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أكـاديـمـي ذهـبـي
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رد: بنات ساعدوني -مادة النثر سنة ثانية الترم الثاني
-------------------------------------------------------- The sentimental novel
Sentimental is (adj) related to feeling or emotion (a book related to a feeling or emotion).
But it is literary meaning it is a type of novel which was very popular in 18th century and was has one main feature which is the excessive feeling and extreme emotion. It is emotional reaction and emotional response.
In 1730 it were started to appear.
Pamela helps us to remember some features of the sentimental novel.
Pamela is the protagonist; she was a servant working in a house of an aristocratic family. She is supposed to be innocent, virtues woman. While she was working with this family, there was a young man admired her, he wants to make a love affair with her, but she did not response to him, because she is a very virtuous woman.
There are so much miserable themes, but at the end we find that Pamela was rewarded for her virtue, she became a great lady. The good is rewarded and the bad is punished at the end of the sentimental novel.
In addition of the excessive feeling, the sentimental novel has a young woman as a protagonist, and a young man who was labeled to be affected by things.
The main character was represented to be young woman in the midst of London and surrounded by danger because of the attempts of seduction of a master .or an orphan ,motherless and fatherless ,facing a lot of problems .The sentimental novel complemented the current social trends towardhumanism and the heightened value of human life. The literature focused on weaker members of society, such as orphans and condemned criminals, and allowed readers to identify and sympathize with them.
The contrast between the heroic woman's actions and her foil's is meant to draw sympathy to the character's plight and to instruct them about expected conduct of women. The domestic novel uses sentimentalism as a tool to convince readers of the importance of its message. It was like a guide book or a conduct novel to teach woman how to face their problems.
Sentimental novel is a conduct book or a domestic novel .it has a certain features. The excessive emotion and the extreme feeling are the most important aspect of this kind of novels.
Also we always find the themes of misery and pain, the main character that is pour and innocent suffers a lot, but he is rewarded at the end. The good is rewarded the bad is punished.
Sentimental novel by the end of the 18th century, sentimental literature faced complaints about the abundance of "cheap sentiment" and its excessive bodily display. Critics, and eventually the public, began to see sentimentalism manifested in society as unhealthy and the genre began declining sharply in popularity.
Critics said that the literary fashion was changed, and this extreme and excessive became unacceptable and unreal .gradually, step by step, it was out of fashion.
But we can't say that sentimental novel in the 18th, did not play a role .in that time people needed it, and it played an important role.
Society was starting to change in life style people didn’t know what to do during this change, it was as a guide.
Immigration, and the changing from agricultural community into industrial community, all these reasons made sentimental novel a guide book.
The Women started to get an opportunity to work; most of them had a job. When they met any male and started to admire him, they needed a book to guide them and to tell them how to protect their virtue. Many parents bought these books.
Society at a certain speech will have a certain need .these novels of the 18th century will supply this need .it is considered as something needed or successful.
The age of the 19th century was the age of reason; emotion and feeling were not used a lot.
The sentimental novel was an action against the age of reason and mined.
It had an important role in the 18th century. The prison system was changed, and many aspects which were discussed in the sentimental novel changed.
Led to social movements calling for change, Instead of the death penalty, popular sentiment called for the rehabilitation of criminals, rather than harsh punishment.[
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Do you think that the works of Jane Austen are a sentimental works?
In fact no, although she speaks about love, marriage but it needs exaggeration. Not everything about emotion is called sentimental.
Having a pour virtue, misery, the virtuous is reworded at the end ….etc are not found in any work of Jane Austen.
Jane Austen's works are not sentimental.
In sense and sensibility, the opinion of Jane Austen towards feeling has the same meaning of sentimentality.
In this novel we have two sisters. They represent reason and heart, all the time as we are reading the novel, we see Jane Austen in a type of a sense and not a type of sensibility.
In some time we find her using balance, sometimes we find her talking about more feeling and in another place we find her talking more about mind or reason. She made a balance between mind and heart, this aspect we did not find in a sentimental novel because it is all against balance and equalization.
Her third novel was written at the age when the sentimental novel was popular, and she wants everybody to understand her attitude, so she made it very clear.
Although a Sentimental Journey carries the features of the sentimental novel, but some critics said that (although it has excessive sense and although the title has the word sentimental, yet it is not about sentiment. it shows us a travel literature. he has a very deep sense of humor and he was making fun of sentiment.
If people are writing a travel narrative, and adding the elements of the sentiment to it, that is the way this book is going to be.)
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