Points which are to be pondered of Neoclassical age

                

Introduction of Neoclassical Age:

•  The word Neoclassical has been derived from Greek " neos" means  ' new ' and Latin "classicus" means  " relating to ancient Greek or Latin principles of the forms of art". 
• It dominated English literature from the Restoration period in 1660 until the end of the 18th century
• It was the movement against the too much use of  individualism and imagination in literature.
• The new classical period of literature can be divided into three distinct stages.

        1. The Restoration period (1660 to 1688)

        2. The Augustan period (1700 to 1750)

        3. Age of Johnson or The Age of Transition (1748 to 1798)

      

•   New classical era gives us better understanding of the literature.   
• This was a time of comfortableness in England.
• People would meet at coffee houses to chat about politics and among other topics .

Many poets of romantic and modern age was much influenced by the poet and their works of Neo classical period.

 

Q.1  Write in brief about your favourite             major/minor - writer/poet of the age.

        

       

       Jonathan Swift.(30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745):

              He was born on 13 November 1667 at Dublin, Island. Died on 19 October 1747 Island. He was an Anglo Irish satirist, essayist and political pamphleter. A very famous writer of Augustine age. His nickname was dean Swift.    

             

            He was employed in helping to prepare temples memories and correspondence for publication.

            During this time Swift drought the battle of the books, a satire responding to critics of temples essay upon ancient and modern learning (1690) to battle was not published until 1704.

    

            In 1704 Swift anonymously released A Tell of Tub.

           It was harshly disapproved of by this publication and his the scorn of Queen Anne of England and the Church of England.

           His  writing earned him or reputation in London, and become editor of the seminar their official paper.

 

         He wrote most cutting and well-known political pamphlets The Conduct of the Alice, an attack on the whigs.

      He returned to Ireland and became dean of St .patrick's  Cathedral in  Dublin in 1713.

  

    Then he focused on his writing, pouring many of his political opinions and experiences into his best non work Gulliver's travels.

    

     Adventure stories made popular by the publication of Daniel defoe's Robinson crusoe a few years earlier. After it lawrence Stern's Adventure of Tristram Shandy.

    Gulliver's Travels remains Swift's most famous work and is a staple of the English literary canon.

     The novel has remained in print consistently since 1726th and has been adapted to picture books comics, and a number of films.

     

 Important works:

A Tale of a Tub

The battle of the Book

 A Description of a city shower

Ode to the Atherian Society

Gulliver's Travels (1726)

A modest proposal (1729)

 A Tale of a Tub:

      

 A Modest proposal:

Gulliver's Travels:

                   

     The main idea behind Gulliver's Travels is  to persuade britonce to reform their own society. Swift uses his gullible narrator, appropriately named Gulliver to show through his number of mically cruel and abused fictional cultures.

  His Death:

         In 1747, Swift suffered from a stroke and lost the ability to speak.

          On October 19, 1747, Swift died. He was laid to rest next to Esther Johnson inside Dublin's St.Patric's Cathedral.

         

Q.2  Tom Jones/ Moll Flanders as picaresque     novels.

   Picarescue novel:

• The word 'picaresque' is derived from the Spanish word 'picaro 'which means a 'rougue'(vagabond).                                             
• The picaresque novel  present the stormy of the adventures of some man or woman who keep on moving from place to place.                      
• Since the novel records the different episodes in his or her journey ,the plot remains loose and episodic.                                        
• There is little if any character development in the main character. Once  a picaro, always picaro. His or her circumstances many change but this rarely result in a change of heart.                                                    
• There is little or not plot. The Story is told in a series of loosely connected adventures or episodes.                                                                 
• The picaro 's story is told with a plainness of language or realism.                                                                  

The behaviour of picaresque hero or heroine stops just short of criminality.                                                                                     

Moll Flanders:

Written by Daniel Dafoe , the picaresque novel Moll Flanders is based upon a true event. Daniel Dafoe  met Elizabeth Atkins at the Newgate prison for numerous allegations. She narrates her life story to Dafoe , upon which he portrays the character of Moll who was born in prison and had a tragic life throughout the novel.

Whatever crimes she commits ,she does that because of the circumstances surrounding surrounding her and not by her own will.

 3. Portrayal of humans in Neo-classical novels.     

                                                          The people of neo classical age were very prompt about their way of living, tradition ,rituals and reputation in society .   

Mostly the things of that period neo classical we have during starting time of Neoclassical age ln have the restoration age that time literature was mainly focused on the Aristocratic family.Those who were upper class families, their focus was on society. They were very much artificial,they were very much luxurious lifestyle.they were always follow French lifestyle.

          The neoclassical literature consider man as a limited being, having limited power. A large number of satires and works of the period attack the man for his pride and advise him to remain content with his limited power of knowledge.