LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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“‘I say, Sam, ’ observed Humphrey when the old man was gone, ‘she and Clym Yeobright would make a very pretty pigeon-pair-hey? If they wouldn’t I’ll be dazed! Both of one mind about niceties for certain, and learned in print, and always thinking about high doctrine-there couldn’t be a better couple if they were made o’ purpose. Clym’s family is as good as hers. His father was a farmer, that’s true; but his mother was a sort of lady, as we know. Nothing would please me better than to see them two man and wife.”’
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“That five minutes of overhearing furnished Eustacia with visions enough to fill the whole blank afternoon. Such sudden alternations from mental vacuity do sometimes occur thus quietly. She could never have believed in the morning that her colourless inner world would before night become as animated as water under a microscope, and that without the arrival of a single visitor. The words of Sam and Humphrey on the harmony between the unknown and herself had on her mind the effect of the invading Bard’s prelude in the Castle of Indolence, at which myriads of imprisoned shapes arose where had previously appeared the stillness of a void.”
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“The subject of their discourse had been keenly interesting to her. A young and clever man was coming into that lonely heath from, of all contrasting places in the world, Paris. It was like a man coming from heaven. More singular still, the heathmen had instinctively coupled her and this man together in their minds as a pair born for each other.”
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All of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -The most popular novels of the Victorian age were realistic, thickly plotted, crowded with characters, and long. Describing contemporary life and entertainment for the middle class.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hardy himself classified his novels under three headings: “novels of character and environment” such as Tess of the D’Urbervilles, “romances and fantasies” such as The Trumpet Major and “novels of ingenuity” such as A Laodicean.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hardy’s poetry explores the themes of rural life and nature, love and loss, cosmic indifference, the ravages of time, the inevitability of death and the inhuman ironies of war. Hardy’s poetry is characterised by fatalistic pessimism, earthy realism, and abstract philosophising.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Hardy OM (2 June, 1840 – 11 January, 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth.