English faculty II

Actuality of the investigation. Lewis carol was the most famous writer of all time. His works also a strong link between children and literature. Many aspects of Lewis Carroll’s life influenced his writing. Some of these aspects include his mathematical background and logical disposition, interest in and photography of little girls, abnormal eating habits, dual personality, sleeping difficulties, Victorian lifestyle, and neglected childhood. These characteristics of his life are reflected in his literature, including in his most well-known novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
Aim of the investigation is to expend reader's knowledge about Lewis carol and his notable work “Alice’s adventure in Wonderland”
The following objectives have been settled related Lewis Carol’s prose:
- to analyze theoretical material on the problem of investigation;
- to give general information about Lewis Carol’s life;
- to give general information about Lewis Carol’s place on English Literature;
- to get acquainted with Lewis Carol’s famous work
The object of the investigation is Lewis Carol’s.
The subject of the investigation is the famous literary works done by Lewis Carol
The scientific novelty of the investigation includes learning about the life and literary works of Lewis Carol
Structure of the course paper consists of four major parts - Introduction, Main part which consists of two chapters, Conclusion, and List of used literature.
CHAPTER I : A BRIEF INFORMATION ABOUT MODERN ENGLISH NOVELISM
1.1. The beginning of modern English novelism
The modern age is essentially the age of the novel. This is the most important and popular medium in modern times. English fiction (novel) is the only literary form which can compete for popularity with the film and the radio.
The publication of new English fiction (novel) by a novelist is received now with the same enthusiastic response as a new comedy by Dryden or Congreve was received in the Restoration Period and a new volume of poems by Tennyson during the Victorian Period.
Poetry, which had for many centuries, held the supreme place in the realm of literature had lost that position. The main reason for this change is that the novel is the only literary form which meets the needs of the modern world.
Characteristics
Realism
The novel of the Modern Age is realistic in nature. The realistic writer is one who thinks that truth to observed facts (facts about the outer world or his own feelings) is the great thing, while an idealist writer wants to create a pleasant picture.
The modern novelist is realistic in this sense. He tries to include within the limits of the novel almost everything and not a merely one-sided view of it. Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Eliot’s Middlemarch had proven that the novel can be made as flexible as life itself.
The modern novelists have continued this experiment still further, and are trying to make the novel more elegant and flexible.
Love for Romance
Against the tendency of realism and materialism perceptible in the early years of the 20th century with an accent on the discussion of social problems, stands the tendency for the criticism of material values, and a love for sex, romance, and adventure.
The note of disillusionment against the realism in fiction and too much concentration on material values of life was sounded by psychological novelists of the age like Virginia Woolf and a few critics of modern life like Samuel Butler, Huxley, Forester etc.
Samuel Butler satirized the realism of modern civilization and its insistence on machinery in Erewhon. Virginia Woolf, too, severely criticised the Edwardian Realism.
Frank in Sexual Matters
During the Georgian Period, a new tendency began to be perceptible in English fiction, and it centred around the glorification of sex and primal human emotions and passions. The Victorian Novelists showed no interest in the naked dance of sex and their novels they preferred married love over illegal flirtation.
The result is that whereas the earlier English novel generally dealt with the theme of the relation between gentility and morality, the modern novel deals with the relationship between loneliness and love.
Stream of Consciousness Technique
According to Diaches, Stream of Consciousness is a means of escape from the tyranny of the time dimension.
The stream of consciousness technique is a revolutionary modern technique which had tried to transform the art of narrative almost in every respect. The first user of this technique was the French novelist Edouard Dujardin.
The phrase “Stream of Consciousness” however was coined by the psychologist William James who wrote Principles of Psychology.
By calling consciousness a stream, James meant that human consciousness in something fluid; it is an unbroken current of feelings, impressions, fantasies, half-formed thoughts and awareness in general. Consciousness is continuity like time and is independent of time.
At any given instance of time, an individual’s consciousness may not be entirely concerned with the present. He may be living through an experience of the past or fantasies about the future.
Advantages
The Stream of Consciousness Technique bestows at least three major advantages on the novelists. They are:
Freedom from the constraints of time
Complete objectivity
Greater inwardness and profundity
Disadvantages
There are mainly two disadvantages;
Disregard for material/outer reality.
Lack of form and pattern and even meaning
Novel of Ideas
In the first decades of the 20th century, English fiction was mainly confined to the discussion of problems, confronting us in social life. The Edwardian novel was essentially a novel of ideas including in its scope, a free discussion of all kinds of ideas; scientific, social, political industrial and so forth.
The Edwardian novelists considered it to be a sin to escape into a world of romance and psychology when the gaping wounds of social life were pleading for reform and healthy treatment.
The 20th century marks the beginning of the modern period in English literature, which continued until 1965. The old ways of interacting with the world were abruptly broken during this time. Experimentation and individualism were strongly discouraged throughout all previous eras; however, with the advent of the modern era, both of these traits evolved into virtues. At the beginning of modernism, there were numerous cultural shocks. The first and second World Wars were the greatest blow of our time. These wars began in 1914 and lasted until 1919, while the other lasted from 1939 to 1945. Everyone experienced trauma as a result of the wars. Every citizen's face displayed the horror of World War I. There was a widespread sense of uncertainty, and no one knew where the world was going.
A few things to keep in mind about the modern era: the development of social and natural sciences in the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. gains in tangible wealth as a result of rapid growth and industrialization. The gap between clergy and aristocrats widened even more.
English writing of the advanced age began with the inception of the twentieth hundred years. Modern literature was notable for its opposition to the prevalent attitude toward life depicted in Victorian literature.
The Victorian era began to be viewed as hypocritical because of its superficial and mean ideals. Modern authors exhibited a rebellious attitude as a result of Victorian hypocrisy. In the modern era, what was regarded as beautiful and honorable in the Victorian era was regarded as ugly. People from the Victorian era lacked the ability to ask questions.
During the Victorian era, people accepted the church's rules and listened to the voice of those in power. People began to comply with the law without question. However, the subsequent generation possessed critical thinking and questioned the supreme authority's decisions. Authors of current age invalidated the thoughts and convictions of past time.
The simple belief of the conquerors was replaced by the modern man's desire to investigate. Both the ancient superstitions of religion and the scientific superstitions were criticized by George Bernard Shaw. He was the first person to develop the modern habit of asking questions. Shaw openly questioned religion authority as well as the government's voice. He prompted the populace to ask questions about religion and morality.