London

1. The city of London
Pedro Victor Sousa Aires De Moraes
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2. By William Blake
(1757-1827)
From the poem "London" published in 1794, by
the British writer William Blake, Poetry has a dark
and morbid tone and reflects Blake's unhappiness
and dissatisfaction with his life in London. Blake
describes London's annoying socioeconomic and
moral decay and the overwhelming sense of
despair of the residents. "London" offers little
inspiration for those who have to endure the
overwhelming and suffocating environment.

3. By Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
The most important setting of the novel “Oliver Twist”
by Charles Dickens, is London, which is depicted at
three different social levels. First, the parochial world
of the workhouse is revealed. The inhabitants of this
world, belonging to the lower-middle-class strata of
society, are Second, the criminal world is described,
with pickpockets and murderers. Poverty drives them
to crime and the weapon they use to of the alculating
and insensible to the achieve their end is violence.
They live in dirty, squalid slums in Finally, the world of
the Victorian middle class is presented. In this world,
there live respectable people who show a regard for
moral a permanent state of fear and generally die a
miserable death. välues and believe in the principle of
human dignity.

4. By R. L. Stevenson
(1850-1894)
London for the writer had a double nature:
-The respectable West end;
-The appalling East end slums.
This thought is present in his novel “The Strange Case
of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde.

5. By Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
Wilde's thought of London can be seen through his
work "The picture of Dorian Gray" where the moral of
the novel is that any excess must be punished and
reality cannot be escaped. When Dorian destroys the
image, he cannot avoid punishment for all his sins,
that is, death. The horrible and corrupt image can be
seen as a symbol of the immorality and bad conscience
of the Victorian middle class, while Dorian and his
pure and innocent appearance are symbols of
bourgeois hypocrisy Finally

6. By George Orwell
(1903-1950)
He could not stand the lack of privacy, the humiliating
punishments, the pressure to conform to the
values of the tradition of the English public school
(such as the development of the "character), a pinch of
competition and a strict adherence to the prevailing
discipline and moral code.