Thema's zijn meestal belangrijke lessen over het leven.
Bijvoorbeeld, in A Christmas Carol van Charles Dickens, kunnen de lezers concluderen dat liefde voor geld teveel kan leiden tot een ellendig, eenzaam bestaan, zoals Scrooge het tentoonspreidt.
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Verraad in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
De complicaties van vriendschap in Of Mice and Men
Schuld en isolatie in The Scarlet Letter
Vooroordelen en sociale ongelijkheid in To Kill A Mockingbird
Verleiding in The Odyssey
De gevaren van ambitie in Great Expectations
Of kijk hier voor meer mogelijke thema's:
https://www.scholieren.com/literaire-themas
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Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe / Moll Flanders / Roxana
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Samuel Richardson: Clarissa
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility / Northanger Abbey / Pride and Prejudice / Mansfield Park / Emma / Persuasion
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
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Thomas Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree / Far from the Madding Crowd / The Return of the Native / Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest / The Picture of Dorian Gray
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist / A Tale of Two Cities / Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop / Martin Chuzzlewit / David Copperfield / The Pickwick Papers / Dombey and Son / Bleak House / Hard Times / A Christmas Carol / Little Dorrit / Great Expectations / Our Mutual Friend
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George Eliot: Silas Marner / Adam Bede / Mill on the Floss / Middlemarch
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / The Return of Sherlock Holmes / The Hound of the Baskervilles
Herbert George Wells: The Time Machine / The Invisible Man / War of the Worlds
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
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English Renaissance
1485-1558 Tudor England
1558-1603 Elizabethan England
1603-1625 James I
1629- 1649 Charles I
1641 - 1649 English Civil War : Charles I vs Parliament (Oliver Cromwell)
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The Commonwealth
Oliver Cromwell
Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (1645 – 1658)
Puritan Revolution
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What happened to Charles I?
A
He was beheaded
B
He was sent into exile
C
He was murdered
D
he was hanged
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Restoration period 1660-1700
King Charles II returns (May 1660)
Disasters: Bubonic Plague (1665), Anglo-Dutch Wars, Great Fire of London (1666)
1685: Charles II dies, James II (Catholic) succeeds.
1688: Glorious revolution: William III and Mary co-regency.
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The Glorious Revolution of November 1688 was the deposition of James II, king of England, Scotland and Ireland and replacement by his daughter Mary II and her husband, William III of Orange, stadtholder of the Dutch Republic.
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Northern Protestants
12 July
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Write down all kings/leaders and their faith.
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Restoration Literature
During Cromwell (Puritan) theatres were closed (immoral and unholy)
Restoration: revival of the theatre, but French-style: mostly comedies, aimed at nobles and courtiers, whereas Shakespeare wrote plays for people of all social ranks.
Shakespeare’s plays were much more refined, Restoration drama lacked depth and was rather vulgar.
Newspapers
Diaries
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Kinds of diaries
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Diary: types
Personal diary
Travel diary
Diet diary
Sport diary
Health diary
Diaries can be fictional and non-fictional
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2. non-fiction (real fact)
diaries
journal
essays
article
(auto)biography
Kinds of prose
Fiction (imagination)
folktale
short story
novel
Non-fiction (real fact)
diaries
journal
essays
article
(auto)biography
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Important diaries
17th century London was described in a personal way by Samuel Pepys. He wrote about personal matters, daily life, food, entertainment. Because of his diaries we know a lot about what liFe was like during the RESTORATION.
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Samuel Pepys (1633 – 1703)
Writes his diaries between 1660 and 1669
Simple background
Studied at Cambridge (scholarship)
Ill health, which caused him to stop writing (bad eyesight)
No children
Wrote his diaries in code
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1a The Dutch fleet is considerably larger than that of the English (90 to 60)
b The outcome of the battles varied somewhat: the English had the upper hand in the early stages, despite having fewer vessels; then the Dutch proceeded chasing after the English.
2 He divided his fleet into 2 squadrons comprising 40 and 30 vessels.
3a Cheerful (mightily pleased)
b Lines 34 to 35: the account he did give him of the fight and the success it ended with.
c Incorrect. Lines 36 to 37: …… the Duke did give way again and again.
Answers to the assignments on Pepys
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4 Line 46 (all are doubtful of the success)
5 Depressed. News arrived of heavy losses
6 News of the fleet’s successes had been expected.
7 That the Dutch fleet had been chased, and half its vessels (including several flagships) sunk.
8 Everyone was jubilant (rejoyces over head and ears in this good news). Pepys quoted that even a church service was interrupted.
9 His eye for female beauty!
10 Compact style; businesslike, almost journalistic.
Answers to the assignments on Pepys
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Answers to Internet assignments on Pepys
1 Four
2a 1652 to 1654
b 1665 to 1667
c 1672 to 1674
d 1780 to 1784
3 Economic power
4 Raid on the Medway. In June 1667, De Ruyter and his fleet sailed up the Thames and the Medway.
The fleet broke a barricade (at Chatham) and returned to Holland with the English flagship as spoils.