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Exploration of the interaction between emotion and reason in producing moral actions.
Relationship between the psychological and psychological manifestation of feelings. -
Shift in public taste away from grandeur, authority, nobility, idealization. Sentiments of Neoclassicism. Reflection of the taste of the growing middle class. -
Literary works emphasize on the moral values, politics, religion and individual experience.
Concern about the social issues as the impact of industrialization and urbanization. -
Atmosphere of mystery and suspense.
Supernatural or inexplicable events. Sentimental narration. Setting in a castle, haunted house, abandoned or secret building. -
Emphasize on emotions and individualism.
Love of external nature in its wild and primitive state.
Expression and experimentation. -
The most influential romantic novel of our times.
Love and marriage are the central themes to Pride and prejudice.
In particular, the novel focuses on the different ways love may grow or disappear, and whether or not society has room for romantic love and marriage to go together. -
Characterized by the struggle of working people and the triumph of right over wrong.
Victorian novel tends to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work perseverance, love and luck win out in the end. -
A Christmas Carol is a critique of Victorian society because it is expressing to the reader how there is so much wrong with Victorian society; capitalism, lack of Christian values and greed.
It explains with precision why the Industrial Revolution turned off the sense of humanity of some people in Great Britain.
Charles Dickens recreate and portrait the attitude of rich people towards others with necessities. -
The novel developed in the 18th century and remained popular during the Victorian era, and it’s popularity was associated with a rising interest in psychology and the subconscious, especially repressed desires.
Author Emily Brontë incorporates supernatural elements, such as the possibility of ghosts into her novel and presents Wuthering Heights as an archetypal gothic building, full of dark and mysterious secrets. -
The novel is a human drama, with a focus on characters, and a socially-conscious drama, with a focus on broader social issues and themes.
Some of the key traits of realism you can see in this novel are a concern with social conditions and the lower class, a general lack of happy and idyllic human relationships, a focus on money, and a concern with the natural world.
In the return of the native, Hardy uses a lot of romantic elements to create a sense of contrast and irony with realist aspects. -
Realism attempts to represent familiar things as they are. It chooses to depict everyday and banal activities and experiences.
Representation of reality. Avoidance of speculative fiction and supernatural elements. -
The novel explores the power of art and the relationship between the artist and the subject. The portrait of Dorian Grey serves as a symbol of his inner corruption and moral decay, and the painting becomes more grotesque and distorted as Dorian’s character becomes more corrupted.
The atmosphere of the novel is one of terror, fear, uncertainty and an alluring sense of mystery. -
As the British empire began to decline, realism began to yield to the experimental no traditional movement known as modernism. Conrad’s fiction masterpiece are early examples of the genre.
Conrad examined the personal and spiritual journeys of his characters and anchored them in reality. Many of his stories are based on his personal experiences while at sea.
He explored themes such as chaos and exile and embraced modernist techniques such as multiple perspective. -
Sons and lovers, illustrate working-class women’s struggle for basic rights in the workforce and in society in Victorian Britain.
It focuses on the attitudes towards women subjugation, subordination, the mental illness, dilemma and moreover the suffrage and oppressions of women in the Victorian era. -
“The road from Colonus” sees life not from the intense and anxious perspective of early manhood but from the weariness and greediness of old age.
It shows Forster tackling the terrors of direct experience. The well-mannered but no less cutting conflicts that thread this story pit the visible world against the invisible, and convention against desire in a sharp analysis of cruelty’s resting place in duty and self-deception.