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Alfio Calà
Victorian age was characterised by a great progress and a great industrialization.
Victorian Age
important
movements
Evangelicalism was a religious movement that believed in: litteral truth of Bible, morality, dedication to humanitarian causes and social reforms.
Bentham's Utilitarianism: according to Epicuro the Utilitarianism said that an action is morally right if it leads to happiness also the Utilitarianism was suittable for the middle class and said that any problem could be overcame by the reason.
Empiricism: Mill go against the Utilitarianism, he said that happiness is a state of mind, legislation should try to help man to develop their natural talant, emancipation of woman.
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oscar wilde
O. Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He became a disciple of Walter Pater, the theorist of Aestheticism.
He was a fashionable dandy
He was imprisoned for homosexual acts.
He died in Paris in 1900.
The Picture of Dorian Gray appeared for the first time in a magazine in 1890. One year later, he was revised and extended.
When it was published he was considered immoral by the Victorian public.
Picture of
Dorian gray
The picture represents the symbol of the immorality and bad conscience of the Victorian middle class.
When it is restored to its original beauty, it shows Wilde’s theories about art: art is eternal.
Main aspects
Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).
Plays Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of no Importance (1893), The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Salomé (1893).
Poetry Poems (1891), The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Main works
Brontë Sister
The Brontë sisters, Charlotte (1816-55), Emily (1818-48) and Anne (1820-49) spent f their life in isolation in the Yorkshire.
They did not receive a formal education at school, but they were self educated.
Like many female writers of the period, they wrote using pen names.
Jane Eyre
- Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre is a perfect example of Bildungsroman, a novel of growing up,
- the theme of childhood and education plays an important role in the novel
- Charlotte criticises the strict Victorian social class system and gender relationships.
- Marriage is presented as a relationship between equals, not as a social compromise.
dickens
Charles Dickens criticises the Victorian age.
He talks about the problems of his period regarding the child abuse
He says that the intelligence could have avoided many problems.
He is not a socialist and does not have a political attitude but his behaviour is due to humanitarian reasons.
It can be considered a denunciation novel because Dickens shows some of the negative effects of industrial society .
hard times
Setting and characters
It is set in an imaginary town called Coketown.
The main characters are:
Mr Gradgrind is an educator who believes in facts and statistics. He has two children Louisa and Tom.
Another character is Joseph Bounderby, a rich barker of the city.
Setting and characters
Main themes
Themes
- a critic of materialism and Utilitarianism;
- a denunciation of the new industrial age;
- the problem between the rich and the poor and to criticise the materialism
Alfred Tennyson was a British poet during the Queen Victoria's reign.
He wrote many important dramatic monologues, two of his most important monologues was Ulysses and The Lady of Shalott.
His style was the need for balance and regularity and was also the master of onomatopoeia and kennings.
Tennyson
Ulysses is an old king
He regrets the adventures of the past.
There is a contrast between his adventures and his life with his wife in
Ithaca.
Ulysses represents the romantic man while his son represent the Victorian Age,
so this demonstrates that there is a change between the movements
Uylsses
The Lady of Shalott
The poem is made of 20 stanzas
A young woman imprisoned for a curse in a tower near Camelot, while she escapes by boat she sees Camelot and she dies.
Liberal Party: included Whigs and Radicals and it was led by William Gladstone.
Conservative Party: included Tories and the leadership was Benjamin Disraeli.
politic
system
William
gladstone
Labourers' Dwellings Act:
allowed local public authorities
to clear the slums and provided haousing for the poor.
Public Health Act: provided sanitation.
Factory act: limited the working hours per week
Education Act: introdused "board schools" in the poorer areas of the towns.
Ballot Act: introduced the secret ballot at elections.
The Third Reform Act: extended voting to all the male householders.
Benjamin
disraeli
Mrs Warren's Profession
SHAW
-was born in poverty
-become a financially secure lady thanks to her work in prostitution
-she does not have much contact with her daughter because of her profession. For this reason she was also sapareted
from her family and Victorian society
-the public was shocked by its content
differences
Differences between Mrs Warren and Filumena Marturano
Mrs Warren: -wants to be indipendent from men
-equality
-goes against society's prejudice
Filumena: -by Eduardo De Filippo
-wants to get married to have
a family and protect her children
-she loves Don Mimì
figure of womAn
Women did not have the right to vote to sue or to own a property
Feminist ideas spread among the educated middle classes.
The prevailing ideology of the time portrayed women as «angels of the home».
he woman were expected to be:
The perfect mother and Wife vs «the fallen woman »
poetry
Poetry became more concerned with social realities
The poets were seen as prophets and philosophers
There was also laureate poets who were given special positions by the king or the queen who were asked to write and read poems.
In dramatic monologue the speaking character is different from the poet himself and is caught in a crucial moment of crisis
Colonialism
The Twentieth Century is considered an age of great change in relation to literary contents and style.
Before it, there was a transitional period with writers like Joseph Conrad whose main work was Heart of Darkness and Kipling whose main work was White Man's Burden.
Heart of Darkness (1902)
Main themes
It was first published in serial form in 1899. Then, as a complete work in 1902.
It is often called a "novella" because of its shortness, although most critics considered it a novel because of its themes and complex form.
The main themes are:
- colonialism, considered as a source of exploitation and darkness
- discovery, not only in seeing new lands but a discovery of the self.
Heart of darkness - narrative technique
The frame is the narrative technique used by the writer. It is provided by the anonymous narrator on board the Nellie (a ship in the Thames estuary), who introduces Marlow who tells his story, creating a sort of chain.
It is divided into three chapters which show the different phase's in Marlow's relationship with Kurtz (an ivory trader who Marlow really admires).
Themes and Symbols
The word darkness which is part of the title itself, has different connotations:
- it can be referred to the jungle, as the main character Marlow goes through it in order to find Kurtz.
- and it can be also seen as the darkness at heart of man, considering it a consequence of man's desire for wealth.
There are several images of death, for example the description of Kurtz' hut which is decorated with skulls of dead man.
white man's burden
Main Themes
the poem shows:
- exploitation of labour of poor nations by rich nations of the world
-the white man has to educate, civilize the people of the colonies to the people of mother-land
-the natives are not asked if they want to be civilized
-white man thinks they are not aware of their rights
kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia
-the protagonist is Karim
-Pakistan father and English mother
-live in suburbs of London
-he moves to central London and works as an actor
-the English society tends to move away people who were not originally from England
monica ali
Brick lane
-Nazneen had a forced marriage with Chanu
-they move to London, specifically Brick Lane
-Nazneen meets many Bangladeshi immigrants
-he does not allow her to study English or travel alone,
due to his religious beliefs
-she has a son, Raqib. Chanu is worried that
his son will be corrupt by western influences,
like drugs and alcohol
-Chanu decides that he want to move the family
back to Bangladesh. After this decision Raqib dies
azar nafisi
Reading Lolita in Teheran
-The book consists of a memoir of the author's experiences about returning to Iran during the Khomeyini regime
-she quit teaching at the university
-organized secret lessons
-organized secret lessons where they read
prohibited books
ben okri
Life:
-Minna 1959
-London
-Study law in Nigeria
-Nigeria civil war
-Study comparative literature at Essex University in England
The Lament of the Immages
- by Alfredo Jaar
-installation consisting of
two aluminiun tables displayed
in a dark room
-Metaphors for the blindness
of a contemporary society
bombarded with the images
-Lost the ability to see and be moved by images