Victorian Literatue Flashcards
1
Q
Kenmerken
A
- 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
A
- 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
A
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.
