Class Notes NCERT Solutions for CBSE Students
Question: What is a novel?
Answer: Novel is a modern form of literature born from print, a mechanical invention.
Question: What are major differences between a novel and a manuscript?
Answer:
- Novel is born from print whereas manuscript is handwritten.
- Manuscripts were difficult to prepare and there were only few readers whereas novels are easy to print and are widely read.
Question: Name the countries where the novel first took firm roots.
Answer: The novel first took firm root in England and France.
Question: Who formed the readership for the novels?
Answer: New groups of lower-middle-class people such as shopkeepers, clerks, aristocrats and gentlemanly classes formed the new readership for the novels.
Question: Who was another of Pamela a novel based on exchange of letters between two lovers.
Answer: Samuel Richardson
Question: What was impact of serialization of a novel ?
Answer: It allowed readers to relish the suspense, discuss the character of a novel and live for weeks with its story.
Question: Who was the author of Pickwick Papers which was serialized in 1836 ?
Answer: Charles Dickens
Question: Name a novelist who has written about terrible effects of industrialization on people’s lives and character.
Answer: Charles Dickens
Question: Name any two most important novels written by Charles Dickens. What was the theme of the novels?
Answer: (i) Hard Times (ii) Oliver Twist
In both the novels, Dickens had written about the terrible effects of industrialization on people’s lives and character.
