Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature Literary Elements

Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature Literary Elements

Genre

Fiction

Setting and Context

Set in Victorian England

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Humorous, informative and intriguing

Protagonist and Antagonist

The central character is Lewis Carroll.

Major Conflict

The main conflict is that human beings are desperately looking forward to comprehending their origin.

Climax

The climax comes when society shifts from speculative human evolution to scientifically proven human evolution.

Foreshadowing

The death of imaginative writings about the human origin is foreshadowed by the evolution of scientifically proven methods that show how people came into being.

Understatement

Scientific discovery about human evolution is understated. Besides the proven facts about man's evolution, many people still believe based on religious beliefs.

Allusions

The story alludes to creation history.

Imagery

The imagery of evolution and creation depicts sight to readers to have an imaginative picture of the origin of man.

Paradox

The paradox of the origin of man is predominant in the text. Besides this book written for children, the reader finds it satirical that evolution is complex for children to comprehend.

Parallelism

There is parallelism between Charles’ Darwin's theory of evolution and cultural beliefs about the origin of humanity.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

Science is personified as the true informer about the evolution of man.

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