Literature assigment #1

1. Which 2 readings did you complete from the reading list provided (or from your own selections)?

I read "Heart of Darkness" and and The red-headed league

2. Based on these readings, compare (3 examples) and contrast (3 examples) the works you read with themes from the ppt presentations given in class on Victorian Culture and Literature.

According the two books their Reading are based in war, ingenious, and poverty suffer in the Victorian age, according the power point of Nicko. The culture had terribles consecuences because of the war, like poverty because territorial expansion. In a culture where middle class increase in term of money thaks to industralization and their own ingenious to. The power because main characters are chasing power to put their name in history.
Contrast: At Victorian Culture the women are very important and the books they are not mencioned.

3. Do you feel that the works you read are very good or excellent representations of Victorian Literature? Why/Why Not?

- I think they are excellent representations of this literature, beacuse the authors wrote what they couldn't talk openly at that time. The works were mirrors of what happened with power, money, politicians, illness,etc. And finally the main theme of this books were something forbidden in those times: sex.
4. Would you recommend the readings to friends or family? Why/Why Not?

I strongly recommend the books because are a very important piece of history that authors gave us as a legacy for us and the whole minkind.