Victorian Literatue Flashcards

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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
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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)
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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.

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