would in other circumstances be uninteresting.