paper-6 victorian literature

1. Submitted to Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
university
Smt. S. B. Gardy Department of English,
India, Gujarat[Bhavnagar]
Prepared by- Nupur Vyas
Email id-nupurvyas1995@gmail.com
Roll Number-39
Batch Year-2015-2017
Subject- paper-6 The Victorian Literature

2. My Topic Of Presentation
• Do you think that Dickens and George
Eliot study Victorian society?
• How they differ in their Perspective ?
• How they are looking at the same
thing but from different angles?

3. Charles dickens
• Dickens was marvelously keen observer with
an active imagination.
• Oliver Twist had the serious purpose of
mitigating the evils under which the poor
were suffering.
• His characters were really vivid but not terribly
nuanced.

4. Dickens perspective to study Victorian
society
Charles Dickens
• Dickens novels are dealt with
social problem novel,
particular emphasis on the
increasing gulf between rich,
poor, and employers and
working class.
• To highlight the human and
social cost of industrialism and
aggressive policies such as
Dicken’s Oliver twist ,the
depiction of the operation of
the new poor law and
workhouse system and of
urban
• Conditions giving rise to
delinquency and criminal
underclass.
• His efforts to stop child
labour and compulsory
education.
• He known for social realism,
comedy ,prose style and
social criticism.
• He was fierce critic of
poverty and social
stratification of Victorian
society

5. George Eliot
• Eliot emphasis on individualism, depiction of female
maturation as a process of self-realization rather
than self- correction.
• Her Novels are most Famously Middle-March, are
marked with their Realism and Psychological
insights
• Her aim of novel is to give moral instruction to the
readers.
• She depicts inner struggle of soul and development
of soul.

6. Continue…
• Her heroes and heroines differ radically from
those Dickens and Thackrey.
• The general character of all her novels may be
described in author’s own term Psychologic
realism.
• Her novels reflects the country life in England.

7. References
• Wikipedia
• William. J. long history book
• Edward albert history book
• Books. Google
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