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The Victorian Novel

The Victorian novel Dickens Wilde

Setting City City

Characters Stereotypes Deep analysis of the interiority

Retribution The good characters get Dorian is punished in the end


rewarded and the bad punished

Society critique Dickens stated what was right Wilde criticized the excessive
and what was wrong. Through his morality of his society by living in
critics he tried to push his readers a revolutionary way. He thought
to act (his critics were hidden morality was bad and he was
thanks to exaggeration)
open about his opinions.

Morality is a good thing, the bad Morality is hypocrisy

thing is hypocrisy The only important thing is


pleasure and the cult of beauty.

Omniscient narrator The narrator judges the event and The narrator stands aside and
the characters’ behavior doesn’t give moral judgements

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