Victorian Literatue Flashcards
1
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Kenmerken
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- novels tended to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, love and luck win out in the end
- realism about the poor
- happy endings
2
Q
Charles Dickens
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- wrote a lot about the struggles of the poor
- used humour: slapstick
- his characters were really vivid (its obvious who is good and bad)
3
Q
A christmas carol
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Ebenezer scrooge is a very mean old man, who doesn’t show any kindness to other people at any time. One christmas he is visited by a number of ghosts, who show him the past, the present and the future in turn.