Victorian Literature: Industrial Revolution, Social Change, and Literary Voices
Introduction
This document examines the influence of the Industrial Revolution as a model of historical transformation, the social and political changes reflected in the literature of the period, and the significant contributions of authors like Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Kingsley.
The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
The sudden acceleration of technological and economic development that began in Britain in the second half of the 18th century profoundly
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Herbert Simon’s Bounded Rationality Theory
Herbert Simon’s theory explains how individuals make decisions with limited information and cognitive abilities. This framework is known as “bounded rationality.”
Key Components
- Bounded Rationality: Individuals have limits in thinking and processing information, leading to satisfactory rather than optimal decisions.
- Satisficing: Individuals seek adequate solutions rather than perfect ones, balancing effort and outcome.
- Three-Stage Decision-Making Process:
- Intelligence
Rhetorical Figures Defined: Essential Literary Devices
Understanding Rhetorical Figures
Allegory
A prolonged correspondence of symbols or metaphors.
Alliteration
The repetition of one or more phonemes in different words with a noticeable frequency.
Anadiplosis
Repetition of the last part of a syntactic unit or verse at the beginning of the next.
Anaphora
A series of sentences or sentence fragments that begin in the same way.
Antithesis
Also called contrast, it consists of contrasting two contrary ideas or terms.
Apostrophe
Directly addressing an animate or inanimate
Read MoreShakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest Analyzed
King Lear
This places the play just after the writing of Timon of Athens and before that of Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear was first printed in 1608.
Influences
Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (second edition 1587) tells of the King of Ancient Britain’s unwise division of his kingdom between his three daughters. Holinshed himself drew on Historia Regum Britanniae, written by the twelfth-century historian, Geoffrey of Monmouth.
In 1605, an anonymous play
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[30] Choose a number r larger than any |bi|, and say that the scaled benefit bi0 of keeping application i on the old system is bi0=r, while the scaled benefit of moving it is bi1=r+bi. So our problem is equivalent to that of finding a partition of the applications that maximizes the sum of the scaled benefits minus the sum of pij for all pairs i and j that are split. Define a directed graph G=(V,E) with nodes s,t,v1,v2,..,vn, edges (s,vi),(vi,s) of capacity bi0,(t,vi),(vi,t) of capacity bi1, and
Read MoreLiterary Analysis: Objectivism, Language, and Poeticity
Perspectives on Literary Analysis
Objectivist vs. Anti-Objectivist Approaches
When analyzing art, two distinct attitudes emerge:
- Objectivist Attitudes: These posit that a specific, definable literary object exists within a text. Something inherent in the text makes it literary, an artistic specificity. This definition can also depend on societal context. Aesthetic meaning, from this viewpoint, is based on absolute values intrinsic to the literary text.
- Anti-Objectivist Attitudes: In contrast, these