and finds Miranda worse, Clegg goes back to town in the middle of the night, to wake a doctor; this time an inquisitive policeman frightens him off. Miranda dies, and Clegg plans to commit suicide.the final section, less than three pages long, Clegg decides that he is not responsible for Miranda s death, that his mistake was kidnapping someone too far above him, socially. As the novel ends, Clegg is thinking about how he will have to do things somewhat differently when he abducts a more suitable girl that he has seen working in Woolworth s.
Comprehension Questions and Tasks
1. What are the chief characteristics of Galsworthy s works? Comment on the most typical features of the Forsyte family. What is the Forsytes attitude to works of art, to love and marriage? Which is the most typical snob in the Forsyte family? Speak on the subject of The Forsyte Saga.
. What is characteristic of Bernard Shaw s dramatic works? Why did Bernard Shaw make society itself the principal character in his play Widowers Houses? Does Bernard Shaw depict the working class people in his play Pygmalion?
. Why is George Wells called the great English writer who looked into the future? What was his attitude towards scientific progress? How did the idea of ​​writing the novel The War of the Worlds come to Wells? What did he aim at? Is the contribution of Wells to world literature? p align="justify">. Say a few words about Somerset Maugham s life. What is the popularity of the novel Of Human Bondage due to? What is the main theme of The Moon and Sixpence? Does Maugham try to be impartial in his attitude to his characters?
. Say what is the meaning of the term the lost generation . How does Richard Aldington see the social scene of prewar England and what is the attitude towards it of the young generation he describes? What is Aldington s altitude towards World War I?
. Briefly tell Cronin s biography. Name the novels written by Cronin before The Citadel. What is the main theme of The Citadel? Comment on the negative characters of the book. What are the most attractive characters in the novel?
. What are the chief contradictions in Graham Greene s works? Give a brief account of his life and literary work. Name the most popular novels of the writer. Comment on the main theme of most of his novels. What motivates the plot of The Quiet American?
. What philosophyc ideas influenced on the creative activity of I. Murdoc h? How does Murdoch combine serious and ridiculous material in her works? How does she reveal the features of her characters in the novel The Bell? Comment on the principles of life, which on Murdoch's opinion give the moral advancement and correct vision? br/>
UNIT 3. ANGRY YOUNG MEN WRITERS. THE GENERATION OF GENERAL DISCONTENT
young men - a new trend in English literature appeared in the fifties of the XX century as a result of disillusionment in post-war bourgeois reality. The writers of the trend criticize contemporary society, but do not show the way out of the impasse.were not angry in the strict sense of the word , they were not all young and not all men either (Doris Lessing and Iris Murdoch are women), but all the members of the group shared a strong fresh viewpoint which had made them unquestionably a new and interesting literary phenomenon of the post-war years . These writers of the fifties, judging by their works and their manner of writing are widely different. At the same time these writers have also much in common. They all belong to the young writers who came into literature after World War II. In different ways and in many voices the younger generation of writers, critics, poets and intelligentsia in the age group of roughly 25 to 35 had been expressing irritation at the scene around them. With the production and immense success of J. Osborne s Look Back in Anger which was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1956, they found a symbol of their dissatisfaction. The term derived from the play itself - Angry Young Men has by now passed into the language. The theatre was an important forum for the angry young men
